Rhabdomyosarcoma Causing Acute Retention

Pancreatic Metastasis of Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma Presenting as Acute Pancreatitis

Primary Retrovesical Hydatid Cyst causing Acute Urinary Retention in a Young Patient : A Rare Presentation

Retrovesical cysts are very rare. Definitive preoperative diagnosis is difficult in many cases. Hydatid cyst can present as a retrovescial cyst, which can cause a diagnostic dilemma. We present a case of primary retrovesical hydatid cyst mimicking a prostatic utricle cyst, presenting as acute urinary retention in a 29 year old young male patient. Definitive pre-operative diagnosis was difficult...

Acute and Chronic Retention.

By acute retention is meant a sudden and complete inability to pass urine. A chronic retention means that the patient is unable to empty the bladder, though micturition is still possible, and may even be apparently quite free. The quantity unevacuated from the bladder is termed residual urine, and this may vary in amount from a few ounces in cases of minor obstruction, to two or more pints in a...

Disulfiram Poisoning Causing Acute Encephalopathy

There remains no doubt that primary abscesses are due to a hematogenous spread due to bacteremia and secondary abscess occurs as a result of direct spread of infection from an adjacent structure [2,3]. A case of primary psoas abscess with spondylodiscitis was published earlier by us [4]. Hernández-Ros, et al. commented that all authors must use the recent classification criteria and accordingly...

A Case of Pelvic Cellulitis Causing Retention of Urine

strual discharge for the last three months, and thinking herself to be pregnant, she went to a native dliye (nurse) to have herself examined. The dliye examined her and assured her that she was not pregnant, but that owing to some internal disease the catamenia was suppressed, and in order to reproduce them she gavo the patient some soft paste-like stuff to put around the uterus. This produced ...