THE recognition of pregnancy must have always exerted the acumen of physicians, not only on medical grounds, but for a host of social, legal, and political motives. These motives were certainly of paramount importance in such a highly organized society as Pharaonic Egypt, where wedding contracts with previously married women testify to that interest' (Jonckheere, I954). Moreover, in feudal or m...

PURPOSE EBV has been detected in 2-16% of gastric carcinomas. However, there is little information available about the gene expression profile of EBV-positive gastric carcinomas. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN EBV infection was examined using EBV-encoded small RNAs (EBERs) in situ hybridization, and 63 (5.6%) of 1127 consecutive gastric carcinomas were found to be EBV-positive. The expressions of 27 tum...

BACKGROUND Primary anaplastic large cell lymphoma, ALK positive in small intestine is clinically rare and the clinical, radiological and pathological information are generally not available. Here, we report a case of 32-year-old male with ALK positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma at the junction of jejunum and ileum, and highlight the clinicopathological features and the differential diag...

Squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN) comprises a large group of cancers in the oral cavity and nasopharyngeal area that typically arise in older males in association with alcohol/tobacco usage. Within the oral cavity, the mobile tongue is the most common site for tumour development. The incidence of tongue squamous cell carcinoma (TSCC) is increasing in younger people, which has...

AIMS Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD) is an important and serious complication in transplant patients. Recent studies have suggested that quantitative assessment of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection in transplant patients might help to identify those at risk of developing PTLD. Therefore, tonsils from paediatric liver transplant recipients were studied for evidence of EBV inf...

Dawali (varicose vein) is first described in Ebers Papyrus over 3500 years ago. Dawali is a disease in which veins of legs and feet become dilated, tortuous, and greenish in colour due to excess accumulation of blood which is derived from saudavi madda & balgham ghaleez. The aetiology of varicose veins is still incompletely under stood, despite the fact that it is a very common disease affectin...

96 Subcutaneous apomorphine in the treatment of Parkinson's disease J P Frankel, A J Lees, P A Kempster, G M Stern 102 Nasogastric and intravenous infusions of ( + )-4-propyl-9-hydroxynaphthoxazine (PHNO) in Parkinson's disease R J Coleman,NP Quinn,M Traub, C D Marsden 106 Syringomyelia and arachnoiditis L R Caplan, A B Norohna, L L Amico 114 Simultaneous VEP and PERG investigations in early Pa...

quires close follow-up, including endoscopic monitoring of the transplanted organ via the temporary stoma and/or anus with biopsies taken and reviewed. We present a case of post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) diagnosed less than 1 month after transplantation. PTLD is a common life-threatening complication after intestinal transplantation, occurring in 13.5% of pediatric cases, a...

we have analyzed paraffin sections from 55 patients with histologically confirmed hodgkin’s disease (hd) for the presence of epstein-barr virus (ebv) markers using in situ hybridization to detect the ebv-encoded rnas (ebers) and immunohistochemistry to identify latent membrane protein-1 (lmp1) expression. tissue specimens from 55 cases of hodgkin’s disease included 22-mixed cellularity (mc), 27...

Abstract Long before medicine was demystified by the Renaissance, Enlightenment and modern thinkers with whom we are most familiar, skin its diseases were pondered on Ancient Egyptians. Through their writings remains, scholars able to assemble a picture of what dermatological conditions ailed Egyptians how they contemporaneously perceived. The Ebers Papyrus (c. 1550 Bc), largest record Egyptian...