Anastomotic ulceration following the surgical treatment of duodenal and gastric ulcers is more dangerous and troublesome and often more difficult to diagnose than the original lesion. Even in experienced hands it is more difficult to treat successfully both medically and surgically than either duodenal or gastric ulcer. Difficulties in diagnosis, the incidence of complications, and the problems...

Gastric mucormycosis is a rare disease with a reported fatal outcome of 98%. Manifestations range from colonization of peptic ulcers to infiltrative disease with vascular invasion and dissemination. In our renal transplant patient a deep gastric ulceration infected with Rhizopus oryzae (class Zygomycetes), which is known to be an agent of mucormycosis, was diagnosed in the early posttransplant ...

Anastomotic ulceration following the surgical treatment of duodenal and gastric ulcers is more dangerous and troublesome and often more difficult to diagnose than the original lesion. Even in experienced hands it is more difficult to treat successfully both medically and surgically than either duodenal or gastric ulcer. Difficulties in diagnosis, the incidence of complications, and the problems...

Anastomotic ulceration following the surgical treatment of duodenal and gastric ulcers is more dangerous and troublesome and often more difficult to diagnose than the original lesion. Even in experienced hands it is more difficult to treat successfully both medically and surgically than either duodenal or gastric ulcer. Difficulties in diagnosis, the incidence of complications, and the problems...

Angiolipoma is a morphological variation of the lipoma and is a benign tumour that consists of mature adipose tissue and proliferating blood vessels. It occurs very rarely in the digestive tract, especially the stomach. We report a gastric angiolipoma in a 58-year-old woman admitted for anaemia and melena. Endoscopy showed a large polypoid mass with superficial ulceration in the anterior wall o...

Helicobacter pylori infection leads to gastroduodenal inflammation, peptic ulceration and gastric carcinoma. Proteomic analysis of the human gastric mucosa from the patients with erosive gastritis, peptic ulcer or gastric cancer, which were either infected or not with H. pylori, was used to determine the differentially expressed proteins by H. pylori in the human gastric mucosa in order to inve...

A Meckel's diverticulum is a remnant of the vitelline duct, which leads to the formation of a true diverticulum containing all layers of the small intestine. The diverticulum can contain ectopic gastric, duodenal or pancreatic tissue and is the most common congenital anomaly of the gastrointestinal tract with estimates of prevalence ranging from 0.3% to 3%. The condition is usually clinically s...

Mallory-Weiss tears (MWTs) rarely require surgical intervention. A 60-year-old female presented with massive hematemesis secondary to MWT and gastric ulceration. After failure of endoscopic management, an operative approach was embarked on, with a direct surgical hemostasis of the Mallory-Weiss tear and exclusion of the gastric ulcer. This exclusion strategy may be applicable for other patients...

This paper reviews the history of the transition from the belief that gastrointestinal ulcers are caused primarily by psychological factors to the current state of belief that they are caused primarily by infection and argues that neither is fully accurate. We argue that psychological factors play a significant role as predisposing to vulnerability, modulating of precipitation, and sustaining o...