Missed gallstones in the abdominal wall: complication of a laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy, like any invasive procedure, is associated with complications. One of them often ignored despite its frequency, as the results of the low morbidity rate is stone spillage. We present a case of a 38 years male, with obesity; that underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy for an acute cholecystitis.

[Pancreatic ectopia].

Pancreatic ectopia (PE) consists in the existence of pancreatic tissue outside its usual location in the normal pancreas. This rare condition, with an uncertain incidence, occurs most often in the stomach, duodenum and jejunum. The ectopic pancreas is usually asymptomatic but it may become clinically significant when it becomes affected with the same kind of complications which affect the normal pancreas - inflammation, bleeding, obstruction of the anatomic structure where it is located and malignant transformation.

[Microbiological profile and antibiotic susceptibility patterns of organisms isolated from diabetic foot ulcers in a Portuguese hospital].

Objectives: To determine the microbiological profile and antibiotic susceptibility patterns of organisms isolated from diabetic foot ulcers in a Portuguese hospital.

Methods: Microbiological data from ambulatory and hospitalized patients with diabetic foot infection during the year 2010 were retrospectively analysed. The profile of the isolated organisms was identified, regarding their prevalence both in the outpatient and inpatient settings.

[Transobturator tapes for stress urinary incontinence treatment: middle-term results].

Introduction: Minimal invasive surgical treatment of female stress urinary incontinence with suburethral transobturator tapes is completely accepted nowadays. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and security of these suburethral tapes, comparing the outside-in to the inside-out approach.

Material And Methods: We performed a retrospective study of 298 patients with stress urinary incontinence diagnosis that were submitted to transobturator surgery between 2003 and 2006.

[Traumatic pseudoaneurysm of the abdominal aorta. Case report].

Abdominal aortic pseudoaneurysms are rare in clinical practice, mainly when they are related to a blunt abdominal trauma. Clinical presentation is often vague, but they can cause symptoms related to the compression of adjacent organs or structures. The authors report the clinical case of a man, aged 47 years old, who developed a pseudoaneurysm of the terminal aorta, following an abdominal blunt trauma, consequence of a traffic accident, who underwent successful surgical treatment.