A 50-year-old peri-menopausal woman presented with hard palpable mass on her lower abdomen and anemia from heavy menstrual bleeding. Ultrasonography showed a 13×12 cm sized hypoechoic solid mass in pelvis and a 2.5×2 cm hypoechoic cystic mass in uterine endometrium. Abdomino-pelvic computed tomography revealed a hypodense pelvic mass without enhancement, suggesting a leiomyoma of intraligamenta...

Correspondence : Dr. Shailesh Kore Sangh Mitra CHS, Ambekar Nagar, Chunabhatti, Sion, Mumbai 400 022. Email: [email protected] Tel.56219388 Mobile : 9324332317 or infarction may require resection anastomosis, thus greatly reducing bowel length. These babies with short gut syndrome require total parenteral nutrition for a long time and die at the age of 5-7 years due to liver disease. Unf...

INTRODUCTION Abdominal pregnancy is extremely rare and has historically been defined as an implantation in the peritoneal cavity, exclusive of tubal, ovarian or intraligamentary pregnancy. CASE PRESENTATIONS Three cases are reported. All came from a lower middle-income group and all of them were subjected to surgery. The first patient was a 30-year-old woman, who was pregnant for the fourth t...

BACKGROUND In recent years, the scientific discussion has focused on new strategies to enable a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) to heal into mechanically stable scar tissue. Dynamic intraligamentary stabilization (DIS) with LigamysTM was first performed in a pilot study of 10 patients. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the five year results of this group. METHODS Inclusio...

Antibiotic prophylaxis for infective endocarditis (IE) prior to certain procedures is a particularly controversial issue for the dental community. On the basis of the information provided in an editorial recently published in the Revista Española de Cardiologı́a and the enormous perplexity generated by the proposal of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (United Kingdom) that antibiotic...