objective: to detect whether the preoperative combined administration of rectal diclofenac and paracetamol is superior to placebo or rectal diclofenac alone for pain after abdominal hysterectomy. materials and methods: ninety female patients (american society of anesthesiologists (asa) physical status i-ii), scheduled for abdominal hysterectomy were recruited to this double blind trial and were...

Gastrointestinal (GI) disorders, including functional bowel diseases such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohnʹs disease (CD) and colitis, afflict more than one in five Americans, particularly women. While some GI disorders may be controlled by diet and pharmaceutical medications, others are poorly moderated by conventional treatments. Symptoms of GI d...

Although conditions leading to bicytopenia and pancytopenia secondary to infiltrative diseases of the bone marrow are seen, a profound anemia or hemorrhages are frequently observed in such cases. As bone marrow infiltrations may be associated with primary hematological diseases such as leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma, rarely they may also be associated with solid tumor metastases. Here we have pr...

Autoimmune diseases may appear as paraneoplastic syndromes during the course of a neoplastic disease, the most common being dermatomyositis/ polymyositis. The association of systemic sclerosis and cancer is not clear. The case of a 56-year-old male with rectal cancer and systemic sclerosis where the coexistence of the two diseases was closely related, so that scleroderma was considered a parane...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of rectal spirochaetosis in homosexual men attending a sexually transmissible diseases clinic and investigate the association between their presence and sexual practices, HIV infection and enteric flora. DESIGN The study included 144 male homosexual subjects who each completed a questionnaire, underwent physical examination, proctoscopy and investigations...

OBJECTIVE Measurement of rectal temperature is the most common method and considered gold standard for obtaining body temperature in dogs. So far, no study has been performed comparing agreement between rectal and auricular measurements in a large case series. The purpose of the study was to assess agreement between rectal and auricular temperature measurement in normothermic, hypothermic, and ...

BACKGROUND Lymphogranuloma venereum is a sexually transmitted disease caused by Chlamydia Trachomatis genovars L1, L2, L3 and may present with diverse symptoms, mimicking inflammatory, ischemic, infectious neoplastic processes. CASE PRESENTATION A male in his forties was examined at the gastrosurgical department due to two weeks’ history of rectal discharge one year anal tumour. Examination rev...

Background: Teratoma is a tumor comprised of three germinal layers classified as mature or immature in most cases. Most solid teratomas are benign but may turn malignant; therefore, complete resection advised these They usually occur women. Primary rectal infrequent, and only few cases have been described the literature. Teratomas common cystic that rise ovary, testicle, retroperitoneum. can al...

Screening for extra-genital Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections is a crucial component for sexually transmitted diseases management, even if at present days no commercial methods have been approved for use on pharyngeal and rectal specimens by the US FDA or have received the conformity CE marking. Here we report the analytical sensitivities of the Versant CT/GC 1.0 assay ...