Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to O Atalabi.
Abdominal cocoon is a rare cause of acute intestinal obstruction seen almost exclusively in young adolescent females. Almost all cases are diagnosed at surgery and cured by excising the fibrous cocoon. This case although diagnosed accidentally too was treated conservatively successfully.
This is a case of an occult follicular thyroid carcinoma in a 61 year old civil servant presenting with bony metastasis to the left iliac bone twenty years after an initial subtotal thyroidectomy. There was a soft tissue mass with associated cup shaped Iytic detruction of the iliac bone and on ultrasound scan the mass was found to be of mixed echogenicity and areas of sonolucencies which were due to necroses. At autopsy, the thyroid gland appeared macroscopically within normal limits but histology confirmed Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma.