INTRODUCTION Residual appendicitis involving the stump of the appendix has been well described in the literature in the past. CASE REPORT We report the case of a 43 year old male with acute onset of abdominal pain who had undergone an appendicectomy ten years previously. Ultrasound revealed the presence of an inflamed tubular structure. Subsequent laparotomy and histology confirmed that this ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the resistance of manual suture with that of mechanical suture immediately after the suture of the left bronchial stump of dogs submitted to pneumonectomy. METHODS A total of 15 mixed-breed dogs of both genders, each weighing between 8 and 23 kg, were randomly divided into 2 groups. In group I (n = 7), the bronchial stump was sutured manually (the Sweet method) and, in gr...

Interface stresses and stump shape were measured during sessions over a two-month interval on a trans-tibial amputee subject. Results from thirteen transducer sites monitored during four sessions showed greater interface pressure changes over time at anterior sites than at lateral or posterior locations. There was a trend of decreased pressure with stump swelling and increased pressure for stum...

CASE 1 A 27-year-old man had epigastric pain, relieved by antacids, occurring two hours after meals, for three years. A clinical diagnosis of peptic ulcer was made. At laparotomy a hard white thickening of the pylorus was found. Partial gastrectomy with closure of the duodenal stump and anastomosis of the stomach and jejunum was performed. Naked-eye examination revealed a localized thickening u...

A series of patients with carcinoma of the cervical stump in relation to age, clinical stage, histopathology, changes in relative incidence, treatment outcome and long-term survival, were studied and the findings were compared with matched controls that have an intact uterus and cancer of the cervix. Of 8,028 women treated for invasive cervical carcinoma between 1959-2004, 161 were diagnosed wi...

Part of a large scale investigation of amputees initiated at the Orthopaedic Clinics of Uppsala University involved corollary considerations of stump healing in experimental animals. Since the amputationofan extremity is attended with a considerablealterationofthe circulation, the problem was investigated first from a circulatory standpoint. In amputees with stump disturbances Leriche (1950) ha...

A series of 9 patients have experienced hemisphere and retinal ischemia at an interval after occlusion of appropriate internal carotid arteries. All had radiological evidence of a persisting proximal stump to the occluded artery and, in most, pathological evidence of thrombotic material attached to atheromatous lesions within the stump. Thromboembolism from the stump via the anastomotic supply ...

BACKGROUND Morton’s Neuroma is a common condition, often requiring surgical intervention. The success rate for resolution of symptoms, without complications, is commonly reported to be 85%. Complications can include stump neuroma, adhesive neuritis, and chronic pain syndrome. Endoscopic decompression of the neuroma has been reported but there have been no randomized and blinded studies reported...

With the development of the patellar-tendon-bearing prosthesis by the University of California at Berkeley, many new advantages in simplicity, comfort, and function were available to the below-knee amputee. However, there still exists the problem of concentrated pressures over small areas of the stump. The original design of the patellar-tendonbearing prosthesis was intended to distribute the l...

background: coverage of the bronchial stumps (bss) with adjacent tissues can improve healing and reduce bronchial complications in complex thoracic surgery. there is no evidence for the application of human amnion allograft for prevention of air leak from the bs. the comparison of the amniotic membrane (am) and pleural patch for bs healing after lobectomy in dogs was our aim in this study. mate...