The authors present a case of colonic monoblastic sarcoma, previously treated for other digestive abnormalities (malabsorbtion, Hirschprung's disease). Important similitudes with immunoproliferative small intestinal disease (IPSID) lymphoma were demonstrated for this patient (male, 2-year-old). His main admission complaints were failure to thrive, recurrent episodes of enterocolitis and malabso...

Patients having had an ileal resection or a significant segment of ileum excluded and used for construction of a continent urinary diversion as well as those in whom radiation treatment of gynaecological , bladder or -rectal cancer have injurred distal small bowel all these patients will develop a characteristic malabsorbtion syndrome, a "terminal ileopathy" Patients often suffer a troublesome ...

Retractile mesenteritis is a rare benign inflammatory disease of the mesentery. Computed tomographic findings usually suggest the diagnosis, which is confirmed by surgical biopsies. Conservative treatment is empirical, based on corticosteroids, colchicine, immunosuppressive agents and progesterone. Surgical resection is sometimes attempted for definitive therapy, although the surgical approach ...

it is very important for a child with cancer to have a normal process of growth. then management of child's nutritional status and his/her security protection is necessary. the objectives of this article were to assess nutritional status, to find reasons for malnutrition, to introduce a suitable nutritional regimen, to evaluate psychological status, to educate the child and his/her family ...

We describe the clinical history, diagnostic evaluation, and management of an infant who had congenital Glucose Galactose Malabsorption (GGM), a rare disorder thought to be inherited as an autosomol recessive trait. This infant experienced persistant diarrhea and hypernatemic dehydration during the first months of life and then renal stone on three months follow-up. Diagnosis is based on oral g...

Dear Editor, Scurvy, a disease of dietary ascorbic acid defi ciency, is uncommon today.1 It is occasionally described in individuals with restrictive nutrition due to psychiatric neuromuscular or developmental disorders, traditional habits, malabsorbtion syndromes or dietary defi ciency.2-4 Because of its rarity, varied clinical presentation and low index of suspicion on the part of the treatin...

Vitamin B12 is one of the essential vitamins affecting various systems of the body. Reports of psychiatric disorders due to its deficiency mostly focus on middle aged and elderly patients. Here we report a case of vitamin B 12 deficiency in a 16-year old, male adolescent who presented with mixed mood disorder symptoms with psychotic features. Chief complaints were "irritability, regressive beha...