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Abdominal textiloma mimicking as gastrointestinal stromal tumor: A case report.
Ann Med Surg (Lond)
October 2021
Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco.
Introduction And Importance: Gossypiboma or textiloma is a mass comprising of cotton matrix within the body left accidentally during a surgical procedure. The body may react to this foreign body through an exudative inflammatory reaction or an aseptic fibrotic reaction in order to encapsulate the cotton material and result into a mass.
Case Presentation: We report a case of 65-year-old female.
Pyromania in court: Legal insanity versus culpability in Western Europe and the Netherlands (1800-1950).
Int J Law Psychiatry
April 2019
Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Utrecht University, Newtonlaan 231, 3584 BH Utrecht, The Netherlands. Electronic address:
This article provides an overview of medico-legal views concerning pathological firesetting in Western Europe and the Netherlands in the period 1800-1950. This article aims to answer the question how changing views on firesetting as either a culpable act or an excusable expression of pathology have influenced the actual court decisions over time. The focus will be on the notion of pyromania and its implications on criminal responsibility and relevant developments concerning pathological firesetting are placed in a judicial context.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBritish Association of Spine Surgeons standards of care for cauda equina syndrome.
Spine J
March 2015
BASS President Elect, Consultant Orthopaedic Spinal Surgeon-Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK.
This group of articles looks at the BASS guidelines for CES. TG and AC gave us the background on the long journey taken in publishing this, SA summarized the forum discussion on the BASS Web site, and NT gave us a medicolegal comment. The guidelines are concise, highlighting the need for prompt MRI scanning and as a consequence emergency surgery in appropriate cases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Ethanol is the main psychoactive ingredient of alcoholic beverages. Together with water it makes their major part. The other substances contained in alcoholic beverages are called congeners.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFatal gunshot injuries in Benin City, Nigeria.
Med Sci Law
October 2013
Police Medicals, Police headquarters, Benin City, Nigeria.
An upsurge in gun violence in recent times in our environment necessitated this study, which aims to document the patterns of fatal gunshot injuries with the hope of finding a solution to this problem. The study was a retrospective analysis of cases of fatal gunshot injuries on which autopsies were carried out over the 5-year period from January 1998 to December 2002 at Police Medical Services, Benin City - a Nigerian ancient town located in the South-South zone of the country. Most cases of medico-legal death in Benin City and environs are referred to the Police Pathologist at the center for autopsy.
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