Ileocaecal intussusception secondary to metastatic phyllodes tumour of the breast.

abstract：:Aortic angiography is widely considered the 'gold standard' for the diagnosis of traumatic thoracic aortic injury. Unfortunately, thoracic aortic angiography has many disadvantages: the technique is invasive but, more importantly, it is not routinely available in all hospitals, necessitating transfer of critically ill...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Beese RC,Allan R,Treasure T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 'beehive' sign on the bladder as seen in cystograms is valuable in diagnosing the presence of colovesical fistula and is invariably associated with the vesical end of the fistulous tract. ...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Kaisary AV,Grant RW

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) usually presents in infancy with respiratory failure requiring urgent surgical correction. Mortality in this group of patients remains poor and persistent pulmonary hypertension is a significant contributor. It is therefore rare for patients to reach adulthood undiagnosed. CDH is ...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Manson HJ,Goh YM,Goldsmith P,Scott P,Turner P

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Annular small bowel ulceration is rare. We report three patients who presented with signs of chronic gastrointestinal blood loss. In two patients the main presenting symptom was intermittent abdominal pain while the third patient subsequently developed abdominal pain during the course of investigation. Preoperative lo...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Ballantyne KC,Morris DL,Hawkey CJ,Hardcastle JD

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern stapling equipment makes it possible to perform the vertical banded gastroplasty without major technical difficulties. Follow-up to date confirms its efficacy as a weight reducing procedure in the morbidly obese. ...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Harrison RA,Clark CG

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this study were to identify prospectively 'concealed' postoperative problems, to assess the burden of paediatric day care surgery on primary care services and to define a normal recovery period for common children's procedures. At their first postoperative clinic visit, patients and parents were asked dire...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： de la Hunt MN

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastric tube conduit is the method of choice for restoring continuity of the digestive track after a partial or total esophagectomy. Redundant gastric conduit (i.e. an elongated, floppy conduit) is a rare cause of dysphagia in patients with long survival. Gastric tube volvulus is exceedingly rare with only three cases...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Schizas D,Michalinos A,Vergadis C,Oikonomou D,Baili E,Sougioultzis S,Moris D,Liakakos T

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oral cavity cancers are on the increase in the UK. Understanding site-specific epidemiological trends is important for cancer control measures. This study demonstrates the changing epidemiological trends in lip, intra-oral cavity and tongue base cancers in south-east England from 1987 to 2006. AIM: METHODS...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Olaleye O,Ekrikpo U,Lyne O,Wiseberg J

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of inhaled foreign bodies in the respiratory tract and problems in their removal are reviewed with reference to experience in a series of 41 cases, 36 of them in children under 4 years old. Bronchoscopic removal under general anaesthesia is preferred to inhalational therapy and postural drainage. ...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Bose P,El Mikatti N

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:INTRODUCTION Central venous catheterisation (CVC) is a commonly performed procedure in a wide variety of hospital settings and is associated with appreciable morbidity. There is a paucity of literature focusing on mechanical complications specifically in the trauma setting. The aim of our study was to determine the sp...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Odendaal J,Kong VY,Sartorius B,Liu TY,Liu YY,Clarke DL

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer is the second most common cancer in the Western world, and yet the survival after potentially curative excisional surgery has improved little over the last half century. Newer tumour prognostic markers are not superior to conventional Dukes' staging and there are currently no markers which predict re...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Rayter Z,Leicester RJ,Mansi JL

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotherapy may cause oral ulceration but a thorough investigation of symptoms and signs is important to determine the underlying diagnosis accurately. We describe a case of a patient with a poorly differentiated urothelial carcinoma of the bladder developing a tongue metastasis. This is a challenging diagnosis to ma...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Kaleva AI,Hone RW,Szakacs SM,Streeter E,Nixon IJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A postoperative radiograph demonstrated a folded radio-opaque structure in the nasopharynx, resembling a retained throat pack, despite her not having any respiratory symptoms. Retention of a throat pack is a never event. ...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Cousin G,Markose G

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) is often used for patients who would not previously have been treated, due for example, to their poor general condition or their symptoms being relatively mild. The approximate overall initial success and complication rates are 80% and 10%, respectively. Iliac angioplasties ...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Armstrong MW,Torrie EP,Galland RB

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a personal series of 162 tumours, 101 were pleomorphic adenomas 28 of which were removed by elective local extra capsular dissection and 73 by a conventional nerve dissection. There were no recurrences in either group after a mean follow-up 10.3 years, range 3-21 years for local dissection and 8.3 years, range 3-22...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Hancock BD

