OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prognostic value of the depth of lamina propria invasion in patients with T1 bladder cancer. SUBJECTS AND METHODS 200 patients were treated between the years 2002 and 2009. Tumours with depth of invasion above the muscularis mucosae level were categorised as pT1a and those with depth of invasion up to or beyond the muscularis mucosae as pT1b. RESULTS Categorisation...

The mast-cell distribution in the digestive tract of the rat, dog, cat, and guinea-pig was studied. In the rat mast-cells were present in the tongue, oesophagus, and forestomach, but practically absent from the glandular stomach, duodenum, ileum, and rectum. In the other species, mast-cells were numerous throughout the whole of the digestive tract, presenting a large individual variation. In th...

Elastofibromatous change, also referred to as elastofibromatous polyp or elastofibroma, has been extremely rarely described in the gastrointestinal tract. This lesion is characterized histopathologically by an excessive accumulation of elastic fibers occasionally with a fibrous component involving the submucosa and/or muscularis mucosae of the gastrointestinal tract. Herein, we report four addi...

We have been investigating possible effects of sex hormones on the carcinogenesis of stomach cancer in Wistar rats that were given N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine in drinking water (50 micrograms/ml) for 4 months. The incidences of stomach cancer in intact male, intact female, castrated male, and castrated female rats at Month 4 of the experiment were 5, 0, 0, and 0% respectively; and thos...

The effects of food restriction (FR) on the morphoquantitative aspects of the wall and myenteric neurons of the proximal colon in adult rats were analysed. FR was imposed by duplication of the experimental brood size in relation to the control brood during lactation. The FR group received a 50% reduction of food from weaning until 90 days of age. Samples of the colon underwent histological proc...

The main difference between benign and maligant colorectal polyps is the risk of lymphatic and haemotogeneous spread through the submucosal vessels. Malignancy is defined as invasion beyond the muscularis mucosae. In contrast, the benign polyps are confined to the mucosa without crossing the muscolaris mucosae and they have been usually classified as intramucosal neoplasia [1,2]. Interestingly,...