introduction: helicobacter pylori infection has various clinical features. one of the most common presentations of this infection is upper abdominal pain. complications such as gastritis, gastric ulcer, gastric carcinoma and malt lymphoma mandate early diagnosis of h.p infection by a low cost and non invasive manner. the aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic role of h.p stool antigen...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the incidence of unexpected histologic findings in routine tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy specimens. METHODS A retrospective medical record review was performed at a tertiary care children's hospital. The pathology records of 2062 children who underwent tonsil or adenoid surgery were analyzed and the final histologic diagnosis was recorded. RESULTS Four unexpected his...

BACKGROUND There are controversies about the importance of biopsies of normal colon mucosa in the investigation of patients with chronic diarrhea. STUDY Colonic and terminal ileum biopsies of 167 patients were reviewed. In 5 patients, used as controls, colonoscopy was done due to family history of colon cancer. RESULTS The 5 patients without symptoms had no histologic abnormalities. The his...

Of 354 thoracotomies, 114 cases involved intraoperative cytopathologic evaluation. The study included 86 men and 28 women, and 184 specimens were examined. Smears were taken from the lung lesion or lymph node and the chest wall or bronchial stump by imprint or needle aspiration. Intraoperative evaluations were compared with histologic findings. In 85 cases not diagnosed as malignant preoperativ...