we described a case of lymphoid follicular hyperplasia that arose from the ileum of a 52-year-old woman. her colonoscopy revealed a large mass in the cecum associated with multiple polypoid lesions in the ileum. histologic examination demonstrated severe lymphocytic infiltration and lymphoid follicles with regular germinal centers, without evidence of malignancy. a right hemicolectomy was perfo...

background: a known species lutztrema (lutziella) microacetabularae rhode, 1966 is being described for the first time from pakistan. this species is characterized by having body long and slender, oral sucker subterminal, acetabulum smaller than oral sucker lying in anterior third of the body, pharynx small, esophagus promi-nent which become gradually wider and bifurcates in to two rudimentary c...

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 ...

objective(s): the aim of the present study is to determine the effect of chloramphenicol (cap) on rat liver and small intestine. effect of phenobarbital (pb) on cap toxicity was also investigated.   materials and methods:   rats were received cap at doses of 0, 200, 400 and 600 mg/kg. another group was pretreated with 80 mg/kg pb 30 min prior to administration of various doses of cap. the exper...

background in quran, the great, surah baghareh, verse 255, it is stated: “ who is he aware of everything and the limited knowledge of humankind originates in his unending and unlimited knowledge”. one of these sciences is the science of pharmaceutical plants. recognizing these plants plays an important role in the improvement of human society health. herbal therapy is one of the supplement meth...

background & aim:  non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (nsaids) are commonly used in clinical medicine. the adverse effects they produce in the gastrointestinal tract however, often limit their utility. oxidative stress has been shown to occur in the small intestine in response to the oral administration of indomethacin. in view of this, the effect of thyme essential oil, an agent with an...

food intake of rats increases during pregnancy. this requires changes in the structure of the small intestine to absorb additional food. the aim of the present study was to investigate the morphological changes in the layers of small intestine in rats during pregnancy. duodenum, jejunum and ileum of 18 pregnant sprague-dawley rats (day 7, 14 and 21 of pregnancy) were collected. villous height a...

â  â  background eosinophilic gastroenteritis (eg) is a rare inflammatory disorder of the gastrointestinal (gi) tract. there have been several case series of patients with eg from the western world and east asia. however, there has not been a report of patients with eg from the middle east region. the aim of this study is to describe clinical characteristics and treatment response in a series o...

to study clinical and histopathological changes occur within the first 12 hours of strangulating obstruction of the small intestine in equine, twenty five adult donkeys were used in an experimental study. strangulation obstruction of the small intestine was performed for 3, 6, 9 and 12 hours, respectively. clinical examination was done before surgery and at 3 hours intervals postoperatively. af...