Publications by authors named "Emmanuel T Limpin"
Article Synopsis
- Cortical blindness is when a person loses their vision even though their eyes are healthy, often due to reasons like stroke or head injuries.
- A 25-year-old man lost his vision after surgery to fix a cut on his arm, and doctors found he had issues in the part of his brain that controls vision.
- Fortunately, his vision got better on its own within a week, showing that sometimes unusual causes of vision loss can happen after surgery.
Foreign body ingestion is an infrequent cause of small bowel obstruction and, rarely, perforation. It is a common occurrence among pediatric patients, mentally impaired and the edentulous elderly population majority of which will pass through the gastrointestinal tract uneventfully. The likelihood of complications such as perforation, bleeding or fistula formation increases markedly particularly for sharp, stiff, and elongated objects (i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The Philippines ranks 10th in tuberculosis prevalence worldwide. Aside from pulmonary tuberculosis, GI tuberculosis remains an important cause of morbidity and mortality, particularly in endemic areas.
Objective: This study aimed to describe the clinicopathologic profile and surgical outcomes of patients with GI tuberculosis.
Introduction: Ameloblastomas are slow growing and locally aggressive odontogenic tumors with a high propensity for recurrence. It frequently arises in the mandible and has been reported to metastasize commonly in the lungs. An updated World Health Organization classification re-categorized metastasizing ameloblastomas under benign tumors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Endometriosis is a chronic benign recurrent gynecologic disease commonly affecting 10% of women worldwide wherein endometrial glands implant and mature outside the uterine cavity causing symptoms such as dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, or abdominal pain.
Case Presentation: Herein we describe a case of a 40-year-old female with primary bilateral inguinal endometriosis presenting with catamenial pain for which surgical excision was performed providing definitive treatment. The patient has been asymptomatic with no recurrence at 6 months of follow-up.