A 45-year-old man with a known history of hemophilia and AIDS presented with right upper quadrant pain for 3 weeks, associated with weight loss and fever. He had declined antiviral therapy. Physical examination revealed tenderness in the right upper quadrant and splenomegaly. Laboratory tests included the following: white blood cell count, 2000/cmm (reference range, 4000-10,000/cmm), hemoglobin...

A 41-year-old man presented with abdominal fullness in late August 2012. Abdominal CT showed ileus caused by stenosis of the ileum and an enlargement of the ileocecal lymph nodes. Colonoscopy showed a steep elevated protruding tumor in the cecum, with multiple ulcerative lesions on top. A pathological analysis of the lesions confirmed chronic inflammatory infiltration and epithelioid granuloma....

Abstract Background Gut microbes has become one of the research hotspots in animal ecology, playing an important role monitoring dietary adaptation and health status host. However, there are few studies on gut microbiota stomach, smallintestine (ileum), large intestine (cecum, colon, rectum) wild boar. Results Alpha diversity Beta showed were significant differences abundance distribution gastr...

BACKGROUND Acantholytic squamous cell carcinoma (ASCC) is an uncommon histopathologic variant of SCC, characterized by marked acantholysis, wherein the tumor cells demonstrate defective cohesion to one another in the cancer nest leading to a pseudoglandular or pseudovascular appearance. The most common site of ASCC is the sun-exposed areas of the skin. Sporadic cases of ASCC have also been repo...

Two experiments were conducted to evaluate potato protein (PP, experiment 1) and refined PP (RPP, experiment 2) obtained from Gogu valley tubers as an antimicrobial agent in broiler diets. In both the experiments, 1-d-old male Ross 308 chicks were allotted to 5 treatments and performance, nutrient retention, and microbial populations in excreta and cecum were studied. Dietary treatments were as...

Over the years, Salmonella Heidelberg (SH) has gained prominence in North America poultry production and in the poultry production of other countries. Salmonella Heidelberg has been isolated and reported from poultry and poultry products in Brazil since 1962, whereas Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) has only emerged as a serious problem in poultry and public health since 1993. These strains of Salmo...

Intestinal malrotation occurs when there is arrest or disruption of the normal rotation of the embryonic gut during the fourth to twelfth week of embryonic development. Normally, the midgut undergoes a 270° counterclockwise rotation around the superior mesenteric artery, leading to retroperitoneal fixation of the duodenum at the ligament of Treitz and fixation of the cecum by peritoneal bands t...

Sodium chloride transport across isolated cecum mucosa was investigated in normal rats and rats with adaptive cecum growth induced by dietary polyethylene glycol (PEG). The normal cecum absorbed Cl in excess of Na with a small short-circuit current (ISC). Dietary adaptation led to large equivalent increments of Na and Cl net absorption without adequate ISC change. Inhibitor studies (mucosal ami...

BACKGROUND Colonoscopy is becoming increasingly necessary for many patients in screening, diagnosing, and treating colorectal problems. Because the majority of rural doctors are family physicians, providing colonoscopy for the enlarging group of patients with valid indications in rural areas is difficult, unless rural family physicians perform the procedure. Subspecialists in academic settings ...

AIM This study was designed to elucidate the histoenzymic distribution of enzymes, i.e., phosphatases, oxidoreductases, dehydrogenases, and diaphorases in cecal lymphoid tissue during its development in the prenatal period. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was conducted on cecum of 15 buffalo fetuses ranging from 16 cm curved crown-rump length (CVRL) (100 days) to 100 cm CVRL (full term). The ...