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:There has been a shift away from gross anatomy teaching and hands-on cadaveric dissection. This has been replaced by a variety of teaching modalities including problem-based learning, models and prosections, and computer-assisted learning. We aim to pilot a technique of endoscopic visualisation of upper li...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Matteucci P,Lagopoulos M,Southern S

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of all weekday emergency surgery performed in a district general hospital over an 18-month period was undertaken to assess the impact of a fully staffed, daytime operating theatre for emergency surgery on night-time operating and on consultant supervision of trainees. In the 12 months following the...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Barlow AP,Wilkinson DA,Wordsworth M,Eyre-Brook IA

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterobius vermicularis is responsible for a variety of diseases but rarely affects the liver. Accurate characterisation of suspected liver metastases is essential to avoid unnecessary surgery. In the presented case, following a diagnosis of rectal cancer, a solitary liver nodule was diagnosed as a liver metastasis du...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Roberts KJ,Hubscher S,Mangat K,Sutcliffe R,Marudanayagam R

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Admission for overnight or longer hospital stay from a day-case unit is an unwelcome event. This audit was designed to identify the incidence of unplanned admissions and also to detect the potential factors for such overstays. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Details of plastic surgical day-case patients were obtaine...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Mandal A,Imran D,McKinnell T,Rao GS

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tubular ectasia of the rete testis is a pathologically benign process with complex and varied aetiology. It must be differentiated from neoplastic disease of the testis clinically with patient age, mode of presentation, tumour marker status and the characteristic ultrasound and Doppler study findings. Awareness and di...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Nair R,Abbaraju J,Rajbabu K,Anjum F,Sriprasad S

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Serious complications of laparoscopic fundoplication (LF) have been reported by surgeons new to LF. We investigated whether the reported benefits of LF could be realised by an established consultant, new to LF, without compromising safety, control of reflux or dysphagia rates obtained after open surgery. PA...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Tan LC,Samanta S,Hosking SW

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 50 patients who had scrape cytology of the excision cavity after conservative surgery for breast carcinoma, 10 (20%) had malignant cells remaining in the cavity recognised by cytology. Of these patients, 18 had histological evidence of tumour at the resection margin, giving an accuracy of the cytology of 84%, a sen...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Lucarotti ME,White H,Deas J,Silver IA,Leaper DJ

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 15 years, 32 cases of tuberculosis have been seen and diagnosed in the surgical and gynaecological departments of the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield. The average age of patients was 42.8 years. Of the sites affected, 17 had head, neck or axillary swellings, 6 affected the female genital tract, 3 ha...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Hodgson TJ,Duncan JL,Rogers K

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extraskeletal Ewing sarcoma (EES) is a rare soft tissue neoplasm of primitive mesenchymal cells. There is a scarcity of data on EES involving the head and neck, with studies being over years or even decades. We are the first to report a case of EES involving the carotid artery and its subsequent surgical excision and ...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Kallala R,Nikkhah D,Nix P,Woodhead C

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 24 patients where the lower border of a cervical goitre was poorly defined, the value of simple lung function tests in the prediction of the presence of a retrosternal goitre was assessed. At operation there were nine patients with retrosternal extension (Group I) and 15 without (Group II). The preoperative PEF rat...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Stephenson BM,Shandall AA,Griffith GH

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients undergoing inguinal herniorrhaphy developed transient quadriceps paresis after local inguinal nerve block. One sustained a compound fracture of the distal tibia and fibula. The importance of warning the patient and of increasing the awareness of nursing staff to the possibility of quadriceps weakness afte...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Széll K

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The internet provides the public with unregulated access to a wide range of medications. We present the case of a 43-year-old man who purchased oral tadalafil gel on the internet and injected it into his left radial artery. He presented 48 hours after injection with signs of ischaemia distal to the injection site requ...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Vaughan EM,Yeung D,West CC,Tadros A,Curnier A

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In cases where surgeons face litigation over operative misadventure, the result of a trial is uncertain. In order to identify factors in cases of surgical litigation that have influenced the final decision of the courts, we have previously reviewed reported cases where the outcome turned on actions taken by surgeons. ...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Wheeler R,Blackburn S,Biggs H

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new definition of the iliotibial tract is made. Its anatomical and physical characteristics are summarised and its known functions discussed. The various postures adopted by standing Man are looked at and one resting posture is closely analysed. Hence a new role is proposed for the iliotibial tract. In the hip bone ...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Evans P

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Ureteric stenting is a common urological procedure. Forgotten stents have a well-documented morbidity and mortality. Therefore, we asked the question, is a stent register an important factor in reducing the number of lost or overdue stents? PATIENTS AND METHODS:We conducted a retrospective review of 203 p...

journal_title：Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

authors： Tang VC,Gillooly J,Lee EW,Charig CR

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00