Deficiency of the mesentery over the lower ileum
โ Scribed by George E. Armstrong
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1921
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 259 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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โฆ Synopsis
BY one of those strange coincidences that we are all familiar with, the two patients presenting thc rare anomaly that I now report were in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, at the same time. The anomaly consists in the absence of a mesentery for the terminal six or seven inches of the ileum (Figs. 280,281).
My own case was a man, age 33 years, sent up t o me as a case oP recurring appendicitis.
He gave a history of having had three attacks at intervals of a month or six weeks. The
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