Acute gastric dilatation was first described by Duplay in 1833. Since the stomach has rich blood circulation, necrosis and perforation due to dilatation are rarely seen. Clinically, more than 90% of cases have complaints of vomiting. The most useful method to determine diagnosis and etiology is computerized tomography (CT). Medical treatment is suitable for cases that have no necrosis or perito...

The new CPEM (cooked potato effective mass) method was used to study the sloughing of a potato variety grown in two successive years in six regimes given by different levels and forms of fertilisation and irrigation. The sloughing process is characterized by the cooking time, i.e. the starting point of disintegration, and by the speed of disintegration. Both parameters are also evaluated in dep...

acute dysentery, it is par excellence in ordinary sloughing, as distinguished from gangrenous dysentery, where its curative, or rather its conservative power is conspicuously displayed. In this, the immediate danger is the extension of the sloughing into the gangrenous form, and even when this is averted, so much destruction of tissue as to involve subsequently cicatricial contraction and event...

The successful completion of esophageal reconstruction after esophagectomy is a great challenge in esophageal surgery. The gastric reconstruction is widely employed in benign and malignant esophageal disease. Compared to other digestive organs, stomach has a good blood supply and gastric procedure requires a single reconstructive anastomosis. The gastric tube is a durable graft, retaining its s...

Patients with acute pancreatitis may present with stress-related gastrointestinal mucosal lesions. But severe gastrointestinal complications such as gastric perforation are very rare. Here, we report a 40-year-old man who was admitted due to acute pancreatitis and pseudocyst formation. During hospitalization, panendoscopic examination found multiple scattered stress ulcers over the gastric antr...

Abstract The present study investigated the toxic action of acrylamide (ACR) and abrogative effect aqueous propolis extract on ACR-induced toxicity in male albino rats. Forty adult rats were randomly divided into four groups administered treatment doses orally by gavage. Control, treated with a physiological solution (5.0 ml/rat). ACR-treated group, ACR 25 mg/kg. + propolis, mg/kg 100 propolis....

BACKGROUND To study the cause and outcome of ischemic liver necrosis and suggest treatment of these patients. METHODS Retrospective study of 13 patients with ischemic liver necrosis treated at our departments from 1990 until 1997. RESULTS Ischemic liver necrosis was caused by general hypoxia (n = 1) or acute arterial occlusion (n = 12) of the celiac and superior mesenteric artery (SMA, n = ...

In a 45-year-old woman with epigastric discomfort for 1 year, upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) showed a hypoechoic solid mass originating from the muscularis propria of the posterior wall of the gastric fundus (●" Fig.1). EUS revealed that this 0.8×0.6cm mass was probably a gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) because of its morphological characteristics; t...

BACKGROUND Sloughing esophagitis, also known as esophagitis dissecans superficialis, is a very rare and underdiagnosed entity with unknown incidence rate. It can be associated with bullous dermatoses and medications such as central nervous system depressants and those causing esophageal injury. CASE REPORT A 55-years-old woman was recovering from renal failure due to rhabdomyolysis when she d...