Phaeochromocytoma may present as acute abdomen. This report is of a patient with spontaneous rupture of phaeochromocytoma who presented with abdominal pain and a tender abdominal mass. Ruptured phaeochromocytoma is a rare surgical emergency, with only 30 cases reported in the literature. The classical clinical triad of signs is intense vasoconstriction, tachycardia, and labile blood pressure. C...

INTRODUCTION The unusual event of surgical instrument retention in the abdominal cavity usually occurs after laparotomy. CASE PRESENTATION A 45-year-old African woman from Cameroon with no previous abdominal surgery presented with a three-day history of colicky abdominal pain. Abdominal X-ray showed an opaque, linear object in the lower abdomen. Exploratory laparotomy revealed a Hegar uterine...

Patients with acute abdominal pain often end up in the emergency department for surgical treatment. Ovarian cysts can lead to an abdomen due torsion (twisting) or rupture. In this case report we are going present a 70 y/o female patient left adnexal torsion, presence of ovarian cyst, presented as abdomen. The was enrolled abdomen, nausea and vomiting. After initial evaluation including Computer...

case presentation we report a case where a substantial right ovarian cyst in a 13 year old was removed through a single incision in the superior umbilical fold leaving no discernable scar. the placement of a purse string facilitated safe decompression of the cyst allowing delivery into the wound where the lining was stripped before being returned to the abdomen. conclusions subsequent single in...

adrenal gland pseudocysts are not common conditions, and most of them are nonfunctional and asymptomatic. however, large pseudocysts may causes abdominal discomfort and have compressive effects on adjacent organs. they may rupture spontaneously or after trauma, and lead to retroperitoneal hemorrhage and surgical emergency. herein, we report a case of 21-year-old female who presented with acute ...

0 Dr. Richard Wolfe: We received a call via the paramedic dispatcher that in approximately three minutes we were going to receive a ‘IO-year old female with back and abdominal pain, no obtainable blood pressure, and a heart rate of 140. Due to the patient’s proximity to the hospital and the acuity of the patient’s condition, there was not time for the paramedics to communicate with us via the b...

Two patients, a 53-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman, presented at the Emergency Department of our hospital with

INTRODUCTION This study was designed to describe the time-course and microbiology of colonization of open abdomen in critically ill surgical patients and to study its association with morbidity, mortality and specific complications of open abdomen. A retrospective cohort analysis was done. METHODS One hundred eleven consecutive patients undergoing vacuum-assisted closure with mesh as temporar...

Uncommon and usually silent, small bowel diverticulosis (SBD) is rarely discussed in the surgical literature. Symptomatic SBD most commonly occurs in the jejunum and can lead to serious complications not readily elicited from the history and physical. Given its location within the mesentery, SBD is poorly visualized both radiographically and intraopertively. We present the case ofa 53 year old ...

Castleman's disease (CD) is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder that can involve single or multiple lymph nodes in the body. Especially, the localized form of CD is known to be well-controlled by using a surgical resection. On occasion, the surgeon may confront an abdominal and retroperitoneal mass of unknown origin. Thus, we present this case in which we treated a 16-year-old female patient fo...