Kenneth Kee: 522 books

This book describes Meckel Diverticulum, Diagnosis and Treatment and Related Diseases. A month ago I have a 2 year old patient who presents with severe abdominal pain and blood in the stools. Because of the severe pain and the age I suspected Intussusception, a congenital condition in which...

Urinary Stones are small, solid stones which occur when salts or minerals in the urine become solid crystals inside the kidney. Urinary Stones are formed usually because of the accumulation of salts and minerals especially calcium in the urine. Usually the stones may be so small that...

The colon is also known as the large intestine and a part of the digestive system. It's a long, hollow tube about 6 feet in length at the end of the digestive tract where the body makes and stores stool. It can cause various symptoms including bleeding, infection and perforation. Many...

Bad Breath or Halitosis is the condition when a person suffers from chronic bad breath. What are the causes of Bad Breath? Halitosis is usually caused by the following: Infections: bacterial infection of the gums, dental cavities.(600 types of bacteria present in mouth) anaerobic...

Chapter 1 Parathyroid Diseases The parathyroid glands are located at the back of the Thyroid glands in humans and produce the parathyroid hormone. They are the size of a grain of rice. There are usually four parathyroid glands, which are usually located on the rear surface...

Uterine Fibroids are medical benign tumors (non-cancerous) of the smooth muscles of the uterine cavity.They are the most frequent tumor found in women (25%) especially after the age of 35.Uterine fibroids are tumors that grow in a woman's womb (uterus).These growths are normally not cancerous...

An auto immune disease is a disease of the human body where the immune system of the body attacks its own cells in the joints as in Rheumatoid arthritis Or in the skin as in psoriasis Or in the muscles as in Myasthenia gravis Or throughout the body as in Systemic Lupus Erythematosis There are...

How do you make a profit online? There are so many jobs that you can do online. Filling a survey online, reading articles online, are sure ways to make money but you will make much more money by marketing online. Key facts 1.How do you get started? Focus Study method of successful...

Congenital Heart Disease is an abnormality or defect in the heart when the baby is born.Congenital Heart Disease is the most common serious birth defect and occurs in 0.7 per cent of children.Who is at risk of having a Congenital Heart Disease?Familial:1. Poor development...

What is Deafness? Deafness is the inability to hear. What are the causes of Deafness? The causes of Deafness are: A. Conductive hearing loss Here sound waves cannot be transmitted from the external environment to the cochlea. The problem may lie in the external...

Baker’s cystA few months ago I had this patient who consulted me over a swelling at the back of his right knee which he felt was growing bigger.Having felt the swelling I suspected that it was a popliteal cyst.To exclude any other possible causes such as tumors or meniscus cyst,...

SPINAL STENOSIS Lumbar Spinal Stenosis is a condition due to the narrowing of the spinal canal either in the central part or peripheral (lateral) to the side in the nerve root canal. This results in pain in one leg without back pain Every one can get Lumbar Spinal Stenosis. The...

Backache is one of the most common complaints by patients seen in a family doctor's clinic. The complaint may be: Constant aching, pain or stiffness that occurs anywhere along your spine, from the base of the neck to the hips. Sharp pain in the neck, upper back, or lower back,...

Heel pain is the pain which is felt in the heel either when standing too long or when walking. It occurs more in women than in men maybe because they tend to wear high heel shoes more than in men. What are the causes of Heel Pain? The most common cause is Plantar fascilitis...