AIM: to determine the diagnostic efficiency of magnetic resonance enterocolonography using inflammation indices (CDMI, MEGS) in assessing activity inflammatory process colon and small intestine Crohn's disease. PATIENTS AND METHODS: study included 42 patients with disease (age ranged from 19 47 years). All underwent (MRE) intravenous contrast diffusion-weighted images. According results MRE, we...

Sonographic scanning techniques of the gastrointestinal tract are presented. Normal anatomy and ultrasound appearance of the stomach, small intestine, and large intestine are discussed, followed by the ultrasound appearance of gastrointestinal inflammation, neoplastic disease, and obstruction.

Celiac disease (CD) is a malabsorptive disorder of the small intestine. The disease is a unique model for studies of HLA-associated diseases since (a) the disease shows a stringent HLA association; (b) the disease-inducing agent (wheat gluten and related antigens from other cereals) is known; (c) activated, gluten-specific CD4 + T cells in the lamina propria of the small intestine most likely p...

We present the case of a rare hamartomatous condition of the small intestine clinically mimicking inflammatory bowel disease. Disorganised fascicles of smooth muscle derived from both muscularis mucosae and propria, bundles of non-myelinated nerve fibres with groups of abnormal ganglion cells, and haemangiomatous vessels were present within the submucosa of a long segment of small intestine cau...

Six years experience of blunt abdominal trauma leading to small intestine Perforation in Logh­rnan-e-Hakim Medical center. Between Sept. 1982 to Sept. 1988, 24 cases of abdominal blunt trauma leading to perforation of small intestine were managed at Loghman-e-Hakim Medical center. All the cases were treated surgically either by debridment and repair or resection and anas­tomosis, with no mortal...

In the stomach and large intestine we meet only too frequently with the same type of malignant disease, whereas in the small intestine carcinoma is very rare. The explanation may be that the stomach and large gut are constantly dealing with solid matter which moves on slowly and the small gut with fluids quickly passing on. The surface epithelium of the stomach at one end, and the rectum (the s...

â  the adverse effects of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (nsaids) on the upper gastrointestinal (gi) tract and small intestine are well established. the effect of such therapy on the large intestine, so called nsaid-induced colopathy, is less well described. nsaid-induced colopathy usually involves the right colon due to a higher concentration of the drug at this site, but the rectum may...

Twenty-three female and 19 male patients were studied. Their ages ranged from 15 to 72 years. The total length of history of psoriasis ranged from 3 weeks to 50 years, and the duration of the most recent episode from 1 week to 20 years. All patients had been admitted to hospital for treatment and were studied consecutively, apart from a few who declined the investigation. None of the patients h...