Hyperbilirubinaemia a predictive factor for complicated acute appendicitis: a study in a tertiary care hospital.

Objective: To study the role of hyperbilirubinaemia as a predictive factor for appendiceal perforation in acute appendicitis.

Methods: The prospective, descriptive study was conducted at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and the Karachi Medical and Dental College, Karachi, from January 2010 to June 2012. It comprised all patients coming to the surgical outpatient department and emergency department with pain in the right iliac fossa with duration less than seven days.

Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma of tonsil.

Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma is a very rare entity. So far only 12 cases have been reported world wide with involvement of tonsil. We present a new case of follicular dendritic cell sarcoma of the tonsil in a 52 years old woman with no evidence of neck node involvement.

Total contact cast for neuropathic diabetic foot ulcers.

Objective: To determine the outcome of diabetic neuropathic foot ulcers treated with Total Contact Cast (TCC) in terms of percentage of ulcers healed and time to heal.

Study Design: Analytical study.

Place And Duration Of Study: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, Karachi Medical and Dental College, from April 2005 to March 2007.