to the respiration from pressure applied externally to the air passages. The difference between the two lies in the manner in which the force producing this obstruction is applied. In strangulation the result is brought about by compression by the hand as in throttling, or by a rope or some such instrument, while in hanging the constricting force is the weight of the body which is more or less ...

The aim of this case report was to demonstrate the importance of detailed clinical assessment in victims of attempted manual strangulation, to prevent the occurrence of delayed death due to an airway collapse; and to provide an update on clinical management of these patients. An elderly male patient presented with a sore throat and speech impairment after attempting manual strangulation. Physic...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this article was to describe our experience in using rotating saw and also combination of the instrument with 4-needle aspiration. METHODS A comprehensive review of the literature was performed using PubMed. "Penile strangulation, -constriction, -incarceration, -entrapment" were used as search terms, and a manual bibliographic review of cross referenced items was perfo...

BACKGROUND Posttraumatic diaphragmatic hernias (PDH) are serious complications of blunt and penetrating abdominal or thoracic trauma. Traditional thoracic or abdominal operations are usually performed in these cases. METHODS We present 2 cases of posttraumatic left-sided diaphragmatic hernia complicated by strangulation and colon obstruction. Both cases were successfully treated with laparosc...

This article has been corrected. See "A 13-year-old boy with strangulation of the floating gallbladder by lesser omentum" in Volume 9 on page 61.

Strangulation of a diaphragmatic hernia was first described by Pare in 1575. It is a rare complication of this type of hernia; Hoffman, Levy, Sole, and Lewitan (1954) could only find 76 cases in the literature and added a case of their own. Most of the earlier instances of strangulation occurred in herniae of traumatic origin, but in recent years there has been a higher proportion in congenital...

were present in the right inguinal region. Previous history.?The patient was operated upon in Madras in 1932 for strangulated hernia on the right side, in 1934 he was again operated upon in Madras for a recurrence of the strangulation, and in 1935, in Calcutta, he was operated upon for the third time for a further recurrence of the strangulation. The history of the present recurrence was of 24 ...

To study clinical and histopathological changes occur within the first 12 hours of strangulating obstruction of the small intestine in equine, twenty five adult donkeys were used in an experimental study. Strangulation obstruction of the small intestine was performed for 3, 6, 9 and 12 hours, respectively. Clinical examination was done before surgery and at 3 hours intervals postoperatively. Af...

BACKGROUND The level of intestinal fatty acid-binding protein (I-FABP) is considered to be useful diagnostic markers of small bowel ischemia. The purpose of this retrospective study was to investigate whether the serum I-FABP level is a predictive marker of strangulation in patients with small bowel obstruction (SBO). METHODS A total of 37 patients diagnosed with SBO were included in this stu...

An epiploic appendage of the sigmoid colon is considered to be an unusual type of inguinal hernia content. The strangulation of a sigmoid colon appendage into a right inguinal hernia is exclusively rare. We present a case of an 81-year-old female patient with severe cardiovascular comorbidities who was urgently admitted after an episode of strangulation and subsequent spontaneous reduction of a...