INTRODUCTION Strangulation of the penis and scrotum by a constricting object has been rarely reported. AIM To describe a man with penoscrotal strangulation caused by a steel ring and its successful removal. METHODS A 28-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 7-hour history of a steel ring lodged at the base of his penis and scrotum. Removal was accomplished with the assis...

Purpose: Femoral hernia is a kind of ventral hernia that surgeons commonly encounter, second in frequency only to inguinal hernia. Femoral hernias often require emergency surgery because of incarceration or strangulation of the intestine. In addition, intestinal resection may need to be considered based on intestinal viability. Definitive preoperative diagnosis and strategic planning for surger...

In 19 patients with closed-loop intestinal obstruction, including 16 patients with strangulating obstruction, the findings at examination with computed tomography (CT) were retrospectively correlated with the surgical and pathologic findings and evaluated by two radiologists. Signs of closed-loop obstruction, present in 15 patients, were associated with the configuration of the incarcerated loo...

Laryngeal fractures occur mainly in the context of cervical trauma, hanging, or strangulation. Nontraumatic laryngeal fractures are rare and there are few reports in the literature. We present two cases of nontraumatic laryngeal fractures evaluated in our service.

This study is based on the hypothesis that occult cartilaginous fractures of thyroid cartilage (TC) may result in asymmetry framework. Justification this was provided by an estimation prevalence TC a consecutive postmortem group. The findings were then compared to three cases nonfatal manual strangulation and one case survival blunt trauma neck. images from two-year sample institutional compute...

A giant inguinoscrotal hernia is typically associated with a low risk of bowel obstruction or strangulation. When the complicated acute gastric perforation, it an exceedingly rare clinical entity. The operative strategy may be definitive at index surgery staged. technical challenge severity peritoneal contamination contradicting mesh placement, coupled loss domain. Herein we report 58-year-old ...

Gastric necrosis in association with strangulation of a paraoesophageal hernia is a rare but life-threatening condition. The present article reports a case of strangulated paraoesophageal hernia with gastric necrosis in an obese woman treated successfully by acute sleeve gastrectomy.