A 50-year old female presented herself with abdominal bloating and pain in the Emergengy Department. The symptoms persisted and a clinical evaluation was made. A lesion suspect for a giant duodenal diverticulum was seen on the CT-scan, which was confirmed by enteroclysis. Surgical resection was performed. The diagnosis was histological confirmed after surgery. Small bowel diverticula are relati...

common site for the presentation of extranodal non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Depending on the series, follicular lymphoma of the gastrointestinal tract accounts for 3.6 % of gastrointestinal lymphoma [1]. Above all, follicular lymphoma shows a predilection for the duodenum, where 55.6 %– 62.5 % of cases are located [1,2]. We present the case of a 47-year-old woman with epigastralgia. An elevated lesi...

Bacterial or ingested food-derived short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) are present in the duodenal lumen. Acetate, the most abundant SCFA in the foregut lumen, is absorbed immediately after ingestion, although the mechanism by which this absorption occurs is not fully understood. We investigated the distribution and function of candidate SCFA transporters in rat duodenum. The Na(+)-coupled monocarb...

An 84-year-old Japanese man presented with abdominal fullness and anorexia in September 2006. Computed tomography demonstrated extension of the stomach and the duodenum with a thickened wall. It showed marked dilatation of the main pancreatic duct (MPD) (A; arrowhead) and fistulization into the stomach (A; arrow) and the duodenum (B; arrow). Endoscopic examination demonstrated the skip ulcerati...

BACKGROUND Its a dilemma to attempt a palliative procedure to debulk the tumour and/or prevent future obstructive complications in a locally advanced intra abdominal malignancy. CASE PRESENTATION A 38 year old Vietnamese man presented with a carcinoma of the colon which had invaded the gallbladder and duodenum with a sealed perforation of the second part of the duodenum. Following surgical ex...

The pacesetter potential of the gastric antrum and proximal duodenum has been recorded in man by electrodes placed under the serosal coat of the gut. The typical 3 cycle/min of the stomach was found to be conducted across the pylorus into the first part of the duodenum at a rate (2 cm/sec) about four times as fast as its conduction in the more proximal antrum (0.5 cm/sec). A 3 cycle/min paceset...

In this study whether extracellular Ca++ is essential to produce an increase of tension of isolated rat duodenum by ACh, 5-HT, AVP and KCl-, was examined. KCl- and AVP-evoked contractions were almost totally prevented by Ca++ removal from bath solution. The increase of tension of isolated duodenum caused by ACh or 5-HT was totally prevented after adding nifedipine, a Ca++ channel blocker, into ...

We report the case of a 75-year-old woman with a personal background of hypertension and peptic ulcer with a 5-days history of constipation, vomiting and abdominal pain. Simple radiology and abdominal computed tomography were performed, finding a great dilatation of the stomach until the first portion of the duodenum. The obstruction was due to a gallstone obstruction in the second portion of t...