Delayed dehiscence of a previously repaired bladder rupture in a 12-year-old boy is descr ibed. There was no obvious cause except that while in bed the boy had withheld his ear ly morning urge to pass urine. He presented with peritonitis and raised urea and creatinine levels. Retrograde cystography was diagnostic after the urinary catheter had drained 1.2 litres of blood-tinged urine. The rent ...

Single angiodysplasias were demonstrated by preoperative angiography in four patients. In two cases the lesions were in the terminal ileum, and were situated just above the caecum in the other two patients. In three patients, contrast medium was extravasated into the bowel lumen. Histological verification was obtained in three instances. The literature on intestinal angiodysplastic lesions was ...

Tc-99m pertechnetate scintigraphy is a standard procedure for diagnosis of Meckel's diverticulum. It usually presents as a static abnormality in the midabdomen. We report a 17-year-old patient with severe lower gasterointestinal bleeding and anemia. On Tc-99m pertechnetate scintigraphy, focal abnormal activity was noted in the abdomen which was moving in the abdominal cavity. The patient underw...

A 16 year old unmarried girl presented with complaints of abdominal distension, vomiting, constipation, difficulty in breathing and restlessness. On examination abdomen was grossly distended with fluid thrill. Ultrasonographic examination revealed that there was a huge cystic collection with internal debris, multiple septations involving the whole abdomen and pelvis originating from right ovary...

Non-traumatic abdominal pain is a common presenting complaint in emergency department (ED) patients, quoted in some contemporary literature as being the third most frequent reason for ED visits. We present the ED and hospital course of an unusual case of an 11 year old female with right lower quadrant abdominal pain. The admission assessment of this patient was "possible appendicitis versus gas...

We present two patients with jejunal diverticulitis. Diverticula in jejunum and ileum are very rare, occurring with an incidence of 0.07-2% in the gastrointestinal tract. They are often associated with unspecific symptoms as intermittent abdominal pain, nausea and diarrhoea. The treatment of mild diverticular disease is intravenous fluids and antibiotics. If there is an occurrence of peritoniti...

Fungal infections of the gastrointestinal tract are not common in children, especially in immunocompetent ones. In this case report we describe a child who was presented with abdominal pain and mass, bloody diarrhea and fever. He was treated for amebiasis, but due to treatment failure and deterioration of his condition, he underwent a laparatomy. Histologic examination of the excised bowel in t...

Parastomal hernias (PSHs) are a common type of incisional hernia and the most frequent complication to colostomies. Usually only mobile structures of the abdomen herniate in the hernial sac of the non-traumatic hernia. This case describes a large PSH adjacent to a lower left quadrant colostomy containing the mobile small intestine, part of the colon and a perforated stomach. The PSH presented w...

An 8-month-old female thoroughbred foal was presented showing signs of colic. The foal was anxious,exhibiting signs of abdominal pain and distention. The foal had tachycardia (120 beats/min), tachypnea (40breaths/min). Blood samples obtained for haematologic and serum biochemistry analysis that showed a PCVof 30% and a TPP of 70 g/L. The peritoneal fluid analysis revealed a clear fluid with mil...