BACKGROUND Acute anal fissure as a common disease in society has several etiologies and manifestations such as severe anal pain and bleeding. Nitroglycerin ointment 0.2% is the most common topical treatment used. The most common side effect of nitroglycerin is headache, which is annoying for patients and often leads to discontinuation of the drug. OBJECTIVE Comparison of egg yolk as a natural...

eosinophilic gastroenteritis (ege) was a rare  gastrointestinal disease that was seen in all ages usually associated with dyspepsia, diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain, blood loss in stools and malabsorption. we reported a six-month-old boy with rectorrhagia, family history of allergy, elevated ige and eosinophil in blood with normal endoscopy. because of eosinophilic infiltration in lamina pro...

malakoplakia is a rare disease with undefined etiology that has been almost exclusively reported in urology and pathology journals. we are presenting a case of colonic malakoplakia in an i8-year old young man who was referred to us with a four-year history of intermittent rectorrhagia. the pathological examination of the endoscopically resected specimen revealed pathognomonic features of malako...

Meckel's diverticulum is a common congenital disorder which may result in Gl bleeding. For definite diagnosis before surgery, radiographic procedures such as small intestine barium studies are not greatly successful; on the other hand Tc-99m-Pertechnetate imaging is a physiologic and noninvasive method with high sensitivity and specificity. In this report, three patients with rectorrhagia...

Malakoplakia is a rare disease with undefined etiology that has been almost exclusively reported in urology and pathology journals. We are presenting a case of colonic malakoplakia in an I8-year old young man who was referred to us with a four-year history of intermittent rectorrhagia. The pathological examination of the endoscopically resected specimen revealed pathognomonic features of ma...

Lung cancer is the most frequent cause of cancer death in the world. Although about 50% of lung cancers have distant metastases at the time of diagnosis, gastrointestinal metastasis has rarely been described. The most common metastatic site is the small bowel, whereas, colonic metastases are very rare. This report presents a clinical case of a 68-year-old male with a previous diagnosis of non-m...

Materials and methods We present a case of rectorrhagia in an 83-years old patient. On rectal exploration a little hard lesion was found. A colonoscopy with biopsy was performed to search for synchronous lesions. A virtual colonoscopy and CT total body were performed to stage the patient and integrate the endoscopy and they both were negative. The endoscopy confirmed the lesion (adenocarcinoma ...

eiomyoma is a tumor strain that derives from the smooth uscle fibers and develops in the regions where these fibers re present. In the digestive tract, the anorectal location is ncommon and is usually diagnosed late due to intralumial growth in over 50% of the cases. Given the exceptional ocation, we present the case of a 49-year-old woman who ought medical attention for a tumor of 7-month prog...