A 76-year-old woman with systemic sclerosis, who had been treated with antibiotics for lung suppuration for 4 weeks, complained of abdominal pain. Abdominal X-rays showed intestinal distension and hepatic portal gas (Figure 1). Plain abdominal computed tomography (CT) scans revealed the presence of gas in the superior mesenteric vein and portal vein, and pneumatosis intestinalis (Figure 2a and ...

cryptoglandular infections, and are the most common proctological disorder requiring immediate surgery in an emergency room. They constitute a frequent reason for surgery in hospitals. According to the cryptoglandular hypothesis suggested by Parks and Eisenhamer, the anal glands situated in the intersphincteric space are the sources of the infections that cause most abscesses. Obstruction of th...

The lymphocyte glycogen content has been measured semi-quantitatively by staining peripheral blood films by the periodic-acid-Schiff (P.A.S.) technique. The high values reported in chronic lymphatic leukaemia, lymphosarcoma, Hodgkin's disease, and infectious mononucleosis have been confirmed. High values have also been found in cases with chronic suppuration, ulcerative colitis, myelomatosis, a...

The above is not difficult to understand when it is remembered how frequent and progressive tubercle of the lungs is in Rangoon, and how futile any treatment (including the open air treatment) is in its arrest. Excluding the evidently tubercular cases, a majority of other enlarged chronically inflamed lymphatic glands remains. They appear to be of syphilitic origin. While plenty of stress is la...

Gtunshot wounds of the extremities, when complicated with compound fractures, and splintering of the bones, are justly regarded as most serious injuries, so much so, that the hope of saving a limb under such circumstances, is seldom entertained ; for, independent of the danger of mortification, which, in the first instance, is always to be apprehended, and the chance of the patient ultimately s...

I HAVE been asked to offer some suggestions as to a suitable way of treating certain fractures of tlle upper and lover limbs as they occur at time seat of war. We realize tllat wounds as imlet witlh during the Boer and Russo-Japanese camLpaigns were very different in cllaracter from those occurring on the riclhly manured fields in Flanders wlhere suppuration so commonly follows. Time point, tlh...