The safety of primary repair or anastomosis in high-risk trauma patients.

Purpose: There is currently not enough data regarding the management of bowel injury and the results of primary repair or resection and anastomosis in high-risk trauma patients. We aimed to determine whether there were any short-term (30 days) postoperative complications relevant to the primary reconstruction of such bowel injuries.

Method: In a retrospective study, all trauma patients who underwent a definite laparotomy after penetrating or blunt injury in our institution during the last decade were identified.

Colon cancer perforation presenting as a strangulating ventral hernia.

Colorectal cancer remains the second leading cause of death from malignant disease. Despite improvements in the treatment modalities offered to patients, more than half of the operated patients die from the disease. The most common presenting symptoms of colonic carcinoma are changes in bowel habits, bleeding, abdominal pain, abdominal mass, stools mixed with mucus or not, weight loss, anorexia, and other characteristics related to metastasis.

Soft tissue paraspinal inflammatory malignant fibrous histiocytoma presenting as a lumbar abscess.

The rarest subtype of malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) is the inflammatory type, which due to its peculiar clinical presentation may mimic an infectious process such as an abscess. The rarity of this disease and the unique features of its presentation may mislead the surgeon with consequent catastrophic results for the patient. In this study, a case report of a 65-year-old female patient with a soft-tissue inflammatory MFH presenting as a lumbar abscess and a review of the current literature are presented.