Rectum lipoma incarcerated in anus as a cause of abundant rectorrhagia

Citrullus colocynthis as the Cause of Acute Rectorrhagia

Introduction. Citrullus colocynthis Schrad. is a commonly used medicinal plant especially as a hypoglycemic agent. Case Presentation. Four patients with colocynth intoxication are presented. The main clinical feature was acute rectorrhagia preceeded by mucosal diarrhea with tenesmus, which gradually progressed to bloody diarrhea and overt rectorrhagia within 3 to 4 hours. The only colonoscopic ...

Pain in the Rectum and Anus.

[Congenital anomalies of the anus and rectum].

There is confusion in the minds ofmany clinicians about the exact anatomical features of the individual lesions of anorectal anomalies and therefore about the way in which they should be treated. This arises partly because some, like the covered anus, are visible in the perineum, whereas in others part of the anomaly is visible, for example, in a low vaginal fistula, but the more important part...

Diseases of the Rectum and Anus

F.R.C.S., and F. Swinford Edwards, F.R.C.S. Second edition. Pp. xix., 324. London: J. & A. Churchill. 1892. The surgery of the rectum has undergone considerable development during late years, and books that were written some years ago have to undergo much alteration to bring them UP to date. The present edition has been carefully revised by the authors, and includes the most approved modern met...

Surgery of the Anus, Rectum and Colon

WHEN the importance of the thymus to immunological development was discovered in the early 1960's it was appreciated that certain thymic functions may be mediated by humoral factors or hormones. A number of different peptides have been extracted from thymic tissue and there is a large, often controversial, literature dealing with their effects and possible role in T-lymphocyte development. Mode...