Morbid obesity is often called the first global epidemic of the twenty-first century [1]. As in all epidemics, obesity raises wide concerns and represents a great challenge for current medical ...

Although no intense pelvic symptoms were found during the physical exam, the CT scan showed a wedge-like hypodense area in the spleen (Fig. 1, arrow) consistent with acute splenic infarction. Results ...

THE danger of high-altitude flying to patients with sicklemia, until lately, has been more theoretical than.real. As recently as 1951 Margolies 1 said that "the sickle cell trait is not a ...

Atraumatic splenic rupture is a rare but clinically significant event occurring in the absence of external trauma. Often representing the initial manifestation of underlying pathology—such as ...

Splenosis is the ectopic growth of benign splenic tissue that may be seen after splenectomy or splenic trauma. The differential diagnosis of an enhancing soft tissue lesion after intra-abdominal ...

The purpose of this paper is to report 2 additional cases of this syndrome and to show that in these cases conservative medical management was entirely satisfactory. Case l.§ A 22-year-old Negro ...