Gastro-colic fistulas as a complication of benign gastric ulcers are relatively uncommon. The authors report a 59 year old caucasian female with a known hiatus hernia and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease presenting with diarrhoea and weight loss. Barium enema is the investigation of choice although it is important to exclude malignancy. Management is by en-bloc resection of the fistula with pr...

Diverticula of the large intestine have been recognized for the last 250 years. The first descriptions of diverticula resulted from postmortem examinations, the earliest of these being ascribed to the-French surgeon, Alexis Littre, in 1700. The condition has also been described by such time-honoured morbid pathologists as Matthew Baillie, Rudolf Virchow and Jean Cruveilhier, whose writings in I...

Diverticula of the large intestine have been recognized for the last 250 years. The first descriptions of diverticula resulted from postmortem examinations, the earliest of these being ascribed to the-French surgeon, Alexis Littre, in 1700. The condition has also been described by such time-honoured morbid pathologists as Matthew Baillie, Rudolf Virchow and Jean Cruveilhier, whose writings in I...

BACKGROUND There is a high prevalence of gastro-duodenal disease in sub-Saharan Africa. Peptic ulcer disease in dyspeptic patients, 24.5%, was comparable to prevalence of gastro-duodenal disease among symptomatic individuals in developed countries (12 - 25%). Limited data exists regarding its associated risk factors despite accumulating evidence indicating that gastroduodenal disease is common ...

UNLABELLED ᅟ: Listeria monocytogenes is a food-borne pathogen and the causative agent of listeriosis, a severe infection to those with a pre-disposition. Infections often arise through consumption of contaminated foods, where high intrinsic resistance to food processing practises permit survival and growth. Several practises, including refrigeration, acidification and oxygen limitation are inef...

Losso organspecific antigens has been shown to occur in epperimental and human carcinomas The present investigation, by serological and immunofluorescence methods, of a gastro-intestinal-specific antigen (Nairn et al., 1961; Nairn, 1962b) in human gastro-intestinal neoplasia demonstrates that loss of antigen is a feature of colonic and gastric carcinomas. Lesser degrees of depletion are found i...

celiac disease can be accompanied with multiorgan involvement in addition to gastro-intestinal involvement. a 16-year-old young man - known case of celiac disease - was admitted because of exacerbation of gastrointestinal complaints. during further investigations, hypothyroidism and membranous glomerulonephritis were discovered. the patient was improved with a gluten-free diet and specific trea...

Background: Gastro-intestinal anastomosis is mostly performed to correct the gastro-intestinal surgical disorders like obstruction, abdominal trauma, perforated bowel, intussusception and intestinal neoplasia etc. In early periods conventional was followed which evolved into a seromuscular pattern of suture technique in recent years. Stapled have higher tensile strength than sutured anastomosis...

A patient with complaints of an abdominal (mesenteric) mass is presented. Differential diagnosis included neoplastic processes, such as malignant lymphoma, desmoid tumour, a carcinoid or a gastro-intestinal stromal cell tumour. An oncological resection was performed. Despite the malignant appearance of the tumour no malignancy was found with histopathological examination. Vasculitic lesions wer...

THis useful manual contains a description of endoscopy as it applies to gastroenterology. There are a few black and white figures, largely to illustrate technical procedure but none to illustrate the appearances seen, and in this respect it is severly lacking. But ,as a resum6 of a subject which is beginning to be of increasing importance it provides a good introduction. The author speaks from ...