A55-year-old woman with no significant medical history was admitted to hospital with a 3-
day episode of severe pain in the right upper abdominal quadrant. She denied any …

46-year-old woman presented with an acute onset of severe right upper quadrant abdominal
pain for 1 day, associated with anorexia and vomiting. On examination there was local …

A 55-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 12-hour history of severe
crampy abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and obstipation. The patient had a complex …

A 28-year-old man was seen in the emergency department with a 5-day history of left lower
quadrant abdominal pain, which he described as severe and well localized without …

A previously healthy 75-year-old woman presented to the Emergency Department with a 24--
hour history of worsening rightsided abdominal pain. She had been seen the previous day …

A32-year-old man was admitted through the Emergency Department with a 12-hour history
of severe right lower quadrant pain. There was no history of nausea, vomiting or change of …

It can occur from days to years after the procedure. Its estimated frequency is approximately
0.1%, 1, 2 and close to 300 cases have been reported in the medical literature. Endoscopy …

The hematoma can be seen in Fig. 1. The patient was also investigated with small-bowel
followthrough radiography, which showed that contrast passed by this lesion, which partially …

On admission he had an elevated [alpha]-fetoprotein level (221 [mu] g/L). Computed
tomography (Fig. 1) showed a dilated biliary tree, 2 enhancing lesions in segments 6 and 7 …

A 44 year old man presented to the surgical team with a three week history of a sensation of
increasing tightness of the lower abdominal wall. There had been no obvious precipitating …