HYPOTHESIS After alcohol-induced and hereditary disease, idiopathic chronic pancreatitis is the most common cause of calcifying pancreatitis. This designation is used when no associated cause of chronic pancreatitis is found. We present 6 cases of idiopathic pancreatitis in which the postoperative pathological examination results demonstrated lymphoplasmacytic sclerosing pancreatitis or autoimm...

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BACKGROUND The introduction of sclerotherapy using foam sclerosants has revitalized interest in this method of treating varicose veins. Foam is made from detergent-type sclerosants already established as safe and effective in conventional liquid sclerotherapy. OBJECTIVE European experts in foam sclerotherapy were invited to exchange their opinions and to work on consensus statements and recom...

OBJECTIVES Patients who have a liver transplant for primary sclerosing cholangitis may develop recurrent disease and biliary complications, organ loss necessitating revision liver transplant, or death. We evaluated long-term outcomes in patients who had liver transplant for primary sclerosing cholangitis. MATERIALS AND METHODS In 71 patients who had a liver transplant for end-stage liver dise...

Background: Sclerosing polycystic adenosis (SPA) is a rare, recently described, tumorous condition of the major or minor salivary glands that on gross and microscopic evaluation mimics an invasive carcinoma. The histology quite similar to seen in fibrocystic disease, sclerosing tumors breast. It also resembles more diffuse bilaterally occurring dysgenetic disease (PDD) parotid gland. To best ou...

INTRODUCTION Perineurioma is an infrequent and benign cutaneous neoplasm characterized by proliferation of perineurial cells. It is classified into two main types: intraneural and the extraneural or soft tissue perineurioma, in which the sclerosing variant is included. Sclerosing perineurioma is more frequently found on acral skin. Clinically, they are well-circumscribed,skin colored, nodular t...