OBJECTIVE To characterize complications of prostate cancer therapy and operative management in patients referred to our institution for surgical intervention. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data was abstracted from a retrospectively collected single surgeon database at a large tertiary care referral-based medical center. Variables included age, prostate cancer therapy, complication(s) and their manage...

Obstetric injury is the most frequent cause of acquired rectovaginal fistulas but infection and other forms of trauma may also result in these fistulas. After an obstetric injury, the fistula may be manifest immediately but more frequently appears 7–10 days after delivery. Fistulas occur most often after a thirdor fourth-degree laceration. Inadequate repair, breakdown of the repair, or infectio...

The concomitant presence of abnormal connection from three aortic valsalva sinuses to cardiac chambers is a rare complication of native aortic Brucella endocarditis. This case report presents a 37-year-old Iranian female patient who had native aortic valve Brucella endocarditis complicated by periannular abscess formation and subsequent perforation to multi-cardiac chambers associated with cong...

following a roadside bomb blast. A traumatic pneumothorax necessitated the insertion of a chest drain, and a laparotomy revealed multiple liver lacerations and ureteric contusion. While the patient was awaiting further ureteric surgery after a percutaneous nephrostomy, the chest drain was removed. One week later, limegreen serosanguinous fluid began to leak from the drain site, while the patien...

BACKGROUND Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is highly accurate for the depiction of both the primary tract of fistula and abscesses, in patients with perianal disease. In addition, MRI can be used to evaluate the activity of fistulas, which is a significant factor for determining the therapeutic strategy. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine the usefulness of diffusion-weighted (DW) MRI f...

AIM To establish and evaluate an experimental porcine model of fistula-in-ano. METHODS Twelve healthy pigs were randomly divided into two groups. Under general anesthesia, the experimental group underwent rubber band ligation surgery, and the control group underwent an artificial damage technique. Clinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and histopathological evaluation were performed on the...

THE ANTEMORTEM diagnosis of pulmonary arteriovenous fistula was made for the first time by Smith and Horton in 1939.1 The lesion was suspected from the appearance of the chest x-ray and subsequently proved by inj ection of contrast media into an arm vein with visualization of the abnormal vascular communication in the right lung. Since then many such lesions have been suspected from clinical fi...

Crohn's disease is a type of chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) of unknown etiology that may affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract from mouth to anus and shows extra-intestinal involvement. It characteristically shows skip lesions. This case report reported in 2014 describes a middle age Pakistani male known to have documented evidence of significant crohn's disease since past 18 ...

Intracranial multiple dural arteriovenous fistulas (MDAVFs) are rare lesions that are difficult to treat. The key factors involved in the development of MDAVFs remain unknown. At present, the majority of reports on intracranial MDAVFs are confined to case reports and small case series, and thus understanding of MDAVFs is limited. The current review assesses the available literature to date with...