Tendinosis is an important cause of musculoskeletal pain and disability. Tendinosis is principally a degenerative process, rather than inflammatory as was traditionally believed. Consequently, traditional tendinosis treatments focused solely on decreasing inflammation, i.e. intratendinous corticosteroid injection has often been ineffective. The advancement of ultrasonography as for the guidance of musculoskeletal intervention has facilitated the development of percutaneous procedures focused on the regenerative healing process for the treatment of tendinosis. In this article, our aim is to illustrate the technical aspects of ultrasound-guided percutaneous needle tenotomy for the treatment of tendinosis.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are mesenchymal tumors that can arise in any part of gastrointestinal tract. It is commonly seen in the fifth or sixth decade of life with slight male preponderance.Intussusception and subsequent obstruction is a very uncommon presentation of these lesions because of their tendency to grow in an extraluminal fashion. In the literature, very few cases of small bowel intussusceptions from a stromal tumor in adults have been described. We report a rare case of GIST presenting as acute intestinal obstruction due to intussusception in an elderly male.
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