Random Medical and Weird I Find ALWAYS UPDATED * child warning

cheekymarls · #1 ● 09-13-2014, 08:50 PM

I am researching things and come across some amazing photos

random uploads

cheekymarls · #2 ● 09-13-2014, 08:50 PM

I am researching things and come across some amazing photos

random uploads

this is an egg emerging from an ovary
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cheekymarls · #3 ● 09-13-2014, 09:06 PM

a 54-year-old man with morbid obesity and congestive heart failure, who sought medical attention, complaining of difficulty breathing at night, swollen legs and weight gain. Physical examination revealed a large abdominal pannus (a thick sheet of skin and fat tissue hanging down from the belly) with lichenified skin containing cobblestone-like nodules and papules with hyperpigmentation. This large, heavy "apron" completely encircled the patient’s genitals and left a fibrotic tract from which he urinated. Ick!

cheekymarls · #4 ● 09-13-2014, 09:09 PM

Hanavadi et al. describe another case of a forgotten vaginal pessary that ate its way into the elderly wearer's rectum. This one is quite disgusting, actually. An 88-year woman was referred urgently to the surgical clinic with a history of vaginal discharge containing feces. Her practice nurse noticed that following an enema, it had expelled through the vagina. The lady also reported 6-8 weeks of constipation alternating with diarrhea and fecal incontinence. Earlier, her bowel habits had been normal.

On examination, she was frail, but well oriented. Abdominal examination was normal. Digital rectal examination showed fecal loading and a hard object was felt through the rectal wall. Feces were present within the vagina, along with a hard object high up, which turned out to be a pessary. However, the patient could not remember ever having been fitted with such a device.

She was examined more closely under anesthesia and it was determined that the handle of the forgotten pessary had eroded through the vaginal wall into the lower rectum, 8 cm from the anal verge. After the pessary was removed, something had to be done about the large rectovaginal fistula (just imagine passing feces through the vagina - ugh). Because the patient was too frail for reconstructive surgery, a colostomy was performed. Recovery was uneventful.

The article contained the following photo. I'm afraid it's pretty graphic. A red rubber tube has been passed into the elderly patient's rectum, through the defect and out of the vagina, demonstrating the abnormal connection between these anatomical structures.