Coconut leaf midrib skewer as a cause for small bowel obstruction and perforation: A case report.

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.

Primary bilateral inguinal endometriosis: A case report.

Introduction: 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.

Hepatectomy as a Salvage procedure for blunt abdominal trauma: A case report.

The liver is the organ most commonly injured in blunt abdominal trauma. Significant changes in the management of liver trauma have occurred over the last four decades with non-operative management being the first-line of treatment. Although hepatic resection for trauma is an accepted and established option for definitive treatment, it is rarely performed because of the associated morbidity and mortality, at least historically.