HEPATIC PUS IN THE PERITONEUM.

Perforated Hepatic Hydatid Cyst into the Peritoneum with Mild Symptoms

Rupture into the abdominal cavity is a rare but serious complication of hydatid disease that necessitates emergency surgical intervention. We present herein a case with mild abdominal symptoms due to hydatid cyst rupture into the peritoneum after trauma. A 24-year-old man was admitted to the emergency room with mild abdominal pain. His symptoms had started after a fall four days earlier. Ultras...

Large Hepatic Abscess Bursting into the Peritoneum: Laparotomy

A Bania, aged about 40 years, came to hospital stating that he had suffered for about six months with pain and swelling in the right side, fever, and asthenia. For this he had been "fired " by the village practitioner with no sparing hand, his condition remaining in statu quo ante until three weeks ago, when he got sudden severe pain, with rigors and fever, followed by symptoms of collapse. Inc...

The Peritoneum

Pneumo-Peritoneum in the Investigation of the Right Costo-Hepatic Area

The authors wish to draw attention' to the great value of pneumoperitoneum in the z-ray investigation of lesions in the right costo-hepatic area. This area is notorious for its diagnostic problems, especially in countries where amoebic hepatitis is common. The customary radiological proceedings of fluoroscopy and the taking of a film may still leave problems unsolved. The further elucidation of...

Physaloptera Larvæ in the Peritoneum

Sir.?Major Milne ends liis interesting article in the September number of the Indian Medical Gazette hv ask innmo to account for the presence of Phy.tafnnf.era larva; in the peritoneum. As Major Milne states, I received from him for identification a piece of peritoneum from a squirrel containing a number of cysts in each of which lay a Physn'optera larva; and shortly afterwards some adult, memb...