Surgical treatment of a double splenic artery aneurysm.

Splenic artery aneurysms account for the majority of splanchnic artery aneurysms. These constitute a uncommon pathology, but with a mortality rate greater 70%. We report a case of a double symptomatic aneurysm of the splenic artery with a proximal and distal localization.

Blunt abdominal trauma: current management.

Management of blunt abdominal trauma has evolved over the last decade and non-operative management (NOM), initially viewed with scepticism, has now become widely used. The aim of this retrospective study was to examine the results of liberal utilisation of NOM of blunt abdominal trauma. For that purpose we examined the charts of 119 patients admitted to our Department of Surgery from January 1998 to July 2006 for blunt abdominal trauma.

Aggressive sebaceous carcinoma of the head.

Cutaneous sebaceous carcinoma (SC) is a rare malignancy deriving from the adnexal epithelium of the sebaceous glands. Periorbital SC is approximately three times more common than extraorbital cutaneous SC. Extraocular SC is reported to be less aggressive than orbital sebaceous carcinoma and rarely metastasizes.

[Reconstruction of the inguinal ligament in recurrent inguinal hernia using the "three-sheet" technique].

Destruction of the groin ligament is an unusual occurrence, often of traumatic or surgical origin. In the event of recurrent inguinal hernia with a destroyed inguinal ligament, the reconstruction of the wall with the surgical techniques currently available yields prognostically unfavourable results with frequent recurrence in only a short space of time. The aim of this report was to present a hernioplasty technique using the "three-sheet" implant involving reduction of the hernia sac and the affixing of two reinforcement nets in Prolene in an attempt to reconstruct the destroyed groin ligament.