Bleeding per rectum (BPR), often noticed as blood in stool or blood on toilet paper, is a common symptom that can feel alarming. While not always serious, it should never be ignored.
Finding a lump in the breast can be extremely stressful, but not all lumps are harmful. Two of the most commonly confused conditions are fibroadenoma and breast cancer.
Have you recently noticed a lump, fullness, or swelling at the front of your neck? Many people ignore it at first—thinking it's just weight gain or muscle tension
The appendix is a narrow, hollow, blind-ended tube connected to the cecum. It has large aggregations of lymphoid tissue in its walls and is suspended from the terminal ileum by the mesoappendix.
According to Love and Bailey's "A Short Practice of Surgery", shock is defined as a state of circulatory inadequacy with impaired tissue perfusion leading to cellular hypoxia and dysfunction.
According to Love and Bailey's "A Short Practice of Surgery", shock is defined as a state of circulatory inadequacy with impaired tissue perfusion leading to cellular hypoxia and dysfunction.
According to Love and Bailey's "A Short Practice of Surgery", acute pancreatitis is defined as an acute inflammatory condition of the pancreas with varying involvement of other regional tissues or remote organ systems.
According to Love and Bailey's "A Short Practice of Surgery", the gallbladder is a pear-shaped muscular sac located on the visceral surface of the liver that serves as a reservoir for bile. It plays a crucial role in the storage, concentration, and release of bile into the duodenum.
An inguinal hernia is the protrusion of abdominal contents (usually intestine or omentum) through a weak point in the lower abdominal wall in the inguinal region, either through the inguinal canal or its posterior wall.
"A hernia is an abnormal protrusion of an organ or tissue through an opening in the layer that normally confines it." According to Bailey & Love's Short Practice of Surgery