44-year-old female with massive chronic tubo-ovarian abscess complicated by hepatic portal venous gas (HPVG). She presented to the emergency department of our hospital with a diffusely tender abdomen and 2 weeks history of frequent non-bloody loose stools. She had a relevant past medical history of poorly controlled type 1 diabetes mellitus and hypertension. Abdominal computerized tomography re...

OBJECTIVE To study the microbial etiology of tubo-ovarian abscess (TOA). METHODS We recruited 11 women in Nairobi, Kenya who failed antibiotic therapy alone and required surgical drainage of a presumptive TOA. Pus from the nine abscesses and two pyosalpinges were collected and cultured for aerobic, facultative and anaerobic microorganisms. RESULTS Eleven women suspected of having a TOA were...

Most abdominal masses in the pediatric population derive from ovaries. Ovarian can occur all ages, although their incidence, clinical presentation and histological distribution vary among different age groups. Children adolescents may develop non-neoplastic ovarian lesions, such as functional cysts, endometrioma, torsion, abscess lymphangioma well neoplasms, which are divided into germ cell, ep...

AIMS To analyse the clinical presentation, clinicopathological correlation and management of complex ovarian cysts in newborn and infants. MATERIALS AND METHODS Over a period of 6 years (2009-2015), 25 newborns who were diagnosed to have ovarian cyst on antenatal ultrasound, were followed up. We collected data in the form of clinical features, radiological findings, pathology and mode of trea...

in spite the emergence of potent and broad spectrum antibiotics and recent advances in bronchoscopy and pulmonary physiotherapy, still there is a high rate of morbidity and mortality because of lung abscess. the objective of this study is the indication of risk factors, which have undesirable effects on the prognosis of lung abscess. in a retrospective study, all cases of lung abscess who was c...

Musculoskeletal tuberculosis accounts for 1-2% of all types of tuberculosis. Tubercular abscess of the chest wall accounts for 1-5% of all cases of musculoskeletal tuberculosis. Herein, we report a case of tubercular abscess of the chest wall. The occurrence of caries rib and cold abscess of the chest wall with concomitant pulmonary tuberculosis, and tubercular lympha-denitis of neck and medias...