Painless abdominal apoplexy.

Abdominal apoplexy resulting in small bowel obstruction.

Abdominal apoplexy is a rare hemorrhagic condition involving the small arteries or veins within the abdominal cavity. A high degree of clinical suspicion, followed by appropriate diagnostic workup and therapeutic intervention, is critical, as nonoperative mortality approaches 100%. Contrary to most previously reported cases, which were associated with hemoperitoneum, we present a patient in whi...

Abdominal apoplexy: two unusual cases of hemoperitoneum.

Abdominal apoplexy, or idiopathic spontaneous intraperitoneal hemorrhage, is a rare and often fatal condition resulting from a variety of disease processes affecting the arterial and venous abdominal vasculature. Preoperative and intraoperative diagnosis and treatment of abdominal apoplexy are challenging. The source of bleeding may remain elusive even after careful autopsy dissection given the...

A painless swelling of the abdominal wall

Case report. A man with a painless swelling of the abdominal wall. A 77-year-old male presented with a progressively increasing painless swelling of the abdominal wall due to nodular fasciitis.

Apoplexy

Simultaneous occurrence of transient resolving thyrotoxicosis due to painless thyroiditis, hypopituitarism and diabetes insipidus following pituitary apoplexy.

Pituitary apoplexy is characterized by a wide spectrum of clinical features, not only in mode of presentation but also in outcome.'-3 We treated a patient with a previously undiagnosed pituitary tumour in whom spontaneous pituitary apoplexy occurred. Subsequently, impairments of both anterior and posterior pituitary function and transient resolving thyrotoxicosis secondary to painless (silent) ...