Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the rectum is a rare disease. A 59-year-old man presented with SCC of the middle rectum located 10 cm from the anus. The stage of the tumor was revealed to be T3N+M0. The patient received a combined treatment with cisplatin and fluorouracil in concomitance with external radiation therapy. He then underwent an anterior resection of the rectum. The postoperative h...

Dieulafoy's lesion is a relatively rare but serious cause of gastrointestinal bleeding. It usually involves the upper gastrointestinal tract. However, it has recently been reported in different regions of the gastrointestinal tract, including the rectum. Here, we report the case of a female patient who presented with fresh bleeding per rectum for 1 day with low hemoglobin level. Colonoscopy rev...

Cancer has been one of the haunted conditions in the society though there have been treatment methods developed to cure. External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT) is one such methods of cancer treatment. During the treatment plan phase, the organs at risk in the respective cancer context need to be segmented from acquired medical image. In this work, rectum is segmented from CT images and segmente...

The prevalence of gonococcal infection of the rectum and pharynx in 239 consecutive women with gonorrhoea presenting as named contacts was 47% and 10% respectively. In 2% of all patients the rectum and pharynx were each the sole sites of infection. Treatment failure occurred in three patients given a single dose of aqueous procaine penicillin 2.4 megaunits intramuscularly, two of whom had recta...

Two patients are presented in whom ischaemic colitis followed some years after abdomino-perineal excision of the rectum for carcinoma. The first patient was a young man without evidence of arterial disease and the second patient suffered from auricular fibrillation, thought to be due to ischaemic heart disease. Ligation of the inferior mesenteric artery in the operation of abdomino-perineal exc...

Foreign body rectum may cause serious consequences, especially in psychologically vulnerable patients, In critical conditions like pandemic COPVID-19, when depression, fear boredom, loneliness such incidence occur. An 18 years old young male presented emergency with a foreign rectum. He was laborer on daily wages. During the COVID-19 pandemic, loneliness, anxiety, and unemployment have exposed ...

Cervical cancer radiotherapy on the Linac aircraft uses a 6 MV energy photon beam with 3 Dimension Conformal Radiotherapy (3DCRT) and Intensity Modulation Radiation Therapy (IMRT) techniques. planning 3DCRT IMRT techniques is then compared by analyzing dose distribution or target volume (PTV) coverage through Conformity Index (CI) Homogeneity (HI) Organ At Risk (OAR) where risk organ that consi...

1. The aim of the investigation was to determine whether the adrenoceptors of the chick rectum preparation complied with Ahlquist's classification; phentolamine (0.1 mug/ml) and propranolol (0.05 mug/ml) were used as specific antagonists of alpha- and beta-adrenoceptors, respectively.2. Propranolol antagonized phenylephrine, isoprenaline and noradrenaline in the chick rectum preparation, althou...

IT iS proposed to present a case of impalement injury of the rectum and to review briefly the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of such cases. From a study of the literature, it appears that these injuries are not very common. One of the earliest reviews of this subject was in 1896, when Van Hook of Chicago analysed fifty-eight cases, two of which were his own. Stiassney and Tillman added fur...