CHAIRMAN. Have you any idea of the success rate of diagnosis of carcinoma of the pancreas. Are there any false positives? HERLINGER. I haven't attempted to prove any diagnostic abilities but I was quite happy to go back after I had been proved wrong, to see whether I could have been right if I had known more, and making use of this retrospective diagnosis I would say that the correlation betwee...

Gastro-esophageal reflux (GER) is common in infants and children and has a varied clinical presentation: from infants with innocent regurgitation to infants and children with severe esophageal and extra-esophageal complications that define pathological gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD). Although the pathophysiology is similar to that of adults, symptoms of GERD in infants and children are...

In adults, most intussusceptions develop from a lesion, usually a benign or malignant neoplasm, and can occur at any site in the gastrointestinal tract. Intussusception in the proximal gastrointestinal tract is uncommon, and gastro-gastric intussusception is extremely rare. We present a case of gastro-gastric intussusception secondary to a primary gastric lymphoma. An 82-year-old female patient...

Sandifer syndrome (SS), a movement disorder which is characterised by spasmodic torsional dystonia with back arching and rigid opisthotonic posturing, negatively impacting predominantly the neck, back, upper extremities. Symptomatic gastro-esophageal reflux disease, esophagitis, or presence of hiatal hernia are all associated syndrome. The cause being uncertain, lifestyle adjustments modificati...

Cytomegalic inclusion disease is a common complication in recipients of organ transplants. In renal transplant recipients, the disease involves the lungs more often than it does the gastrointestinal tract. We report on a recipient of a cadaveric kidney who had cytomegalic inclusion disease that involved both the upper and lower gastro-intestinal tract, and massive gastro-intestinal bleeding tha...

Using five non-invasive tests, abnormalities of cardiovascular reflex function were found in 20 of 50 patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux. Abnormalities of pupil cycle time, an index of non-vagal parasympathetic function, were found in only a few patients, implying that the cardiovascular abnormalities observed were not part of a generalised parasympathetic defect. The findings are consiste...

Gastro-gastric fistula is a communication between the gastric remnant and gastric pouch. It is a rare complication of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. It is caused by anastomotic leak, marginal ulcers, distal obstruction or erosion from foreign body. In this case report, we are presenting a successful laparoscopic repair of gastro-gastric fistula in a patient who presented with weight gain after initi...

Gastro Oesophageal Reflux Disease (GORD) is a chronic and relapsing disease, defined as "Failure of antireflux barrier, allowing reflux of gastric contents into the esophagus".1 According to the Genval Workshop, this term should be used to include all individuals who are exposed to the risk of physical complications from Gastro-esophageal reflux or who experience clinically significant impairme...

A case of gastro-duodenal Crohn's disease was preSented, in whom there was also intestinal and colonic lnvolvement. He subsequently underwent a partial gastrectomy with Roux-en-Y anastomosis, dissecting the lrst 18ins of jejunum, which was macroscopically involved with Crohn's disease and post-operatively fared very well. As this was an unusual case and gastrou?denal Crohn's disease is relative...