Tuberculosis of the gallbladder is an extremely rare entity with only few case reports in the literature. Gallbladder tuberculosis is often found in association with gallstones or cystic duct obstruction and it may be a part of miliary tuberculosis, abdominal tuberculosis, primary isolated gallbladder tuberculosis and as acalculous cholecystitis in immunocmpromised patients. Preoperative diagno...

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY WERE i) to evaluate the efficacy of computed tomography (CT) imaging in diagnosing the presence, level, degree, and cause of intestinal obstruction, and the role of CT in detecting presence of complications; ii) to assess impact of CT in decision making and management (surgical/conservative); iii) to correlate CT findings with intra operative findings whene...

Superior mesenteric artery syndrome (SMAS) is a specific type of duodenal obstruction marked by blockage the inferior part duodenum as result compression between superior (SMA) and aorta. Depletion fatty pad causes this complication. In current study, we describe case SMAS involving 36-year-old lady who presented with postprandial pain, weight loss, hematemesis. The patient was investigated for...

Intestinal pseudo-obstruction is a condition in which the intestine’s ability to push food through is reduced. It often leads to the dilation of the various parts of the bowel. It can be idiopathic or inherited from a parent, or caused by another disease. We report a rare case of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in a 3-year-old boy who referred with acute abdominal pain, and was lat...

introduction ileal diverticulum is a rare disease that presents with complications such as diverticulitis. case presentation we present an 81-year-old man with partial small bowel obstruction having abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting for 48 hours and a mobile abdominal mass. after ct scan, exploratory laparoscopy and small bowel resection was done with primary anastomosis. conclusions when adhesi...

Intestinal pseudo-obstruction (IPO) is a rare complication of celiac disease (CD) and has often resulted in laparotomy for diagnosis. We report an adult case of CD presenting as IPO with severe protein calorie malnutrition (PCM) and negative endomysial as well as tissue transglutaminase antibodies. This is the first case report of CD presenting with combined IPO, severe PCM, negative first-line...

OBJECTIVES Enterolithiasis (multiple calcifications of intraluminal meconium) is a rare, prenatal ultrasonographic finding. In this study, our aim was to evaluate the prenatal diagnostic features and discuss the management of the patients. METHODS The data of two cases of prenatally diagnosed fetal enterolithiasis were collected from ultrasound scan, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and neona...

Abstract Background Congenital peritoneal encapsulation (CPE) is a rare, congenital entity in which the small bowel surrounded by an accessory membrane. This condition usually asymptomatic and rarely causes intestinal obstruction. report highlights this rare anomaly as cause of Case A 28-year-old fit man presented to A&E with classical features Abdominal CT scan showed mechanical 360-degree...