Sub-total cholecystectomy is bail out procedure for difficult Gall bladder surgery. Long term sequalae can be remnant Gall bladder cholecystitis and stone disease which needs completion cholecystectomy. Certain rules are to be followed during this surgery.
Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) is a serious and potentially life-threatening complication of diabetes that arises when insulin levels are insufficient, resulting in the accumulation of ketones in the bloodstream. Postoperative hyperglycaemia triggered by surgical and anaesthetic stress is a well-recognized phenomenon and can lead to adverse clinical outcomes.
A 41-year-old male accountant who had a symptomatic redundant sigmoid colon for 10 years had a sigmoidectomy. Six hours post operatively, he developed symptoms of musculoskeletal Myasthenia Gravis (MG) crisis. This has not been reported before in surgery literature reviewed.
Spontaneous splenic rupture associated with colonoscopy is a rare and poorly documented event that requires prompt and precise identification, with surgical intervention being the usual management approach. A 64-year-old female patient underwent interventional colonoscopy for a mucosectomy.
Pigmented Villonodular Synovitis (PVNS) is a rare proliferative disease. You are more likely to experience it as a child, but adults get sick with the same thing too. It involves mainly the synovial joints, tendon sheaths and bursa membranes; knee is most commonly affected site but hip shoulder and smaller" joints may also be involved.
We present a rare case of flash burns in a 7-year-old child following the accidental ignition of foaming soap in the presence of an open candle flame. The patient sustained 6.5% Total Body Surface Area (TBSA) partial thickness burns affecting the chest, arms, and face.
Urothelial Carcinoma (UC) recurrence with pagetoid spread to the vulva is exceedingly rare and a diagnostic challenge due to its similarity to extramammary Paget's disease. This intraepithelial dissemination of tumor cells at vulva complicates clinical management and is poorly characterized in the literature.
Inguinal hernias containing the appendix are rare, but the occurrence of acute appendicitis within the hernia sac is an even more exceptional event that entails a difficult diagnosis and a non-unique surgical treatment.
Androgenic Alopecia (AGA) is a common condition influenced by genetic and hormonal factors, with emerging evidence linking it to gut microbiota. Dysbiosis may affect AGA through immune regulation, androgen metabolism, and systemic pathways.
Headache is a common medical complaint, often attributed to primary headache disorders such as migraine or tension-type headache. However, secondary headaches caused by vascular pathology, including Vertebral Artery Dissection (VAD), must be recognized, particularly after cervical spine manipulation, to prevent serious complications.
The presence of a mass in the groin region is concerning due to its anatomical location and the wide range of possible differential diagnoses. Soft tissue sarcomas are rare tumors that should be suspected when a mass exceeds 5 cm and continues to grow independent of pain. We report a case of spindle cell sarcoma, a subtype of soft tissue sarcoma, located in the groin.
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