Enteropathy in malignant disease.

Changes in intraepithelial lymphocyte subpopulations in coeliac disease and enteropathy associated T cell lymphoma (malignant histiocytosis of the intestine).

Studies of the morphologic and phenotypic diversity of intraepithelial T cells in human small intestine have shown them to be heterogeneous, yet distinct from most extra intestinal T cells. In this study sequential immunoenzymatic staining was used to define new intraepithelial lymphocyte subpopulations in man. In normal human jejunum approximately 6% of the intraepithelial T cells expressing C...

Gluten intolerance, gluten enteropathy, and coeliac disease.

Malignant lymphomas in coeliac disease: evidence of increased risks for lymphoma types other than enteropathy-type T cell lymphoma.

BACKGROUND Numerous studies have reported on the association between coeliac disease and the otherwise uncommon enteropathy-type T cell lymphoma (ETTL). A systematic risk assessment of more prevalent lymphoma entities, such as B cell and non-intestinal lymphomas, in coeliac disease has not been performed. AIMS In light of the increasing number of patients diagnosed with coeliac disease and th...

Pigmented Bowens disease mimicking malignant Melanoma: A case report

Pigmented Bowens disease is an in situ squamous cell carcinoma, which is seldom reported in white patients. Herein we report a 20-year-old woman with type III skin, who had this lesion on the fourth finger of her right hand, similar to superficial malignant melanoma, clinically. Although dermoscopic evaluation could be helpful, correct diagnosis of non-melanotic origin is done by histological e...

Chemotherapy in Malignant Disease

IN the treatment of cancer all efforts are directed -towards the total elimination of the malignant tissue by means of surgery, radiotherapy or a combination of both. There will be many occasions when this ideal will be impossible of achievement and, whilst surgery may be required for the relief of symptoms at the primary site, it will be of no avail in the treatment of widely scattered metasta...