Objectives To determine the incidence and nature of complications on a general surgery
service and to compare these results with pre-existing institutional recording and reporting …

To determine the benefit of palliative surgery for patients with advanced ovarian cancer and
bowel obstruction and to identify criteria for selecting patients who are most likely to benefit …

… She was admitted for total correction of the tetralogy at the age of 6 years, but her hemoglobin
level was only 77 g/L and there was occult blood in the stool. Results of barium studies …

The provision of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy and colonoscopy is essential to the
health and well-being of the Canadian public. In continuing to address this health care need, …

: Spontaneous internal fistulas involving intestine, rectum, bladder, or vagina in patients
without predisposing illnesses were studied. Twelve of 20 (60 percent) were receiving steroids …

Delayed rupture of the spleen is a rare but serious complication of blunt abdominal trauma.
A 47-year-old woman with a history of fractured pelvis from a motor vehicle accident 6 …

When conservative management of intestinal obstruction fails, the surgeon has two operative
choices for decompression: the open procedure with enterotomies and suction and the …

A retrospective study was conducted to determine the relationship between cigarette smoking
and diverticular disease of the colon. One hundred and two patients undergoing barium …

A 43-year-old man was admitted because of severe right upper quadrant pain. Twelve
years previously he had suffered a shotgun injury to the epigastrium and had undergone …

The brain’s default mode network has a central role in the processing of information concerning
oneself. Dysfunction in this self-referential processing represents a key component of …