Cystic pneumatosis of the intestine is a rare condition, but perhaps not so rare as the small number of reported cases suggests. Although recognized since 1876, when Bang first noted gas cysts in the intestine of a woman who had died of volvulus, cystic pneumatosis of the intestine has remained a baffling diagnostic problem. The condition may be defined as the presence of gas in cyst-like forma...

Based on various lines of evidence and multi-disciplinary approaches, it has been suggested that nutrition and specific nutritional components, as well as dietary habits, in various parts of the world may play an important role in the causation and development of a number of major types of cancer. Nutrition may relate directly to the occurrence of 30-40% of cancers in men and 5 4 0 % of cancers...

T HE portion of the alimentary canal in which the final processes of normal digestion occur, and in which almost all the digested food is absorbed, is the small intestine. At the lower end of this long tube is the large intestine, serving, it is usually taught, as a reservoir to receive, store, and periodically discharge the accumulation of waste. Throughout the small intestine the contents are...

Objective: To analyze the similarities and differences of the applications of “the lung and large intestine being interior-exteriorly related” between the ancient and modern clinical practices, and to reveal the theory meaning. Method: Based on the ancient and modern medical cases database, 245 ancient medical records and 373 modern medical records were studied with the general statistical desc...

Colorectal cancer is the second most common form of cancer death in Western countries. Diet has been implicated in the aetiology of this disease. Epidemiological evidence suggests that diets high in meat and fat and low in fermentable carbohydrate increase colorectal cancer risk. One mechanism that could explain the association with meat is increased colonic protein metabolism due to increased ...

I. The object was to investigate the importance of urea as a source of ammonia in the large intestine of herbivores. Urea was present in small intestinal contents of slaughtered horses in concentrations similar to those in blood but, in the small intestine of slaughtered sheep, the urea was less than in blood. 2. There was little ammonia in small intestinal contents of slaughtered horses but co...

are pointed out and the transmural nature of the inflammation in Crohn's disease emphasized, also the importance of anal lesions, which occurred in 81 % of the cases. Absence of the typical sarcoid reaction on one histological examination does not rule out Crohn's disease. This combined clinical and pathological study makes it clear that Crohn's disease is a different disease from ulcerative co...

are pointed out and the transmural nature of the inflammation in Crohn's disease emphasized, also the importance of anal lesions, which occurred in 81 % of the cases. Absence of the typical sarcoid reaction on one histological examination does not rule out Crohn's disease. This combined clinical and pathological study makes it clear that Crohn's disease is a different disease from ulcerative co...

Neoplastic lesions of the large intestine are increasing in Japan in conjunction with the changes in the dietary life of the population. Exact diagnosis of the diseases of the large intestine are still being debated. However, recent advances in diagnostic imaging provide improved diagnosis of neoplastic lesions of the large intestine without undue stress on the patient. In this paper, recent di...