Received 5 December 2014; accepted 11 December 2015 A 30-year-old man reported a 3-month history of hyporexia, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, non-bloody diarrhea, and weight loss of 15 kg. One month prior to his referral he was diagnosed with HIV infection. On physical examination he had: cachexia; several 5-10 mm well-demarcated violaceous macules and papules on his face, back, trunk, and extremit...

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Primary (AL) amyloidosis of the gastrointestinal tract is relatively rare, and symptomatic amyloidosis of the stomach is even more seldom. We present the case of a patient who was referred to upper endoscopy because of weight loss, nausea, and vomiting. Large areas of intramucosal hemorrhages were seen, and biopsies resulted in profuse bleeding stopped with endoscopic clips. The biopsies showed...

Rapunzel syndrome is a condition where trichobezoar formed in the stomach and proximal intestine due to hair ingestion. A 6-year-old girl presented emergency department with abdominal pain, vomiting palpable epigastric mass. Laparotomy was performed for gastric foreign body; that filled stomach, duodenum small removed. Postoperative course uncomplicated; patient discharged further out-patient f...

The aim of the research was to study topography liver and image on computed tomography white New Zealand rabbit. We used ten rabbit cadavers. obtained sagittal frozen cuts. At level plane 10 mm left, left medial lobe cranial lateral lobe. Caudally were spleen, kidney parts small large intestines. 20 touched caudally stomach fundus body, papillary process dorsal fundus. right, right cranially si...