Hypoglycaemia in Metastatic Fibrosarcoma of the Liver

GERIATRIC SURGICAL EMERGENCY BxrICH surgery, precipitously arranged at inconvenient hours, would add much to the patients' prospect of recovery. Vascular LesionsThese cases are included in the interest of completeness.Of the 10 patients, four had major limb gangrene on admission, and all died.with or without amputation, one had mesenteric occlusion, and three had leaking aortic aneurysms, and all died.The only survivors were two patients who underwent local amputation of gangrenous toes.Miscellaneous This group allows no useful analysis, as it contains such varied conditions as bleeding colonic neoplasms, polyposis of the ileum.and a wide variety of abscesses, the total of 17 cases including nine operations with four deaths and an overall mortality of 53%.