A 27-year-old man incurred a false aneurysm of the peroneal artery secondary to an inversion injury to the ankle. A search of the literature disclosed no other cases of false aneurysms with ankle sprains. The false aneurysm of the peroneal artery appeared as a mass with a compressive neuropathy of the sural nerve. The diagnosis of false aneurysm of the peroneal artery following an inversion injury to the ankle should be suspected in cases of persistent localized swelling with inordinate pain that does not subside with elevation and immobilization and is associated with peroneal neuropathy.

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Vascular specificity in differentiating adrenal carcinoma from renal cell carcinoma.

Cases of adrenal and renal cell carcinoma were reviewed to evaluate vascular origin and architecture. All 9 cases of adrenal carcinoma showed fine, sparse neovascularity. Coarse or at least extensive, neovascularity was demonstrated in 40 of 45 cases of renal cell carcinoma. An analysis of the angiographic features correlated with the known anatomical variations will nearly always enable one to ascertain the origin of the tumor.

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Necrotizing fasciitis as a complication of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy.

Necrotizing fasciitis of the abdominal wall is a rare clinical entity. The following case study is the first report of necrotizing fasciitis as a complication of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy.

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Anterior sacral meningocele. Case report.

One woman (aged 20) and two men (aged 57 and 29, respectively) presented with various urinary and abdominal symptoms, all of which were found at operation to have been caused by anterior sacral meningoceles. All three recovered uneventfully, though the woman was left with some residual numbness of the thigh. Anterior sacral meningocele is a rare condition in which a dural sac herniates into the pelvic region through a congenital defect in the sacrum. Since 1837 182 cases have been reported, and most of them presented with gastroenterological or urogenital signs and symptoms. We have reviewed their symptomatology, pathogenesis and treatment.

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Patient with acute myocardial infarction receiving streptokinase therapy in the emergency department.

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