Showing papers by "Iris E. C. Sommer published in 1985"

Intestinal Buerger's disease.

Abstract: We describe a 50-year-old man who, at 26 years of age, underwent a hemicolectomy on the right side of the abdomen due to infarction of the right colon. At 35 years of age, a stenotic, ischemic segment of distal jejunum was resected. Later he had had intermittent claudication, migratory thrombophlebitis, and recurrent cerebral infarctions. The mesenteric and mural blood vessels of both resected specimens of bowel showed an occlusive process with organized and recent thrombi and marked transmural inflammation. The internal elastic lamina and media in the arteries were preserved and there was no evidence of atheroma or calcification. The histologic findings were consistent with thromboangiitis obliterans. We suggest that the same mechanism may be responsible for intestinal peripheral and cerebrovascular involvement.

Primary psoas abscess three years after ipsilateral nephrectomy.

Abstract: We report an unusual case of primary, right psoas abscess caused byProteus mirabilis which developed three years after ipsilateral nephrectomy The diagnosis was established by computer tomography, recommended today as superior to other diagnostic methods of demonstration for the retroperitoneum

A rare presentation of systemic salmonellosis

Abstract: We are reporting an unusual case of disseminatedSalmonella enteritidis D, phage group E2 infection in an 18-year-old male, which was resistant to massive antibiotic treatment. Rare complications such as pylephlebitis, mediastinal adenopathy, osteomyelitis with pathological clavicular fracture, osteitis and spondylitis were observed. We found an immunological defect that no doubt contributed to this severe illness.