Background: In order to analyze the cecum-colon ecosystem and the treatment of the cecal impaction and hindgut acidosis, cecal cannulation is needed. It is essential to select a simple, fast and inexpensive cecal cannulation method. Because of different complications in general anesthesia, the standing surgery is known as a better option for the horse emergency surgery. Objective: The objective...

Four cecum and right ventral colon-fistulated horses were assigned in a 4 x 4 Latin square design and fed a high-fiber (HF) or a high-starch (HS) diet with or without 10 g of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (SC; CBS 493.94) containing 4.5 x 10(9) cfu/g. The HF and HS diets consisted of pelleted feeds and long wheat straw (18.0 and 3.5 g of DM.kg(-1) of BW.d(-1), respectively) given in 2 equal meals to...

INTRODUCTION A mobile cecum is a frequently encountered congenital anomaly. It is important to recognize this atypical position of the cecum as it may interfere with an accurate diagnosis of acute appendicitis. PRESENTATION OF CASE A 48-year-old man presented with abdominal pain, anorexia, and fever. He had mild lower abdominal discomfort, and rebound tenderness in the suprapubic region, but ...

Hox genes are required for the development of the intestinal cecum, a major organ of plant-eating species. We have analyzed the transcriptional regulation of Hoxd genes in cecal buds and show that they are controlled by a series of enhancers located in a gene desert flanking the HoxD cluster. The start site of two opposite long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), Hotdog and Twin of Hotdog, selectively co...

The subhepatic position of the cecum and appendix is a result of embryological reasons. Subhepatic appendicitis can cause diagnostic dilemmas. During the dissection of an adult male cadaver aged approximately 70 years, the subhepatic position of the cecum and appendix was noted. The appendix made a "U"-shaped bend and its tip was located in the paracolic position. The cecum had appendices epipl...

J Jpn Soc Nutr Food Sci 52:157-162 (1999) The influence of protein, methionine, a crystalline amino acid mixture, oil or cellulose in the diet and the method used for diet sterilization on the fresh weight or total nitrogen (N) content of the cecum was examined in germ-free (GF) and conventional (CV) mice. These results showed that the fresh weight of the cecum in GF mice was much higher than t...

Ann Saudi Med 2006;26(6):477-479 Epidermoid cyst of the cecum is extremely rare. There have been only five reports of epidermoid cysts of the cecum in the English literature. The lesion has been reported in other internal organs in the epididymis, testis, spleen, accessory spleen and liver.1-9 I report the first case of epidermoid cyst of the cecum in the oldest patient reported thus far and di...

Liposarcoma of the digestive tract is very rare; only a few cases of liposar­ coma of the stomach have been reported so far. In this article a 29-year-old woman is presented with a history of long-stand­ ing mid-abdominal pain and various treatments for anemia and peptic ulcer dis­ ease which did not improve her symptoms; until a barium-enema revealed a fill­ ing defect in the cecum. Under lapa...

Clinical history: A 25-year-old male patient complained about three-day epigastric abdominal pain. His body temperature was normal and he did not have any other symptoms such as vomiting or diarrhea. In clinical observation, he had got a tightness feeling when we pressed at Mac-Burney point. No sign of peritoneal reaction was recorded. His blood test was done and the white blood cell count was ...

Carcinosarcoma of the colon is rare. Seventeen cases have been reported in the English literature. Most cases occurred in the left side of the colon. Indeed, there is only one reported case of cecal carcinosarcoma. Carcinosarcoma has a tendency to distantly metastasize and shows dismal prognosis. We report a case of carcinosarcoma in the cecum and review the literature describing colonic carcin...