Post BCG vaccination tuberculous axillary abscess total excision V/s incision and drainage

In 80 patients with axillary abscess following BCG vaccination, a prospective study was carried out to determine the results of surgical treatment by either total excision or incision and drainage. Six months anti-tuberculous chemotherapy was administered to patients in both groups. Four [10%] out of forty patients who underwent simple incision and drainage required re-operation for residual glands with persistant sinus. While all 40 cases who underwent total excision had no postoperative problem

Intestinal perforation experience in 80 cases

Eighty patients ranging from 10-60 years were treated for Intestinal perforation. Seventy one [89%] were males. Mortality rate was 15%, and was influenced by duration of illness, duration of perforation, shock, uraemia and faecal peritonitis. Seventy four patients were treated by simple closure of perforation, four required right hemicolectomy and two were in terminal stage and were intubated under local anaesthesia. 56 patients [70%] had post-operative complications

Management of inguinal hernia experience of 334 cases at Hyderabad

A prospective study of 334 patients of Inguinal hernia was carried out at Liaquat Medical College Hospital, Jamshoro, Hyderabad in surgical Unit-II from January, 1987, to December, 1990. 329 [98.5%] were males and 5 [1.5%] were females. Peak age incidence was in the 1st and 3rd decade, 75 patients [22.4%] and 72 patients [21.5%] respectively. 211 patients [63.2%] had right sided hernia, 109 [32.6%] had left sided while 14 [4.2%] had bilateral hernia. 32 patients presented in emergency as complicated hernia while 302 were admitted as elective cases. No mortality occurred in the elective cases, while 2 patients died amongst those who presented with complicated hernia