Background: Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease that can affect any part of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract including the mouth. Bowel symptoms are predominant. Oral involvement may precede the GI symptoms. This case report presents a patient affected by Crohn’s disease with oral onset. Case presentation: We present a 30-year-old pregnant woman complaining of chronic, ...

We present a clinical case of acute hepatitis confirmed by liver biopsy. A 24-year-old patient underwent pulse therapy with methylprednisolone due to the onset multiple sclerosis. The enzyme values were within normal range 15 days later. Blood tests revealed development cytolysis syndrome during an unrelated medical examination two months Obvious causes excluded, and biopsy was performed verify...

We describe a case of 2-month-old girl presented with more than 60 papules and nodules hemangiomas involving the skin sclera, endocanthion, lower lip, labium majus pudenda without visceral laboratory abnormality. A biopsy showed numerous scattered, clearly limited, irregular cellular lobules in dermis circumvoluted into capillaries comprising incomplete vessel walls, which was consistent diagno...

Introduction: Colon adenocarcinoma is one of the foremost causes of cancer mortality. Oral metastasis of colon adenocarcinoma is, however, rare and indicates an end-stage disease process.   Case Report: We report a case of a 69-year-old female with a gingival mass diagnosed with colon adenocarcinoma and liver metastasis after one year. A swelli...

Amalgam tattoos are common exogenous pigmented lesions of the oral mucosa occurring mainly by inadvertent placement of amalgam particles into soft tissues. The diagnosis of amalgam tattoo is simple, usually based on clinical findings associated with presence or history of amalgam fillings removal. Intraoral X-rays may be helpful in detecting amalgam-related radiopacity. In cases where amalgam t...

Esophageal lichen planus (ELP) is rare and only about 80 cases have been reported in the literature. An 85-year-old woman presented with dysphagia and odynophagia. Endoscopy revealed a severe stricture in the proximal esophagus. Oral examinations at two years after the first endoscopy revealed erosions around the gingiva, and an examination of biopsy specimens taken from the site of erosion led...

To assess the immunocytochemical and immunohistochemical correlation of adhesion (E-cadherin) and cell differentiation (involucrin) molecules in oral leukoplakia and oral squamous cell carcinoma. Cytological samples and biopsies were obtained from male and female patients aged over 30 years with oral leukoplakia (n = 30) and oral squamous cell carcinoma (n = 22). Cell scrapings and the biopsy w...

INTRODUCTION The effect of a prolonged oral anti-inflammatory therapy on PSA values in patients with persistent abnormal PSA values after negative prostate biopsy (PBx) was evaluated. MATERIAL AND METHODS From September 2011 to September 2012, 70 patients (medi- an age 62 years), with persistent abnormal PSA values after negative extended PBx, were given an herbal extract with anti-inflammato...

BACKGROUND In the United States, transjugular renal biopsies using the Quickcore side cut needle system have previously been described primarily for transjugular renal biopsy in patients with concurrent liver and kidney disease. METHODS We describe transjugular renal biopsy with the Quickcore trade mark system in 9 patients with nephrotic syndrome and contraindications to percutaneous renal b...

The objective of the current study was to evaluate the sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) of submucous nodules from the oral cavity and head and neck region as an auxiliary diagnostic tool. Fifty patients with nodule lesions in the oral cavity and the head and neck region were selected. All of them were submitted to FNAB and to either incisional or exc...