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 ...

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 ...

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 spleen is an organ situated behind the stomach, in the upper left part of the abdomen known as the left hypochondrium. It is located under the ribcage and therefore is not usually felt by the ...

Background Rupture of the spleen in the absence of trauma or previously diagnosed disease is largely ignored in the emergency literature and is often not documented as such in journals from other ...

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 ...