Aims: To present an atypical case of a neck swelling in the left posterior triangle. Case Presentation: A 21 year old girl presented with a painless swelling in left upper neck since 2 months, difficulty in swallowing, fever and loss of appetite since 15 days. On inspection, the...
Meckel's diverticulum is the partial persistence of the omphalo mesenteric duct. Its complications are rare. The diagnosis is most often per operative. We report the case of a 54-year-old patient admitted to the emergency room for a peritonitis picture. The clinical examination...
Small bowel volvulus (SBV) constitutes 1-6% of all small bowel obstructions (SBO) in adults. Clinically it can be difficult to discern whether a SBO is due to SBV hence why imaging is a key aspect of diagnosis. The presence of a whirl sign on computed tomography is a classic sign...
Conjoined twins are a rare phenomenon of monochorionic monoamniotic twins, with an incidence of 1 in 50,000 to 200,000 births. They have a low survival rate of 7.5%, and 40% of surgically separated twins don’t survive. The SARS-CoV-2 infection has contributed to 178 million infec...
Right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) dysfunction requiring pulmonary valve reconstruction following the surgical repair of Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF) is common. It remains a challenge in the pediatric population due to the small size of the pulmonary valve annulus, especially wh...
Mohammad N. Athamnah, Nimah A. Rabai, Hussein S. O. Al Azzam, Odai S. Sawaqed, Mu’taz M. A. Massad, Mohammad A. K. Alshloul, Layth A. K. Alshloul, Mohammad A. M. Al Mestrihi & Amer Abu-Shanab·Asian Journal of Case Reports in Surgery·2021
In this report, we present a 38-year-old male patient who was complaining of a six-day history of progressive abdominal pain with recurrent vomiting and constipation. He was afebrile with normal blood pressure and mild tachycardia, his pain was diffused all over the abdomen but m...
Aims: Acute gastric dilatation (AGD) is the radiological finding of a massively enlarged stomach as seen on a plain film x-ray or CT scan of the abdomen. Due to a lack of physician awareness, it may go undiagnosed and has a high mortality if not treated promptly. Multiple aetiolo...
Introduction: Ingestion of foreign bodies, particularly fish bones, resulting in gastrointestinal tract perforations and migration to the adjacent organs are uncommon. We reported two cases of fish bone ingestion leading to oesophageal perforation and migration into a thyroid gla...
Tracheal rupture is a rare but serious complication of both trauma and intubation. Clinical manifestation includes widespread subcutaneous emphysema and respiratory distress. The management is either a surgical repair or conservative. Here we present a rare case of tracheal ruptu...
Jejunal diverticulosis is a rare entity and is usually asymptomatic. However, it may present with chronic symptoms and acute complications. Most of these are false diverticuli. True diverticuli, as elsewhere in the GIT, possess all layers of the intestine, and are significantly r...