massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding is a known complication of advanced sepsis in trauma patients and carries a grave prognosis. however, to our knowledge, an important cause of massive gastrointestinal bleeding, arterio-visceral fistula, has not been discussed in the literature. the most common cause of this unique clinical entity is penetrating high velocity abdominal injuries, although b...

The stomach forms at about 4 weeks after conception by the development of a spindle-shaped dilatation of the foregut caudal to the esophagus. The stomach descends into the abdomen at about 6 to 7 weeks after conception, and by 11 weeks the muscles in its wall are developed. Visualization with ultrasound is possible as early as the 9th week of menstrual age. Different parts of the gastric anatom...

OBJECTIVE To determine the pattern, presentation and outcome of gastrointestinal injuries from blunt abdominal trauma in children. DESIGN A retrospective study. SETTING Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, Nigeria. SUBJECTS Twenty one children managed for gastrointestinal injuries from blunt trauma from 1984-2002. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The pattern, presentation, management ...

BACKGROUND Recurrent abdominal cancer can manifest in many ways but there are certain situations that are a great challenge to clinicians. Emergency presentation is one such situation. Surgeons are faced with a therapeutic dilemma that on the one hand most of these patients have a limited life expectancy, and on the other surgical procedures are unavoidable. We reviewed our experience of recurr...

We report a rare case of a giant extradural and intraabdominal ganglioneuroblastoma in a young Malay girl who presented to a paediatrician initially at 5 days of life with a palpable abdominal mass. Unfortunately, the parents refused any form of surgical intervention until the child was 3 years old. She subsequently underwent vascular embolisation followed by the removal of this large tumour bo...

Abstract Understanding the abdominal and pelvic visceral anatomy is critical to understanding predicting pathways by which disease may spread throughout abdomen pelvis. The ligamentous attachments that interconnect intraabdominal organs are critically important as these common conduits for of disease. Moreover, peritoneal ligaments support them form boundaries cavity, together, they guide flow ...

UNLABELLED The abdominal cystic lymphangioma (CL) in adults is a rare benign tumor of the lymphatic system. METHODS We report a retrospective study from January 2002 to Decemberr 2014 concerning 18 patients who underwent surgical removal of a CL, 9 patients with laparoscopic approach included. The localization, size, and number, diagnostic, treatment and results have been reported for patient...