Unbounded Medicine

Lakshmi is the hindu goddess of of wealth, fortune, love and beauty, the lotus flower and fertility. She is represented by an icon of a lady with four arms.

Lakshmi Tatma is a girl who is two years old but she was born with 8 limbs, because she is joined at the pelvis to what is, […]

This surgical model is made of glass fiber and has abdominal and thoracic compartments separated. A selective bronchial intubation can be done in this model. It also has a structure that simulates a diaphragm. You can perform both laparoscopy and thoracoscopy.
The organs of a pig are placed within the model.

The model is intubated with an […]

A previously healthy 63 years old male underwent laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication. Pneumoperitonium was induced with CO2 at a pressure of 13 mmHg. 30 minutes later, he developed hypercarbia (44mmHg) and subcutaneous emphysema without hemodynamic instability, desaturation or fever. Other causes of hypercarbia was ruled out. The procedure was uneventful and completed successfully. Pneumoperitoneum was released. […]

This is how a Crohn’s disease looks in colonoscopy.

This is a case of a 67 years old male with history of chronic constipation (20 years) and chronic hemorrhoidal disease came to the office with rectal bleeding and a non-redicible anal mass.
On physical examination we found Grade IV hemorrhoidal disease.

We decide to perform a PPH procedure with an hemorrhoidal circular stapler (33 mm) kit.

Note […]

A previously healthy 27 years old female came to the emergency department with a chief complaint of one-month diffuse and intermitent abdominal pain, transitory relief with bowel movements, nausea without vomit, early saciety, postprandial fullness and weight loss of 4 kilos in 1 month.
On the physical exam, we found a 10×15 cm tumor in the […]

A 68 year old female patient came to the E.D. with a chief complaint of sudden, severe epigastric pain, retching without vomitus and distention of the upper abdomen.
The patient was alert, very anxious, and in severe pain.
blood pressure of 160/120; pulse of 126; respiratory rate of 24; normal temperature; SatO2 of 96% without O2 supplement.
She […]

Byron and Lincoln Ryman were born within a minute of each other, first Byron (3lb 6oz) was precisely three times bigger than his brother.
Eleven weeks premature, both boys were given a little chance of survival - particularly Lincoln, weighing only 1lb 2oz at birth.
But yesterday this twins, now they are five weeks old, are doing […]

Kylie Hodgson gave birth to twin daughters by caesarean section, then she realised a difference between them.
This amazing conception happened after two eggs were fertilised at the same time in the womb.
The odds against of a mixed race couple having twins of dramatically different colour are a million to one.
Skin colour is believed to be […]

This is the case of a 69 years old diabetic female patient with history of subtotal colectomy for advanced colon cancer a year ago.
She had a surgical complication of the abdominal wall called postincisional hernia and came to surgical consult because of this giant ventral hernia. This is one of the largest hernias I’ve ever […]

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A missionary in Eastern Europe recently reported an extremely rare (condylomatosis) skin condition. This disease is called Lewandowsky-Lutz dysplasia. This missionary wrote:
I found this man, and other than his hands and feet, he looked and seemed in good health. As best as I could gather these growths began when he was 14 years […]

Previous proof of firecrackers injuries here.
For those who don’t believe in injuries caused by firecrackers explotion. I just saw a patient in the E.R. of my hospital who came because he was walking near a park and some kids were buying firecrakers in the street. A kid ignited a firecracker and it exploted next to […]

The neuropathologist Diana Rivas from Perú runs a Museum of brains and she states that this show is unique in the World.
This museum has an inventory of 2,998 brains and counting. Rivas studies neurological diseases and psychiatric disorders but, unlike prestigious brain banks around the World, she allows entrance to the general public.
There is a […]

A baby who weighed 6.4 kilograms (14.10 lb) and measured more than 55 centimeters (1.8 ft), was born in Cancún.
His parents call him “Super Toño”. Antonio Vasconcelos -the baby- gained 200 grams in the first three days.
The mother of Antonio, Teresa Alejandra Cruz, of 23 years, is probably diabetic, because seven years ago this woman […]

This is the previously patented surgical retractor developed by Dr. Ángel Raúl Soriano Sánchez (Mexican Ob/Gyn from the National Institute for Social Security - IMSS) in action.

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This amazing invention looks useful, isn’t it?