Intestinal Volvulus—Ultrasonography Diagnosis

Diagnosis of Intestinal Amoebiasis with Indirect Fluorescent Antibody Test

SUMMARY The results of direct stool examination in 102 watery and bloody diarrhea patients were compared with the presence of antibodies against Entamoeba histolytica with Indirect Fluorescent Antibody Test. Besides 22 healthy individuals included in this study as control group. It was found that 22 patients (21.5%) with a sera titre higher than 1/320 bad only 9 (8.8%) positive E. Histolytica ...

Diagnosis of Intestinal Tuberculosis

Intestinal tuberculosis occurs as an ulcerative lesion complicating pulmonary tuberculosis, as a hypertrophic mass, and as a miliary form associated with tuberculous peritonitis. The ulcerative lesion is the most common of the three varieties and its diagnosis can be made with a high degree of accuracy. The chief method of diagnosis is roentgenological and its development has been due chiefly t...

Clinical Diagnosis of Intestinal Tuberculosis *

It has become almost axiomatic to believe that intestinal tuberculosis cannot be diagnosed clinically in the majority of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis who have this cofnplication. Of late, the belief is apparently becoming equally prevalent that roentgenological examination of the intestinal tract enables one to make a correct diagnosis in from 95 to 100 per cent of instances, indeed, wh...

Diagnosis of Acute Intestinal Obstruction.

The differential diagnosis of intestinal obstruction.

It seems hopeless to urge a more precise definition of terms, yet this is needed. The word obstruction is commonly used to mean luminal blockage with active peristalsis; but some prefix the adjective mechanical, apparently using obstruction in a generic context. The word ileus is derived from the Greek eileos meaning a coil or a twist. Many use this to mean muscular paralysis. Yet our latest me...