Frank C. Wheelock

An Evaluation of the Anterior Resection of the Rectum and Low Sigmoid

CARCINOMA of the rectosigmoid area of the colon is of common occurrence and fortunately is productive of early symptoms. Carcinomas in this location account for 60 per cent of all cases in the colo...

Case 5-1969

Presentation of Case A fifty-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of pain in the foot. He had been in good health until nine months previously, when he began to experience crampy pain ...

Case 41-1977

Presentation of Case A 68-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of dehydration. There was a long history of peripheral vascular disease. Fifteen years before entry bleeding occurred fro...

Case 7-1976

Presentation of Case A 38-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of bleeding per rectum. There was a long history of alcohol abuse and chronic liver disease, with slight chronic anemia...

Case 25-1981

Presentation of Case A 40-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of recurrent gastrointestinal bleeding. Ten years earlier she underwent surgical repair of a hiatus hernia at another h...