The most common gastrointestinal involvement in neurofibromatosis is due to tumoral lesions which may present with gastrointestinal bleeding or obstruction. We report a case of concurrent ulcerative colitis and neurofibromatosis.A 39 year-old woman, known case of neurofibromatosis, was admitted to our department with complaint of chronic bloody diarrhea. After thorough clinical examination and ...

P eutz–Jegher syndrome (PJS) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder characterized by typical pigmented perioral macules, pigmented spots in the buccal mucosa and digits along with hamartomatous polyps in the gastrointestinal tract. The characteristic clinical course includes recurrent episodes of polyp-induced bowel obstruction, abdominal pain and gastrointestinal bleeding. In addition to polypo...

Despite advances in gastrointestinal endoscopic technology, the management of malignant hilar biliary obstruction continues to be a challenge for advanced endoscopists. There has been ongoing debate regarding optimal modality both diagnostic and therapeutic interventions obstruction. Various approaches including endoscopy, interventional radiology guided surgery are available. The should includ...

Epithelioid sarcoma (ES) of the small bowel is a rare gastrointestinal tumour. We report a case of gastrointestinal bleeding secondary to small bowel ES in a 55-year-old gentleman. After gastroscopy and colonoscopy failed to identify the source of bleeding, we proceeded with computed tomography angiogram of the mesentery, which revealed intraluminal blood clot in the distal jejunum with feature...

We reviewed the histories of four children (2 boys and 2 girls, aged 6 mo to 10 yr) with surgically proven bezoars, treated from 1991 to 1998. Two had gastric bezoars and two had intestinal bezoars. All four patients presented with gastrointestinal symptoms and none had undergone previous surgery. Three had a history of abnormal ingestion, including one who ate a pickled fruit from the Boragina...

RATIONALE Metastatic involvement of the gastrointestinal tract is an uncommon scenario encountered in the clinical practice. Our case represents a gastric outlet obstruction (GOO) as a consequence of distant Transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) metastasis without any lymph node involvement in association with inflammatory stranding leading to extrinsic duodenal obstruction. PATIENT CONCERNS We r...

INTRODUCTION Juvenile polyposis syndrome(JPS) is a rare autosomal dominant inherited condition. Hamartomatous polyps can affect the entire gastrointestinal tract but usually predominate in the colon. In this case report we present an unusual case of JPS that presented with massive gastric polyposis requiring a total gastrectomy. CASE PRESENTATION A 51-year-old man presented with symptoms of g...

bezoars are concretions of foreign materials that impair gastrointestinal motility or cause intestinal obstruction in the stomach, small intestine or bowel of humans or animals. there are many types of them such as phyto, lacto and trichobezoars. although bezoars are not rare, multiple giant bezoars which totally fill the stomach lumen and have extension to the small intestine (rapunzel syndrom...

INTRODUCTION Gastric outlet obstruction usually presents with non-bilious vomiting, colicky epigastric pain, loss of appetite and occasionally, upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Causes can be classified as benign or malignant, or as extra- or intraluminal. Gastrojejunostomy is a well-recognised surgical procedure performed to bypass gastric outlet obstruction. A bezoar occurs most commonly in pa...

INTRODUCTION Angiodysplasia is a common vascular abnormality of the gastrointestinal tract, found in the elderly and most frequently revealed by gastrointestinal bleeding. We report an original case of ileal angiodysplasia in an 83-year-old woman presenting as a bowel obstruction. CASE PRESENTATION An 83-year-old woman with a medical history of chronic untreated anemia, presented with cardina...