Acute Appendicitis *A Bristol University Post-graduate Lecture.

A Lump in the Throat *A Bristol University post-graduate lecture.

Four Hunterian Lectures and Bristol–1990

In 1990 Bristol had the signal honour and distinction of being associated with four Hunterian Professors and their lectures. Mr Clarke was a graduate of Bristol University and carried out his research work in the University of Bristol. Mr Miller and Mr Scott carried out their research in Bristol and are currently Senior Registrars on the South West rotation. Mr Nicholson carried out his researc...

ACUTE APPENDICITIS DUE TO METASTASIS OF PROSTATIC CARCINOMA

A 70 year old male presented with right lower quadrant pain and anorexia for about 72 hours prior to hospital admission. He underwent laparotomy with impression of acute appendicitis. The operative finding was an inflamed tumoral appendix without appendicular base involvement, and appendectomy was done. The patient had an uneventful post-op course. Due to the pathology report of prostatic ...

Diagnostic Accuracy of Acute Appendicitis by Ultrasound in Hospital Emergency

Background Acute appendicitis is the most common medical condition requiring immediate abdominal surgery.Medical ultrasound is a non-intrusive, non-expensive and available diagnostic method. In this study, the accuracy of ultrasound in diagnosis of acute appendicitis in hospital emergency was evaluated. Materials and Methods This retrospective cohort study was performed at Ahvaz Imam Khomeini h...

Basal Narcosis *A Bristol University Post-graduate Lecture.

ized in 1869 by a French physician, Claude Bernard, who was the first to give a hypodermic injection of morphine as a basal narcotic before administering ether or chloroform. As with the methods of anaesthesia itself, however, very little further real progress was made until the last twenty or thirty years. During the past ten years it has become the exception to administer an anaesthetic witho...