A 62-year-old woman presented with septic shock and was referred after the results of an initial laparotomy were negative. Afterward, she was persistently hypotensive and required mechanical ventilation. Abdominal computed tomographic imaging revealed free air in her upper abdomen and diffuse thickening of the entire colon. Flexible sigmoidoscopy showed patchy areas of mucosal necrosis in the c...

A 7-year-old boy presented with a history of acute onset of hematuria, dysuria, and suprapubic pain. Urine routine and microscopy showed 40-45 red cells/high power field. Urine culture was sterile. Radiological investigations showed a focal mucosal lesion with bladder wall thickening. Biopsy of the lesion revealed an edematous mucosa with florid infiltration by eosinophils into the muscularis p...

BACKGROUND Herpes simplex virus (HSV) has been shown to cause respiratory tract infections mostly in severely immunocompromised patients. Endobronchial tumor-like lesions have been described very rarely as HSV pulmonary manifestations in critically ill patients or in immunosuppressed individuals. CASE PRESENTATION This case study describes a 75-yr-old male who presented with persistent hoarse...

Neurofibromatosis (NF) is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder with a myriad of clinical manifestations . A gastrointestinal involvement which is present in 10 -25% of patients, is usually a systemic manifestation of generalised NF. We are describing a case of NF 1 with chronic constipation, in whom colonoscopy revealed a thickening of the colon wall with narrowing. A mucosal biopsy showed ne...

The present study was conducted to study the pathology of the Sudanese sheep in Elshaheed Nasr Eldeen slaughter house, Khartoum-North, Sudan. The prevalence of foreign body in rumen is substantially high. Haematology revealed decrease in RBC, PCV, Hb and MCV whereas there is increase in MCH and MCHC which indicated microcytic hyperchromic anaemia. Necropsy of rumens revealed congestion, haemorr...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Sulcus vocalis is an epithelial invagination adherent to deep tissues of the vocal fold. Traditionally, dysphonia is believed to result from attenuation or absence of lamina propria and consequent alteration of mucosal dynamics. This conception does not account for several clinical features of the lesion, most notably inflammation. The goal of this study is to elucidate th...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effect of subclinical Helicobacter pylori infection on the gastric wall thickness with multislice computed tomography (MSCT). MATERIALS AND METHODS In 99 subjects without gastric disease, CT scans of the abdomen were obtained after water ingestion and intravenous contrast administration. CT images were evaluated for degree of luminal distention and the thickness of the...

CONTEXT Only a few studies evaluated the digestive alterations caused by low frequency noise (LFN) and most focused only on mucosal alterations. OBJECTIVES To investigate the morphological injury of LFN-exposed gastric wall, beyond the epithelial layer. METHODS Wistar rats were exposed to low frequency noise (LFN), during increasing periods, 1 to 13 weeks. A control group was kept in silenc...

Clinical and radiological aspects of 86 patients with oro-antral fistulae were studied and two commonly employed methods of repair were compared. Fistulae were found to be twice as common in males as in females. The highest frequency was recorded in the fourth decade (41%), and the commonest site was the first molar region (49%). All patients had antral infection which is attributed to the long...