Clinical associations between Crohn's disease in humans and Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) have been suggested but not confirmed. Cattle could be sources for MAP, but little information on MAP prevalence with beef has been reported. Samples of ileocecal lymph nodes and swabs of hides and carcasses from 343 animals at cull cattle slaughtering facilities and 243 animals at fed ...

Metastatic malignancies of the hand are rare and metastases to the skeletal muscle from the gastrointestinal system are even much rare. Here we present a case of metastatic ileocecal adenocarcinoma to the thenar muscle, which is the first report of thenar muscle metastasis from ileocecal adenocarcinoma with P53 mutation. To date, only two other cases of thenar muscle metastasis have been docume...

INTRODUCTION Overt fibrostenotic disease is a relative contraindication for anti-TNF therapy in Crohn's disease. We hypothesized that subclinical fibrosis may also contribute to an incomplete response to anti-TNF therapy before the onset of symptomatic stenosis. METHODS In a previous trial, patients with ileocecal Crohn's disease were randomized to either immediate ileocecal resection or medi...

background the aim of the present study was to compare two analgesic techniques for transrectal ultrasound (trus)-guided biopsy: diclofenac patch versus periprostatic nerve block with 1% lidocaine. objectives to study the efficacy of and compare diclofenac patch and periprostatic nerve block as analgesia in trus-guided prostate needle biopsy. patients and methods in total, 60 patients were pros...

PURPOSE The aim of this study is to evaluate the technique of ileocecal segment interpositional graft after total gastrectomy for gastric cancer with assessment of its advantages and disadvantages. PATIENTS AND METHODS This is a prospective study carried out at the National Cancer Institute, Cairo University. Twenty four patients with gastric carcinoma were identified from December 1998 to Fe...

In this paper, we propose a new compact quasi-fractal shaped microstrip antenna that consists of a hexagonal patch as the main radiator and a complementary stacked patch as the parasitic element. The overall surface of the proposed quasi-fractal patch is about 55% lower than the conventional hexagonal patch. Using of stacked technique, the gain reduction of compression technique is almost compe...