We present the case of a 67-year old male with decompensating haemorrhagic shock secondary to atraumatic splenic rupture on a background of an inadequately treated complicated appendicitis originally ...

Study design: Case report with a review of scientific literature. Objective: To describe the course of tuberculous spinal disease (Pott's disease) complicated by pyogenic and tuberculous empyema, and ...

A young man in his 20s presented with shortness of breath for 2 hours, with a history of fever and abdominal pain for 10 days. On preliminary examination, he was visibly tachypnoeic and hypotensive, ...

A NEW nationwide study finds that neurosurgical intervention significantly reduces the risk of death and complications in adult patients with brain abscess compared to non-operative care, underscoring ...

A 50-year-old man presenting with sudden onset right upper quadrant pain and no constitutional symptoms was found to have two necrotic liver masses on imaging, consistent with hepatic abscesses ...

1 Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon. 2 Neurosurgery Department, Yaoundé Central Hospital, Yaoundé, Cameroon. 3 Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical ...

Disseminated actinomycosis is a rare, slowly progressing infection caused by Actinomyces species and can manifest as the formation of multiple abscesses and sulfur granules in infected tissues. In ...

Background Aortic root abscess formation is amongst the most serious complications of Infective Endocarditis (IE). Over the past two decades, the incidence of IE in Europe has doubled. The presence of ...

Prostatic abscess due to fungi is a rare condition. It is generally secondary to systemic disease in immunosuppressed patients. We discuss the diagnostic and the management of this disease. A 77-y-old ...

1 Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon. 2 Neurosurgery Department, Yaoundé Central Hospital, Yaoundé, Cameroon. 3 Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical ...