She continued to believe that she was pregnant, and would pull down her trousers or lie on a table in a lithotomy position to 'deliver'. The patient began cramming food without choking 2 months ...

If, upon examining the patient in the lithotomy position, it is unclear whether an enterocele exists, have the patient stand with one leg on a short stool and repeat the physical exam. Place one ...

This diagnostic quandary can sometimes be resolved by first performing the examination with the patient in the lithotomy position and placing one finger in the rectum and another finger in the ...

Other positions on the table — the lithotomy, for example — surely can produce strain for which the anesthetic is blamed. Unsuspected tumor metastases to the spine may be present when spinal ...

It's simply not something we're experienced in. "We would normally deliver the baby in the lithotomy position". The lithotomy position refers to lying on the back with knees bent above the hips ...

A mother of three has claimed she was left with "life changing" medical conditions after being treated at a Huntingdonshire hospital.

Throughout his medical career, he became something of an expert in lithotomy, a surgical method used to remove stones formed in certain organs. It was through this expertise that he encountered ...