INTRODUCTION Tracheobronchopathia osteochondroplastica (TO) is a rare disorder involving the lumen of the trachea-bronchial tree and characterized by multiple sub-mucosal osseous and cartilaginous nodules in the trachea and bronchus, sparing the posterior wall. We here report two cases of patients with tracheobronchopathia osteochondroplastica and review the relevant literature briefly. CASE ...

background: aub is a common cause of women’s referring to gynecologists. although hysteroscopy is known as the gold standard technique for diagnosing the cause of aub, sonohysterography is less invasive, and it is performed by general gynecologists. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of sonohysterography compared to the results of the endometrial biopsy, guided...

introduction domestic and industrial swallowing of caustic substances can cause acute and chronic injuries. in the acute phase of care, focus is on the immediate control of tissue damage and perforation, and in the chronic phase, the focus is on the treatment of pharyngeal narrowing and impaired swallowing. conclusions treatment of esophageal burn lesions is by immediate and delayed removing of...

individuals with particular genetic backgrounds develop immune responses to wheat proteins and become ‘gluten-sensitised’. mucosal pathology arises through activated mucosal t lymphocytes, resulting in a graded, adverse e reaction between particular genes and wheat proteins. given these varied influences, the marsh classification broadly itemises those stages through which a normal mucosa (mars...

Inversion of uterus is a rare clinical condition, if not associated with puerperium or third stage of labour. Non-puerperal uterine inversion usually results secondary to tumour implanted at fundus of the uterus. An unusual case of non-puerperal uterine inversion caused by a large submucosal fundal fibroid is reported where a 39-year-old woman presented with heavy bleeding per vaginum and profu...

For patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer, cystoscopy and transurethral resection/vaporization of the bladder tumor plays an integral role in the treatment of a given patient's bladder cancer. Although considered the current gold standard for tumor detection, traditional or white light cystoscopy has been shown to have its limitations visualizing both small papillary tumors and/or ca...

Background and Objective: Diagnosis of Hirschsprung’s disease (HD) as the most common cause of neonatal intestinal obstruction is based on the presence of aganglionosis from seromuscular or full thickness biopsy. Due to the complication of full thickness or seromuscular rectal biopsy, mucosal-sub mucosal biopsy is more intended. However, interpretation of these biopsies stained with hematoxylin...

Clear identification of recently activated mucosal B cells in human blood would greatly facilitate study of mucosal vaccines, immune response to infection and the ongoing mucosal IgA response. We examined blood lymphocytes from normal, healthy individuals to identify IgA-secreting pre-plasma cells' (PPC) functional and phenotypic relevance to mucosal antibody production, in the absence of infec...