ABSTRACT
An eight-year-old boy presented with massive pseudomalignant heterotopic ossification around the upper femur. The mass was completely excised because of severe pain, systemic illness and a flexion contracture at the hip. Symptomatic improvement was swift, but two weeks later the mass had recurred and was even more extensive. During the subsequent 18 months of conservative management he has been free of pain and there has been progressive resorption and remodelling of the heterotopic bone. There is now no limitation of physical activity and movement at the hip is full.
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Femur , Myositis Ossificans/diagnostic imaging , Bone Resorption , Child , Diagnosis, Differential , Femoral Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging , Humans , Male , Myositis Ossificans/surgery , Radiography , RecurrenceABSTRACT
One month after suffering blunt abdominal trauma a patient developed severe steatorrhea and profound weight loss in association with an ischemic distal jejunal stricture and blind loop syndrome. Evidence for a partial mesenteric tear was found at resection of the stricture, which resulted in complete cure.
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Blind Loop Syndrome/etiology , Intestinal Obstruction/etiology , Jejunum/injuries , Wounds, Nonpenetrating/complications , Blind Loop Syndrome/surgery , Humans , Male , Middle AgedABSTRACT
A pelvic mass removed from an asymptomatic 52-year-old woman proved to be a large angioleiomyolipoma arising from the cervix and lying within the broad ligament. It was histologically unusual in that it incorporated structures reproducing the sinuses of lymph nodes.
