eosinophilic gastroenteritis is a rare disease of unknown etiology. it is characterized by eosinophilic infiltration of the gastrointestinal tract wall (especially stomach and small bowel). symptoms and signs of this disease depend on the involved layer of gastrointestinal tract. hereby, we are presenting a patient with abdominal pain since one month ago that aggregated with meals. the patient ...

Background and Aims: The diagnosis of Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS), an allergic granulomatosis involving smalland medium-sized vessels, requires the presence of at least four of six criteria including asthma, peripheral eosinophilia, and systemic vasculitis. The gastrointestinal manifestations have never been reviewed. Methods: The 75 articles in the English literature found by electronic searc...

Introduction:  Eosinophilic mucin rhinosinusitis is a type of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). Diagnosis and treatment of this condition play a significant role in reducing the patients’ clinical symptoms. This type of rhinosinusitis has a higher relapse rate, compared to the other types. This disease is more resistant to treatment and more dependent on corticosteroid therapy, compared to the oth...

Undifferentiated Embryonal Sarcoma (UES) of the liver is a rare predominantly pediatric malignancy. Only one brief report of cytologic findings in ascitic fluid of a recurrent tumor is available. The characteristic eosinophilic hyaline globules (HG) with immunohistochemistry on fluid cytology, has not previously been documented. A 20-year-old male presented with ascites. Cytology revealed a spa...

eosinophilic granuloma is benign end of the spectrum of the langerhans cell histiocytosis (lch) which is characterized by solitary or multiple lesions in bones, skin, lung, lymph node etc. here, we present a case of a 13-year old boy with pain and swelling in the right parietal region of skull with no other complaint. a computerized tomography (ct) scan and subsequent fine needle aspiration cyt...

a 7 year-old male presented with recurrent fever, cough and respiratory distress for over last 2 years. based on extremely high eosinophil count, high immunoglobulin e, increase in eosinophilic precursors in bone marrow, and positive antigen test for wuchereria bancrofti, a diagnosis of tropical pulmonary eosinophilia with eosinophilic leukemoid reaction was made. complete recovery was achieved...

eosinophilic cholecystitis (ec) is a rare entity that presents in a manner comparable to acute cholecystitis. the diagnosis is based on classical symptoms of cholecystitis with the presence of eosinophils (>90%) within the gallbladder. ec has been reported alone (idiopathic ec) or in combination with manifestations such as eosinophilic cholangitis, hypereosinophilic syndromes, and parasitic inf...

pulmonary hypertension syndrome (ascites) is a metabolic disorder in fast-growing broilers. inconsistency of oxygen requirement and the cardiovascular ability make the birds susceptible to ascites. incidence of ascites was accompanied by right ventricular hypertrophy, fluid accumulation in the abdominal cavity and finally mortality. the objective of the current study was to review the genetic b...