"Painless" Intussusception

Intussusception Causing Painless Hematochezia in an Adult

A 63-year-old woman was hospitalized after 2 episodes of mucoid, maroon-colored stools. She denied any prior or current episodes of abdominal pain, vomiting, fever, or recent travel. She was hemodynamically stable without significant drop in hematocrit. Colonoscopy revealed a 5-cm polypoid mass in the ascending colon with ulceration and fat eroding through the mucosa (Figure 1). The colonicsegm...

Painless Childbirth

Painless Childbirth

on in France. The book represents a lay agitation for " twilight sleep," and describes the experiences of several women who have been delivered at Freiburg. From the obstetrical point of view, the principal interest lies in the three appendices where Kronig and Gauss give the details of the method and meet the various arguments which have been launched against " twilight sleep." The writers evi...

Painless Plugins

Using plugins as a mechanism for evolving applications is appealing, but current implementations are limited in scope. Plugins are optional components which can be used to enable the dynamic construction of flexible and complex systems, passing as much of the configuration management effort as possible to the system rather than the user, allowing graceful upgrading of systems over time without ...

Painless Childbirth

very important point of view of the woman herself, and it consequently cannot be ignored. The book is a glorification of the Franen Klinik at Freiburgh run by Drs. Kronig and Gauss, and gives the detailed experiences of many women who have gone through the Klinik. It is written in a somewhat sensational style, but the fact remains that there exists in the United States a propaganda among women ...