OBJECTIVES: To determine the maternal and fetal outcomes associated with uterine fibroids in pregnancy. METHODOLOGY: This study was conducted Gynaecology Department of Mardan Medical Complex from January 2018 to December 2019. All pregnant women any age or parity gestational sonographic evidence were included. Demographic details, age, symptoms related fibrosis, size, number location fibroid, m...

we report the case of a 40-year-old male patient admitted to the surgery ward in our hospital for recent abdominal pain, abdominal distention and fever. he had a history of similar abdominal pain and distention; for which he had undergone a laparotomy. laboratory data revealed leukocytosis with eosinophilia (42%). upper gastrointestinal endoscopy showed diffuse severe erythematous pangastritis....

INTRODUCTION Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a malignant of mesodermal neoplasm and arises from multipotential mesothelial or subserosal cells of the pleura, pericardium and peritoneum. CASE A seventy five year-old male patient was admitted with chest and lower limb pain. He was a heavy smoker and exposed to environmental asbestos in his childhood. PET-CT scans showed multiple patholo...

A 64-year-old Japanese woman with ulcerative colitis visited our hospital for abdominal distention. Laboratory examinations and abdominal ultrasonography demonstrated no abnormal findings. Colonoscopy showed sessile polypoid lesions with no overlying mucosal abnormalities in the ascending colon (Picture 1). These lesions were soft and dented when pressed by biopsy forceps. Plain computed tomogr...

We report a case of 13-year-old boy suggested as eosinophilic gastroenteritis (EG). He was admitted about fifteen months ago with abdominal pain and diarrhea. Laboratory test revealed remarkable elevation of eosinophilic count. Computed tomography and ultrasonography revealed thickness of the intestine and ascites. Upper and lower endoscopy findings were almost normal, and biopsy specimens did ...

AIM To study the serosal reaction in gastrectomy specimens with benign chronic peptic ulcers. METHODS Gastrectomy specimens were fixed in neutral buffered formalin and paraffin wax, and examined using immunohistochemical and ultrastructural techniques. RESULTS Nine of the 22 (41%) cases examined showed reactive hyperplasia of the serosal cells. The cells were predominantly spindle-shaped an...