Adding intraperitoneal paclitaxel to intravenous paclitaxel plus oral S-1 improved overall survival in patients with gastric cancer and peritoneal metastasis, extending median survival to 19.4 months ...

AIMS: Spontaneous ruptured hepatocellular adenoma (SRHA) is a rare life-threatening condition that may require surgical treatment to control hemorrhaging and also stabilize the patient. We report a ...

Bacterial and parasitic agents can cause liver abscess (LA), and spontaneous rupture of a pyogenic liver abscess (PLA) represents an exceedingly rare but life-threatening event. Upon abscess rupture, ...

THIS review of acute gastroduodenal perforations is the third in a series representing the experience at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Richardson, 1 in 1917, reported 103 cases from 1896 to 1915 ...

Retained appendicoliths are an uncommon but clinically relevant complication of appendectomy, particularly in cases of perforated appendicitis. Migration of the appendicolith into the peritoneal ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Infection rates stayed within International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis guideline thresholds during the ...

Abdominal (peritoneal) drainage may not be better than abdominal surgery (laparotomy) in treating premature babies with very low birth weight who develop severe inflammation or holes in their ...

This prospective cohort study of patients with perforated peptic ulcer under care of all the surgical units at Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital Nagpur, was carried out between January 2000 ...

1. Department of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, USA. 2. Department of Interventional Radiology, Rochester Regional Health, New York, USA. Secondary bacterial peritonitis is ...

To the Editor: My practice started in 1909 and has included about 16 cases of abscess of the peritoneum that were opened in the patient's own home. This does not sound like very many and seems small ...

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