he incidence of the diverticulum of the small bowel varies from 0.2-1.3% in autopsy studies to 2.3% when assessed on enteroclysis. it occurs mostly in patients in the 6th decade of their life. of all the small bowel diverticuli, jejunal diverticulum is the most common type. this rare entity is usually asymptomatic. however, they may cause chronic non-specific symptoms for a long period of time ...

we report the case of a 54-year-old iranian man who presented with melena from three months prior to admission. esophagogastroduodenoscopy and colonoscopy were normal. double balloon enteroscopy showed a pedunculated tumor located in the jejunum. he underwent laparotomy and resection of a 9.5 cm tumor from the distal jejunum. histopathologic evaluation confirmed the diagnosis of an inflammatory...

the prevalence of various intestinal helminthiasis have been determined by the examination of 8109 inhabitants of 20 villages located in the mountainous and coastal regions of the bandar abbas and minab areas in southern iran. a portion of people infected with each parasite were treated with the appropriate drug i and the worms expelled were collected, identified and counted. the results indica...

background: acute obstruction of the colon continues to be a lethal disease with little improvement in the mortality rate over the past 50 years. so, this study was undertaken to define the causes of colon obstruction and their probable changes after years. â  methods: from 1979 to 2004, all records of patients with definite diagnosis of intestinal obstruction at all hospitals affiliated to shi...

ashkan kavyani1, ahmad zare shahne1, javad pourreza1, sayed mohammad ali jalali haji-abadi1, mohsen nikkhah2, nasir landy 3*  1- department of animal science, shahrekord branch, islamic azad university, shahrekord, iran 2 -department of animal science, faculty of agriculture, university of guilan, iran 3-young researchers and elite club, khorasgan branch, islamic azad university, isfahan, iran ...

prevalence of various intestinal helminthiasis has been established among the population of 42 villages in gonbad kavus in the north-east of the caspian littoral during a longitudinal health survey undertaken in this area. stool examination by formaline ether technique been performed among 1240 randomly selected population. surprisingly and contrary to most other areas in iran; very low infecti...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the status and epidemiology of intestinal parasites in iran. the information was driven from an extensive health survey which was done by the ministry of health and medical education, deputy of research affairs in 1990-92. sampling fraction was 1 per 1000 of individuals aged between 2 and 69, the sampling method was cluster sampling and each cluster ...

intraluminal small bowel hematoma has been rarely reported in children, as a rare cause of small bowel obstruction. we present a case of an intraluminal ileal hematoma presenting as small bowel obstruction in a child. computed tomography (ct) indicated a large intraluminal hyperdense lesion in the distal ileum as the cause of small bowel obstruction. abdominal ultrasonography (us) showed an ech...

background: for a long time, intestinal parasite infections are among the major problems of public health in iran. our aim was epidemiological studies on the frequency of intestinal parasites in patients re­ferred to three hospitals in tehran during 2007-2008. methods : during 2007-2008, by simple random selection, 1000 stool samples were collected from mi­lad, hazrat-e-rasoul and shahid fahmid...

Intestinal obstruction may be duo to various mechanical or functional reasons. Worms, especially Ascaris worms are one of the mechanical reasons of intestinal obstruction. Obstruction due to Taenia saginata is a rare phenomenon. Here we report a case of intestinal obstruction due to Taenia saginata infection in a 30 year-old male patient undergoing laparatomy with the diagnosis of intestinal ob...