the aims of this study were to detect helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) by culture, polymerase chain reaction (pcr) and histopathological methods, to determine the prevalence of active h. pylori infection in elazig province, east of turkey and to evaluate the relationship between h. pylori infection and sex. antrum and corpus samples of 184 turkish patients (85 male and 99 female, age range 17 to...

dear editor-in-chief   lesional histopathological features in pityriasis rosea (pr) are non-specific (1).  our aim here is to investigate whether a histopathological take-off sign (tos) is associated with pr.

Background and Objective: Smoking can be associated with the decreasing gingival blood flow and epithelial changes. The aim of this study was to evaluate the histopathological changes of gingival epithelium and connective tissue in smokers. Methods: The study was case-control. Sixty male patients (28 smokers and 32 nonsmokers) suffering chronic periodontitis were participated...

Introduction: colobomatous cyst is one of the rare orbital cystic lesions that have wide range of differential diagnosis. It is a congenital lesion that can be easily misdiagnosed as malignant tumor, leading to exposing the patient to unnecessarily overtreatment. case report: this is a rare case of congenital colobomatous cyst in an infant girl. the cyst was associated with a microphthalmic glo...

Histopathological tissue analysis by microscopy is a process that is subjective, prone to interand intra-observer variation. This, along with the problems associated with verbalising visual elements of the diagnostic process, make learning the skill quite difficult. Training is long and largely relies on an “apprentice” model, where trainees learn the skill by witnessing an expert at work. Here...