the goal of this prospective study was to determine die prevalence of certain surgical findings in iranian patients with appendicitis in one of our surgical centers, including: position of the appendix, rate of true appendicitis, perforation, and peritonitis. duplication was observed in 4%, surface exudate in 52%, gangrenous necrosis in 27%, swelling in 79%, appendix in the left lower quadrant ...

Inguinal bladder hernia is a rare clinical condition, with 1–3% of all inguinal hernias involving the bladder. Any portion of the bladder may herniate, from a small portion or a diverticulum to most of the bladder. We present a 55-year-old male with an intermittent right scrotal mass of 6 months’ duration. The mass lesion protruded through the right inguinal canal before voiding and reduced aft...

Renal cell carcinoma is an uncommon tumor in pediatric population.It is important for the clinicians to know its diagnosis as the management of renal cell carcinoma RCC is different from Wilms Tumor which is the most common tumor encountered in children .The management is surgical resection with no proven role for chemo or radiotherapy so far. Here, we present a case of seven-year-old male chil...

Case Description- A two- year-old female goat with a dark mass on the left hoof was referred to veterinary clinic of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman.Clinical Findings- A large black and hemorrhagic tumor-like tissue was observed on the left hoof. The epidermis was intact and hairless.Treatment and Outcome- Considering the good body condition of the patient, the mass was removed surgically. ...

Objective: to outline the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative management of patients who present with a pelvic mass suspicious for malignancy. Options: these guidelines discuss the surgical procedures involved in the adequate staging and debulking of the adnexal mass, the role of the gynaecologist and gynaecologic oncologist, and the timing of surgery in relation to the use of chemo...

Figure 1 – Transthoracic echocardiography: giant eco-dense mass occupying the entire right atrium (Panel A) and severely limiting tricuspid valve inflow (Panel B). Atrial wall and visceral pericardium (arrows) A 75-year-old man underwent elective biological aortic valve replacement. Two weeks after surgery, transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) showed a small pericardial effusion. On the followi...

Despite significant advances in image-guided therapy, surgeons are still too often left with uncertainty when deciding to remove tissue. This binary decision between removing and leaving tissue during surgery implies that the surgeon should be able to distinguish tumor from healthy tissue. In neurosurgery, current image-guidance approaches such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) combined with ...

A 59-year old man was admitted to the emergency department with chest pain. He denied experiencing fever, breathlessness or cough. He had undergone coronary artery bypass surgery 4 years previously. Computed tomography showed a heterogeneous mass with wavy, striped areas (Fig. 1). Thoracotomy showed a foreign body. It proved to be a surgical sponge. Figure 1: Axial (A) and coronal (B) chest com...

The purpose of the research conducted was to develop a real-time surgical simulator for preoperative planning of surgery in congenital heart disease. The main problem simulating procedures on cardiac morphology is the need for a large degree of detail and simulation speed. In combination with a demand for physically realistic real-time behaviour this gives us tradeoffs not easily balanced. The ...

Sarcoidosis is a systemic inflammatory disease of an unknown etiology. Skin is involved in 25% of all cases, and 29% of them present as a scar sarcoidosis. Asymptomatic old-scar masses are generally regarded as a foreign body reaction by surgeons and often result in excisional biopsy. We describe a case of a patient who developed sarcoidosis in a 34-year-old appendectomy scar and adjacent ingui...