INTRODUCTION Mouth and genital ulcers with inflamed cartilage (MAGIC) syndrome is a rare overlap syndrome that includes features characteristic of both Behçet's disease (BD) and relapsing polychondritis (RP). CASE DESCRIPTION A 30-year-old female complained of lower abdominal pain and bloody stools during medical treatment for RP. Total colonoscopy revealed oval-shaped deep ulcers on the term...

Caecal-appendicular tuberculosis represents a rare localization of tuberculous lesions. Within digestive tract tuberculosis, the ileo-caecal localization is the most frequent, and in many cases is correlated with pulmonary tuberculosis lesions. The increase incidence of tuberculosis worldwide determined a raise in the intestinal tuberculosis rate. Positive diagnosis is based on histopathologica...

A 64-year-old woman visited our hospital for diarrhea that had persisted for 6 months. She had been treated for diabetes insipidus for 10 years. Her serum CA 19-9 and CEA level, and fecal tests were normal, and the tuberculin skin test was negative. Computed tomography (CT) (Fig. 1) showed hypertrophy of the colon (white arrows) and appendix walls (red arrow) and enlargement of many lymph nodes...

Background: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has improved the diagnosis and management of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is a brief, sensitive test that has been recommended by National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke and Canadian Stroke Network (NINDS-CSN) as a reliable tool to detect mild cognitive impairments. This study aimed to eva...

Spontaneous hemoperitoneum (SH) is a rare entity which can be life-threatening. Gastrointestinal neurofibromas are rare. Occasionally, such lesions may be the initial sign of NF1 in patients without any other clinical manifestations of the disease. The clinical presentations of isolated neurofibromatous lesions of the intestines are variable. In asymptomatic patient no treatment may be required...

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease have significantly increased in recent decades in Korea. Intestinal tuberculosis (ITB) and intestinal Behcet's disease (BD), which should be differentiated from Crohn's disease (CD), are more frequent in Korea than in the West. Thus, the accurate diagnosis of these inflammatory diseases is problematic in Korea and clinicians should fully understand their...

The author offers a resumé of capsule endoscopy as a diagnostic modality in the gastro-intestinal tract. Capsule endoscopy (CE) was first described in 2000 and is possibly one of the most important advances in gastro-intestinal diagnostics, since the introduction of endoscopy as a diagnostic modality. The swallowed pill camera shows images, as it is propagated through the gastro-intestinal trac...

The importance of endoscopy in the diagnosis of small intestinal tumors was evaluated in 15 patients with small intestinal tumors treated in our hospital. Two tumors were benign, and 13 were malignant (carcinoma in 5 patients, malignant lymphoma in 5 and leiomyosarcoma in 3). The presence of lesions could be determined by X-rays before surgery, but definitive diagnoses were difficult. When preo...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the colorectal cancer clinical data with respect to the anatomical location and stage of disease. DESIGN Retrospective observational study. SETTING Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), Nairobi, Kenya. SUBJECTS Two hundred and fifty three tumours were categorised as right colonic (RCC), left colonic (LCC) and rectal (RC) lesions. The distribution of symptoms (rectal blee...

Intestinal cancers are a category of heterogeneous tumors that occur sporadically or through inherited susceptibility, each characterized by genetic alterations affecting a number of molecular pathways. As a result of this complexity, numerous genetically engineered mice (GEM) have been generated to model different genetic, morphologic, or clinical features of intestinal cancer. Mouse models of...