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Gallstone Ileus
14 Comments Published by Jon Mikel Iñarritu August 3rd, 2006 in Continuing Medical Education, Fast Facts, Medical ImagesGallstone Ileus is an infrequent cause of mechanical bowel obstruction. It is caused by an impaction of a gallstone in the terminal ileum by passing through a billiary-enteric fistula (often from duodenum). It occurs more frequently in women with average age of 70 years.
Clinical picture: Episodic subacute obstruction in an elderly female. Abdominal pain and [...]
Splenic Injury and Hemoperitoneum in Blunt Trauma
5 Comments Published by Jon Mikel Iñarritu August 3rd, 2006 in Continuing Medical Education, Fast Facts, Medical ImagesThe following pictures are from different clinical cases.
In Blunt Trauma the spleen and the liver are injuried in 40 and 20 percent, respectively.
In the ER, you have three four options in the Work-Up of a patient with blunt abdominal trauma
Peritoneal Lavage: Now just performed if you haven’t access to ultrasound (lack of money or lack [...]
USMLE-like exam results in Mexico
6 Comments Published by Jon Mikel Iñarritu October 30th, 2005 in Continuing Medical EducationHere in Mexico there is a similar exam to the USMLE, who is proposed to select those medicine graduated into residents to get a speciality.
This exam is called “Examen Nacional de Aspirantes a Residencias Médicas - ENARM” (National Exam of Aspirings to Medical Residences). This exam was on September 3rd and 4th this year, it [...]


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