The families of 207 index patients treated for spinal dysraphism at The Hospital for Sick Children were studied to discover whether the condition was aetiologically related to the classical neural tube malformation--spina bifida cystica and anencephaly. The index patients had all had a tethered conus medullaris and one or more of a variety of anomalies of the spinal cord, vertebrae, or skin ove...

The aims of this study were to evaluate the clinicopathologic features of Helicobacter heilmannii-associated gastritis and to compare H. heilmannii-associated gastritis with H. pylori-associated gastritis. We reviewed 5,985 consecutive gastric biopsy specimens. All cases of chronic gastritis with Helicobacter infection were evaluated with the Updated Sydney System, and the grades of all gastrit...

With advances in the treatment of patients with chronic renal failure, their life expectancy has increased. In turn, the prevalence of osteitis fibrosa cystica, a manifestation of secondary hyperparathyroidism, and beta2 microglobulin amyloidosis, a result of long-term haemodialysis, has risen. While both conditions share similar radiological features, their management is very different. We pre...

background: helicobacter pylori, which is associated with many upper gastrointestinal diseases, is found in half of the population of the world. several special stains and immunohistochemistry stain for h. pylori are available. the need for and usefulness of immunohistochemical (ihc) technique has been debated for years. toluidine blue is a simple stain for microbiological studies and is easily...

Nicolai Tulp, the physician whose features are immortalized in Rembrandt's painting 'The School of Anatomy', first suggested the name 'spina bifida' (Tulpius, 1652), though the condition was known to Hippocrates, and the mediaeval Arab physicians are said (Denuce, 1906) to have specifically recognized the absence of the spinous processes in the affected area. Ruysch (1691) distinguished between...

Russell body gastritis is a rare form of chronic gastritis. It is characterized by the invasion of lamina propria by plasma cells that included eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion. In the literature, most of the cases are associated with Helicobacter pylori. Russell body gastritis and Helicobacter pylori infection are generally seen together incidentally. We report here two cases of Russell body...