INTRODUCTION Foreign body ingestion is a frequent emergency occurrence. Serious complications, although rare, include pharyngooesophageal perforation, aorto-oesophageal fistula and deep neck infection. MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective review was performed of all cases of foreign body ingestion requiring hospitalization between 1989 and 2011, in a tertiary Hospital. Cases complicated by de...

ABSTRACT Mikko Ovaska. Complications in Ankle Fracture Surgery. Helsinki Bone and Joint Research Group, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland. Helsinki 2014. Ankle fractures are among the most common surgically treated fractures. The operative treatment of this fracture may be associated with several complications. The most freq...

primary sternal osteomyelitis is a rare clinical entity generally caused by staphylococcus aureus or pseudomonas aeruginosa.although rare it carries significant morbidity including spread to mediastinal structures and even mortality. diagnosis is generally made on clinical suspicion in a patient with and anterior chest pain and swelling, fever and raised inflammatory markers. management is gene...

abstract background: experience with vesicoureteral reflux (vur) differs in different centers and there are plenty of controversies. the aim of this study was to evaluate the outcome of primary vur complications and the rate of recurrence of uti. methods: the medical charts of all infants and children with primary vur who were followed up by two nephrologists were reviewed. during 19 years (198...

Descending necrotizing mediastinitis (DNM) is a potentially lethal disease that originates from a deep neck infection (DNI); it is often associated with an immunocompromised state. Hyperimmunoglobulin E syndrome (HIES) is an extremely rare complex immune deficiency characterized by recurrent abscesses of staphylococcal etiology. A rare case of a 34-year-old woman wherein HIES putatively promote...

We report a case of potentially fatal cervical necrotizing fasciitis and descending necrotizing mediastinitis due to deep neck infection in a 66-year-old male patient with no history or evidence of immunocompromising disorders. On admission, he had painful neck movements and the skin over his neck was red, hot and tender. A computerized tomography (CT) scan of his neck and chest showed evidence...

Critically ill patients in intensive care units are subject to many complications associated with therapy. Many of these complications are health care-associated infections and are related to indwelling devices, including ventilator-associated pneumonia, central line-associated bloodstream infection, catheter-associated urinary tract infection; surgical site infection, venous thromboembolism, d...

introduction: thyroid gland is well known to resist infections by rich blood supply and lymphatic drainage,   high glandular content of iodine which can be bactericidal and separation of the gland from other structures of neck. primary thyroid abscess resulting from acute suppurative thyroiditis (ast) is an unusual type of head and neck infection and it is a rare condotion in children so that p...