tomy with a forward-viewing echoendoscope for severe benign bilioenteric stricture in a patient with Child’s resection Anastomotic strictures occurring after choledochojejunostomy have generally been treated by a percutaneous approach. A recent study reported that good outcomes were obtained after balloon enteroscope-assisted endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography [1]. A number of proce...

Naturally occurring collatera l pathways con necting the external carotid artery branches and the intracran ial cerebral circulation are well recognized and have been demonstrated anatomically, angiographically, and physiologically by vari­ ous flow detection devices. Under normal c ircumstances, all internal carotid artery blood flow is direc ted intracranially, and flow through the co ll ater...

gastrointestinal endoscopy are perfora− tion and hemorrhage. Our case report de− scribes a rare complication that occurred during diagnostic endoscopy. A 53−year−old man with diabetes was ad− mitted to our department because of dis− turbed carbohydrate balance. Because he was suffering from epigastric pain and re− current coffee−ground vomiting (he was on continuous antiplatelet agent ther− apy...

The liver is the most active organ engaged in S-adenosyl methionine metabolism . S-Adenosylmethionine synthetase isozymes (EC 2.5.1 .6) were studied in normal, fetal, and pathological livers including hepatoma to correlate their activities with developmental stages and pathophysiologi cal states of the liver. Three isozymes of S-adenosylme thionine synthetase, namely low, intermediate, and high...

The thymec tomy of some strains of mice dur ing the critical neonatal period (NTx),X day 2-4 after birth was reported from this laboratory to induce various organ-specific au to immune diseases such as oophoritis (1-3), gastritis with megaloblastic anemia (4), thyroiditis (5), orchitis (6), and coagulat ing gland adenitis of the prostate (6). This experimental model is quite unique in that the ...

I read with great interest the recent publication by Tanrıöver et al. on splenic artery embolization, in which they reached in conclusion that splenic artery embolization might be an option for hemolytic anemia as a bridging therapy to surgery or as an alternative therapy, especially in critically ill patients with disorders that contraindicate surgery [1]. Partial splenic embolization (PSE) is...

The control mechanism of mitosis in the regenerating rat liver was studied in relation to the cell functions. Partial hepatec· tomy induces a series of changes prior to the initiation of mitosis, i. e. decrease in serum glucose and albumin levels, loss of glycogen from liver cells, and increased lipid mobilization to liver cells. Massive supplies of glucose and fructose suppressed significantly...

capillary hemangioma that occurs mostly on the skin and the mucous membranes of the nasal and oral cavities [1]. Al− though pyogenic granuloma in the diges− tive tract excluding the oral cavity is a rar− ity, it can cause significant gastrointesti− nal bleeding, and curative resection is re− quired for treatment in most cases [2]. We describe a case of pyogenic granulo− ma of the common bile du...

age ment of lo cal ized pros tate can cer for al most 100 years. How ever, the side ef fects of in con ti nence and im po tence have pre cluded its wide spread ac cep tance. There fore, an an a tom i cal ap proach was used to mod ify the sur gi cal pro ce dure in an ef fort to de crease com pli ca tions. Using this pro ce dure, ex pe ri enced sur geons at 3 high-volume ac a demic med i cal cen ...

Author's disclosures of potential conflicts of interest are found at the end of this article. L ung cancer, the second most frequently diagnosed malignancy for men and women in the United States, will account for an estimated 221,200 newly diagnosed cases and 158,040 deaths in 2015 (Siegel, Miller, & Jemal, 2015). The preferred treatment for early-stage non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), often...