Appendiceal hemorrhage is an extremely rare cause of lower gastrointestinal bleeding, often lacking specific clinical manifestations and therefore easily missed. Due to the anatomical location of the ...

THE term "emphysematous gastritis" has been employed to designate an infection characterized by the presence of numerous small gas bubbles throughout the wall of the stomach. The lesion is closely ...

Appendicitis is one of the most common causes of acute abdominal surgery in children. The clinical course of appendicitis ranges from simple to complex appendicitis. The mechanisms underlying the ...

bDepartment of Surgery, Skåne University Hospital Malmö, Lund University, Lund, Sweden Appendicitis is the most common surgical emergency globally, and surgery remains the mainstay of treatment in ...

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We report a case of phlegmonous gastritis that followed an episode of acute pharyngitis. A 21-year-old man visited our emergency room because of intense epigastric pain. Fourteen days before the visit ...

Phlegmon is a medical term describing an inflammation of soft tissue that spreads under the skin or inside the body. It’s usually caused by an infection and produces pus. The name phlegmon comes from ...

ABSTRACT: Necrosis of the stomach is rare. It occurs when there is vascular anomalies, gastric volvulus or her-niation and in infectious gastritis. We report a case in which infectious gastritis leads ...

Department of Visceral Surgery, University Hospital Hassan II-Fes, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Fez, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco. Necrosis of the stomach is rare. It ...

III. DEFINITIONS Hepatobiliary scintigraphy is a radionuclide diagnostic imaging study (including planar imaging, SPECT, or hybrid imaging such as SPECT/CT) that evaluates hepatocellular function and ...