CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - South Carolina’s Insurance Reserve Fund has paid the estate of a Dorchester County man $1 million after doctors at the Medical University of South Carolina left a blade ...
GASTROSCOPY with the flexible, finger-tip instrument is, as a rule, an innocuous diagnostic procedure. The sudden onset of pneumoperitoneum during the course of this examination, however, is a ...
The liver produces bile, which has many functions, including elimination of waste processed by the liver and digestion of fat. Bile is temporarily stored in the gallbladder (an organ situated ...
We read with great interest the paper by Peng et al. (1) that studied different CO2 pneumoperitoneum pressures during laparoscopic pyeloplasty in infants. It is a critical study with essential ...
ABSTRACT: Introduction: Pneumoperitoneum is a radiologic term denoting an abnormal collection of air in the peritoneal cavity. It reflects visceral perforation. Pneumoperitoneum without visceral ...
Delays or errors in diagnosing pneumoperitoneum, with air outside the intestines within the peritoneal cavity, can severely impact patient survival and health outcomes. In adults, most cases result ...
PULMONARY emphysema is one of the most common, disabling and chronically progressive diseases seen in a general hospital. The usual sequence of emphysema, bronchitis, fibrosis and progressive ...
This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this ...