primary hepatic lymphoma (phl) was a rare malignancy usually presenting with abdominal pain, malaise, hepatomegaly, b-symptoms, fatigue, nausea, vomiting and jaundice. it mostly involves liver without any palpable lymphadenopathy and leukemia in peripheral blood smear. on july 22, 2014, a 64 year old man presented with abdominal pain localizing in right upper quadrant and fullness from 2 years ...

abdominal tuberculosis is still a prevalent problem of underdeveloped countries. although its incidence has been reduced in developed countries, it is still seen in immigrants and immunodeficient patients frequently. in iran, even though it's incidence has been reduced, we are still confronted with undesired mortality and morbidity. in this article we have evolved new management strategies...

wandering spleen, defined as a spleen without its usual peritoneal attachments, is a rare entity. we report a 34-year-old woman with acute abdomen due to torsion of the long vascular pedicle of a wandering spleen, displaced in the abdominal cavity, and infarction of the spleen. wandering spleen was diagnosed by ultrasound and computed tomography (ct) scan, and was managed by splenectomy in this...

a 34-year-old hiv positive-man was admitted to the hospital due to fever and abdominal pain. constant and generalized abdominal pain started 3 months prior to admission (pta) in upper quadrants of abdomen followed by mild odynophagia, early satiety and more than 20 kg weight loss since then. intermittent fever begun 7 days pta and cough, sputum and dyspnea started since 5 days pta. his general ...

postpolypectomy bleeding and perforation are the major complications of colonoscopy. this report presents a rare case of colon obstruction immediately after colonoscopy. a 56-year-old man underwent colonoscopy because of 6 months lower abdominal pain. colonoscopy revealed diverticulosis and multiple small sessile polyps in sigmoid colon. biopsy samples were taken from the polyps and the procedu...

conclusions some children with cap have acnes. in all children with acnes, we recommended local nerve blocks. if the local block in 3 times is not helping, neurectomy of the peripheral nerve is method of choice. results in 12 pediatric patients with chronic abdominal pain, we diagnosed acnes. each presented with abdominal pain and a positive carnett sign. local nerve blocks using anesthetic and...

because of significant reduction of rupture rate and increase in the patient’s life expectancy, elective surgical treatment in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm has been widely accepted. the present article aims at assessing the postoperative complications and mortality rate in patients who had been submitted to elective surgery for abdominal aortic aneurysms. this is a retrospective stud...

background and objectives non-traumatic acute abdominal pain is one of the most common complaints in patients referred to emergency department. to make diagnosis decision several diagnostic tests such as wbc count, urine analysis, and abdominal sonography are usually ordered which disturb emergency department, staff and force significant cost to patient and are time consuming. this study was do...

conclusions our case series highlights the role of imaging in possibility of lead poisoning among opium users, that presented with acute abdominal pain with an unknown cause. methods we hereby describe 119 consecutive patients hospitalized in our emergency department who presented with complains of acute, severe abdominal pain due to lead contaminated opium (september 2015 - october 2016). upon...