Percutaneous endoscopic colostomy (PEC) was first described in 1986, by Jeffrey Ponski [1], who had invented percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy a few years before that [2]. Performed by 2 operators, PEC consists of placing a tube in the colon during colonoscopy in order to provide antegrade colonic enemas (ACE) in severe constipation or fecal incontinence [3,4]. The PEC tube can also be used a...

Simultaneous presence of an epithelial and lymphoid tumor of the digestive tract is quite rarely met in literature. In this paper, we describe a case which presented such an association. Diagnosis was established by histological study, followed by immunohistochemistry. It is a synchronous colon tumor, associating a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma to a colon adenocarcinoma. The 57-year-old male patient h...

∗ Corresponding author at: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Keimyung University, School of Medicine, 194 Dongsan-Dong, Jung-Gu, Daegu 700-712, South Korea. E-mail address: [email protected] (H.W. Kim). (IHC) staining showed that the right breast cancer was negative for estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER-2). The patient received ...

Small bowel fistula can be classified as internal, external and mixed. In internal gastro-intestinal fistulas a communication exists between segments of intestine or with any other hollow viscus, whereas in external gastro-intestinal fistulas intestine communicates with skin of abdominal wall. The mixed variety involves both internal and external communications often through an abscess cavity. ...