During the period of 1984-1995, nine young patients were admitted to Shiraz University Hospitals with a chief complaint of abdominal mass, weight loss and chronic diarrhea. Clinically, these cases were diagnosed as intestinal tuberculosis or lymphoma. Laparotomy revealed a huge mass involving the upper small intestine. Histologic sections showed diffuse infiltration of the intestinal wall w...

BACKGROUND/AIMS To investigate the various etiologies, yields, and effects of capsule endoscopy (CE) on management and complications, along with follow up of patients with obscure gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. METHODS The study group of patients included those having obscure, overt, or occult GI bleeding. The findings were categorized as (A) obvious/definitive, (B) equivocal, or (C) negativ...

background plasmablastic lymphoma (pbl) is a relatively new entity, classified by who as a rare variant of diffuse large b cell lymphoma. the present case report introduces a 17 year old girl with chronic diarrhea, abdominal pain, intra-abdominal venous thromboses, ascites, mesenteric lymphadenopathies and small intestinal polyposis, the pathologic and immunohistochemistric examinations of the ...

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) plays an etiological role in various diseases. EBV-associated lymphoproliferative disorder (LPD) is usually observed in individuals with congenital or acquired immune deficiencies but was also recently reported in non-immunocompromised individuals. Two cases of immunocompetent patients with EBV-associated T-cell LPD of the small bowel and colon who were initially misdia...

RECENTLY attention has been drawn to the possible association of small bowel ulceration and oral administration of thiazide combined with enteric coated potassium chloride (Brit. med. J., 1964). Baker and his colleagues (1964) were recorded to have encountered twelve cases of small bowel ulceration, eleven of which were under treatment with the above combination of drugs. The following case was...

Six patients (4 male, 2 female) developed nonspecific small bowel ulceration between the ages of 4 months and 76 y. Five had gastrointestinal haemorrhage, usually chronic and resulting in iron deficiency anaemia. Four had features of subacute intestinal obstruction; there were no perforations. A small bowel enema was the most useful single investigation for delineating the lesions, and surgical...