Introduction: Hospitalization is a common experience today. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2012, the global volume of surgical procedures performed was estimated at 312.9 million operations. Addition to the physical consequences of surgery, patients may also...
Introduction and Importance: The ileo-sigmoid knot is a rare entity of intestinal occlusion by strangulation. It is a surgical emergency whose delay in management exposes to digestive necrosis and high mortality. Materials and Methods: Our work is a retrospective case report wit...
Introduction: Meckel's diverticulum is due to the partial persistence of the omphalo mesenteric duct. It is a rare condition, affecting about 2% of the population. It is usually asymptomatic, but can also be responsible for complications which constitute as many circumstances of...
Bowel obstruction is a common complication of advanced ovarian cancer and is rarely described in benign cystic lesions. We report a case of colon obstruction secondary to torsion of a large benign ovarian cyst. Case presentation: A 25-year-old woman without antecedents was admitt...
Heterotopia is defined as an ectopic localization of normal tissue; the heterotopia of the gastric mucosa can be observed all along the digestive tract. The localization in the gallbladder is exceptional. The diagnosis is histological, it may present some complications including...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2019/v31i130279