Caesarean scar endometriosis: how to make an accurate diagnosis.

Caesarean scar endometriosis is a rare condition characterised by the presence of endometrial tissue within a surgical scar following a caesarean section. A woman in her late 30s presented with a painful lump beneath her caesarean section skin scar, worsening during menstruation. Despite a previous incision and drainage procedure for a 'scar abscess', the symptoms persisted.

Home accidents in Sri Lanka--multicentre study.

Objective: To determine the pattern of home accidents treated in four types of clinical practice.

Setting: A general practice and four hospital-based practices in accident service, general surgery and paediatric surgery.

Materials: Data were collected on a pre-tested questionnaire from 2672 patients who comprised all the home accident patients treated at the 5 centres during a 12 month period.

Emergency femoral arteriography in lower limb vascular trauma.

There are difficulties in obtaining emergency arteriographic evaluation in lower limb vascular trauma even in the best centres in the world. Ten emergency room arteriograms were performed at the new Accident Service of the General Hospital, Colombo from February to October 1992 by the vascular team, using a venous cannula and improvised tubing systems. The indications were, absence of distal pulses with closed injury to the limb, previous attempts at repair, injury to the limb at more than one site and multiple shrapnel injury.

The General Hospital Colombo Rehabilitation Project.

The General Hospital Colombo (GHC) Rehabilitation Project was to be implemented in 6 phases in about 25 years. The proposed funding was a grant of 100% from Finland for technical assistance and training, and 85% for investments. The development objective was to reinforce the status of the hospital as the apex of the medical care system.

Relationship between dose and serum concentrations of carbamazepine, phenytoin, phenobarbital, and primidone in a Sri Lankan population compared with a European population.

Concentrations of carbamazepine, phenytoin, phenobarbital, and primidone have been measured by high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) in serums of 177 Sri Lankan epileptic patients. Relationships between concentrations and dose per kg body weight of these drugs have been compared with those of patients in the Netherlands, using a matching procedure. Although variabilities in dose-concentration ratios were somewhat larger in Sri Lanka than in the Netherlands, no evidence was found of a systematic difference in pharmacokinetics between both populations.