Factors predicting recurrence after curative resection for rectal cancer: a 16-year study.

Background: The recurrence after curative surgery of the rectal adenocarcinoma is a serious complication, considered as a failure of the therapeutic strategy. The aim of this study was to identify the different prognostic factors affecting the recurrence of adenocarcinoma of the rectum.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of patients operated for adenocarcinoma of the rectum between January 2000 and December 2015 was conducted.

Appendicular endometriosis: A case report and review of literature.

Introduction: Patients with appendicular endometriosis (AE) constitute <1% cases of all pelvic endometriosis cases. AE presents with pain in right iliac fossa and symptomatically mimics appendicitis and definitive diagnosis is possible only after histopathological examination of excised appendix.

Presentation Of Case: In this case report, we present a rare case of appendicular endometriosis in a young woman suffering from pain in right iliac fossa and periumbilical region (on/off) for the past one year.

Gallbladder volvulus: A case report and review of the literature.

Introduction: Gallbladder volvulus (GV) is a rare disease with less than 400 cases reported in the English literature. The pre-operative diagnosis of GV is difficult as none of the imaging modalities are accurate. Once diagnosed, the mainstay of treatment is emergency surgical derotation and cholecystectomy.

Idiopathic segmental infarction of the omentum mimicking acute appendicitis: A case report.

Introduction: Omentum is a well vascularized organ. Omentum infarction is uncommon. Most of the cases are secondary due to torsion, intra-abdominal infections and vascular thrombosis.