Subject(s)
Foreign Bodies/etiology , Urinary Bladder/diagnostic imaging , Urinary Catheterization/adverse effects , Urinary Retention/etiology , Diagnosis, Differential , Foreign Bodies/diagnostic imaging , Foreign-Body Migration/etiology , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Prostatectomy , Prostatic Hyperplasia/diagnosis , Prostatic Hyperplasia/etiology , Prostatic Hyperplasia/surgery , Radiography , Urinary Bladder Calculi/diagnosis , Urinary Retention/diagnosisABSTRACT
Perforation of malignant gall bladder resulting in liver abscess and presenting as pyrexia of unknown origin is rare. We report a patient who was diagnosed at surgery, which was undertaken with a diagnosis of liver abscess on CT scan.
Subject(s)
Adenocarcinoma/complications , Gallbladder Neoplasms/complications , Liver Abscess/etiology , Adenocarcinoma/diagnostic imaging , Aged , Cholelithiasis/complications , Diagnosis, Differential , Fever of Unknown Origin/etiology , Gallbladder Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging , Humans , Liver Abscess/diagnostic imaging , Male , Tomography, X-Ray ComputedABSTRACT
Mesenteric lipoma as a cause of small intestinal volvulus has not been reported before. We report a middle-aged man with this entity.
Subject(s)
Intestinal Obstruction/etiology , Intestine, Small , Lipoma/complications , Mesentery , Peritoneal Neoplasms/complications , Humans , Intestinal Obstruction/pathology , Intestine, Small/pathology , Lipoma/pathology , Male , Mesentery/pathology , Middle Aged , Peritoneal Neoplasms/pathologyABSTRACT
The present study includes seventeen patients with second and third degree fresh burns involving 15-50 per cent total body surface area (TBSA). Surface swabs and quantitative burn wound biopsy cultures were obtained during postburn weeks 1, 2 and 3 and correlation was studied. To obtain bacterial counts the technique described by Loebel et al. (1974) was used. The patients were divided in two groups depending upon burn body surface area involved. The first group includes five patients with burns between 15-29 per cent body surface area and the second group includes the rest of the twelve patients with burns between 30-50 per cent body surface area. No patient from group I showed any sign or symptom of sepsis whereas seven patients from group II developed sepsis and three died. These three patients showed positive blood culture at the time of death. Of the 48 cultures obtained in all the patients over 3 weeks, 7 cultures showed differences between swab and biopsy cultures. Genticyn was the most effective drug against Gram-negative organisms.
