S-, a male child, four clays' old, was brought from a village to the Colvin Hospital, Allahabad, at about 6 o'clock on the evening of the 31st March, 1884. The hospital dhai came to me and reported that a baby had arrived in whom the natural passage of defecation was absent. I immediately went over to the hospital and saw it. The face was pinched ; the baby could cry only faintly, the breathing...

Psammoma bodies have been documented in carcinoid tumours of the duodenum, but not in carcinoids at other sites in the gastrointestinal tract. 2 We describe a psammomatous carcinoid tumour in the rectum. A 50 year old woman presented with a two month history of abdominal pain and bleeding from the rectum. On examination, she had pallor, in addition to fullness and tenderness in the left iliac f...

Sir,?With reference to the letter of Babu A. C. De, L.m.s., in the Indian Medical Gazette of August last, and that of Babu S. C. Sen, l.m.s., in the current issue, I feel myself interested to inform you of my experience, which may help to take further steps in the matter. In the month of November, 1916, I found three cases here?one Bengali Babu (named Jadunath Sirkar, Hoolarhat P. O., Bakerganj...

PURPOSE Radiation therapy (RT) is delivered as adjuvant and salvage therapy after radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer. Interest in dose escalation in this setting may necessitate more advanced RT techniques, such as intensity modulation. This study was designed to compare intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) versus 3-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3DCRT) planning. METH...

BACKGROUND This study is a report on the long-term analysis of acute and late toxicities for patients with localized prostate cancer treated with hypofractionated helical tomotherapy. METHODS From January 2008 through August 2013, 70 patients with localized prostate cancer were treated definitively with hypofractionated helical tomotherapy. The helical tomotherapy was designed to deliver 75 G...

PURPOSE To evaluate the expression of neurotrophic (NGF, NPY and VIP) and pro-inflammatory (TNF-α) mediators in the rectum and sigmoid fragments compromised by endometriosis. METHODS Twenty-four patients were selected to undergo surgical treatment of endometriosis of the rectum and sigmoid colon with a segmental resection technique, followed by end-to-end anastomosis with a circular stapler f...

PURPOSE To investigate the difference in rectal complications rate following prostate low dose rate (LDR) brachytherapy based on prostate-rectum distance and prostate longitudinal length among early prostate cancer patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS From March 2008 to February 2013, 245 prostate cancer patients with a Gleason score ≤7 were treated with 125-I LDR brachytherapy. Among them, 178 pa...

The excision of the aganglionic segment of the recto-sigmoid colon proposed by Swenson is the logical outcome of the new conception of the aetiology of Hirschsprung's disease and I do not think it necessary to discuss it here any further. The operation which I shall describe constitutes but a technical variance of Swenson's operation and is not a new method; it has also some other applications ...

Background: Intestinal adenosquamous carcinoma (ASC) is a rare malignancy. This study evaluated overall survival of this malignancy in the small intestine, colon, and rectum. Methods: Using Surveillance, Epidemiology, End Results (SEER) 18 registry, we analyzed cases from 2000 through 2015 by Cox proportional hazards using univariate multivariate analysis, adjusting for age, primary tumor site,...