"Is our choice of empirical antibiotics appropriate for patients with methicillin resistant in breast abscess?".

Background And Objectives: Breast abscesses remain as one of the most common reasons for females to come for a surgical consult. This retrospective cohort study includes both lactating and non-lactating females with breast abscesses. Due to changing trends in bacteriology of organisms, we need to reconsider our empirical choices of antibiotics.

Discordance of biomarker status in recurrent breast cancer.

Objective: To study the pattern of percentage change of biomarker status in recurrent breast cancer and to compare it with its primary biomarker.

Methods: Patients with recurrent breast disease presenting to the Breast Unit of Liaquat National Hospital and Medical College, Karachi, between January 2004 and January 2011 were included in this study. Outcome of interest was any change in the biomarker status of oestrogen receptor, progesterone receptor and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2/neu) with respect to their respective primary status.

Common presentation uncommon diagnosis primary omental torsion.

Primary omental torsion is a rare cause of acute abdomen and mimics common acute abdominal condition like appendicitis. Torsion of the greater omentum may be primary or secondary. Here we present 2 cases admitted through emergency with the pain in right iliac fossa with this unusual diagnosis.