Squamous cell carcinoma arising from the small intestine is rare and difficult to identify as a primary or metastatic feature. We report a case of small intestinal squamous cell carcinoma manifesting as subacute peritonitis due to perforation. An 80-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with intermittent postprandial abdominal pain. He was diagnosed with acute peritonitis due to gastrointes...

MAYDL’S HERNIA (hernia-in-W) is one of the rare presentations of strangulated inguinal hernias in adults. Its incidence is reported to be between 0.6-1.92 % of all strangulated hernias [1-3]. Two or more loops of bowel lie in the hernia sac but it is the intervening loop, within the abdomen, that is most severely affected, hence the term hernia-in-W. This case report presents one such case of a...

We report the case of a 46-year-old man who presented with recurrent episodes of severe upper abdominal pain over a period of three months. A computerized tomography scan of his abdomen demonstrated a large non-obstructing jejunal mass. He underwent laparotomy and resection of a 13.5 cm tumour from the distal jejunum. Histopathological examination confirmed a large inflammatory fibroid polyp of...

......................................... Received: 03-02-14 Accepted: 05-11-14 Abstract Ectopic varices (EV) in the jejunum are a rare vascular disorder which is associated with portal hypertension (5%). It is even rarer when it occurs without associated portal hypertension. We report a case of a patient without portal hypertension who had had chronic intestinal bleeding from varices located i...

A 29 year old man with a history of childhood polymyositis developed insulin dependent diabetes and was found coincidentally to have chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction due to visceral myopathy. Multiple full thickness biopsy specimens showed severe disease in the duodenum and the proximal jejunum only, with less involvement distally. Total parenteral nutrition has been avoided for more than ...

Three cardiac glycosides were screened for pharmacological effects on isolated rat jejunum. The contraction of rat jejunum with epoxyscillirosidin, a non-cumulative bufadienolide, and cotyledoside and tyledoside D, both cumulative neurotoxic bufadienolides were compared with methacholine. The results indicate that all three bufadienolides cause contraction of jejunal smooth muscle. When combine...

The age-associated alteration in expression levels of carboxylesterases (CESs) can affect both intestinal and hepatic first-pass metabolism after oral administration xenobiotic esters such as prodrugs. In this study, the age-related CES isozymes hydrolase activities were simultaneously investigated liver, jejunum, ileum from 8-, 46-, 90-week-old rats. Rat liver expresses three major CES1 isozym...

Thirty clinically healthy Stara Zagora white turkeys (15 females and 15 males) were used for the study. Eighteen tissue samples (six from middle of each segment small intestine) appropriate age group to prepare permanent histological specimens. The sections stained by Masson - Goldner method. intestine turkey was composed four layers: tunica mucosa, submucosa, muscularis serosa. Tunica mucosa h...