One-year-old Chucky, a family pet from Barrow, was found collapsed and bloodied after going missing overnight. He was referred to Kentdale Referrals in Milnthorpe, where a CT scan revealed severe ...

Incisional hernia is an important complication of abdominal surgery. Procedures for the repair of these hernias with sutures and with mesh have been reported, but there is no consensus about which ...

Upper part of the stomach: a hiatal or hiatus hernia is caused by the upper part of the stomach pushing out of the abdominal cavity and into the chest cavity through an opening in the diaphragm.

Plexiform fibromyxoma is a rare primary mesenchymal tumor of the gastrointestinal tract, first reported by Takahashi in 2007 and officially recognized as a subtype of gastric mesenchymal tumor by the ...

The abdominal cavity contains the digestive tract (small and large intestines), kidneys, and adrenal glands. The pelvic cavity contains most of the urogenital system and the rectum.

After reviewing the literature, there were no published cases discussing the finding of fallopian tube remnant at the vaginal vault after total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingectomy.

Key messages • We do not know if drain (tube) use after open (where a large cut is made to access underlying organs or tissues) or keyhole (surgery performed through a very small surgical cut) removal ...

Tuberculosis (TB) of the gastrointestinal tract and any other organ within the abdominal cavity is abdominal TB, and most guidelines recommend the same six-month regimen used for pulmonary TB for ...

This trial was the first systematic review and meta-analysis comparing abdominal paracentesis drainage (APD) with conventional percutaneous catheter drainage method in treating patients with acute ...