Abstract: This editorial reemphasizes the importance of case report communications to a scientific medical journal. It defines a case report, the content of a case study, significance and contribution of medical case reports to the advancement of medicine and medical education. This editorial also presents in brief the beneficial role of case communications in preventing and controlling the emergence of epidemics and pandemics in the public health perspective.

Abstract: Osteoma of external auditory canal is a rare benign tumour. Usually slow growing, found incidentally and often symptomless. Rarely an osteoma may present as a simple aural polyp and may be mistaken as polyps arising secondary to tuberculous,chronic otitis media or carcinoma. The presentation of an osteoma as an aural polyp is extremely rare, and there have been very few reports published Here we have a case of osteoma in an eighteen years old male arising from the postero-superior wall of the external auditory canal masquerading as an aural polyp, causing decreased hearing and aural fullness which was relieved by removal of the tumour.

Abstract: We report a case of 40-year-old Caucasian woman gravida 3, para 2, with severe acute abdominal pain, bilious vomiting, closed bowel feces and gas for the last 24 hours. Plain abdominal radiographs showed multiple loops of dilated small bowel with air fluid levels. The patient underwent an exploratory laparotomy, which revealed two defects of the left broad ligament. A 160-cm length of the ileum had been herniated into the outer defect. As a gangrenous change was recognized in the incarcerated bowel, it was resected and an end-to-end anastomosis was performed, while the defects of the broad ligament were also closed. The postoperative course was uneventful. Six months after surgery, the patient does not report dysmenorrhea and dyspareunia, also she has a few symptoms of short bowel.