We report the rare case of HES involving oral cavity associated with esophagus, and gastrointestinal tract, which we succeeded in diagnosing precisely through a biopsy specimen obtained from the lip. A 64-year-old man had dysphagia, swelling of the oral mucosa and the posterior cervical muscles, accompanied by an abdominal pain and diarrhea. Peripheral blood cell count showed marked eosinophili...

Automatic segmentation of abdominal anatomy on computed tomography (CT) images can support diagnosis, treatment planning and treatment delivery workflows. Segmentation methods using statistical models and multi-atlas label fusion (MALF) require inter-subject image registrations which are challenging for abdominal images, but alternative methods without registration have not yet achieved higher ...

A rare case of a 70 years old man with dysphagia secondary to compression of the oesophagus by dilated aberrant right subclavian artery (ARSA, Arteria lusoria) is presented. Contrast enhanced computed tomography of the mediastinum in our patient revealed this anomalous vessel arising from the aortic arch distal to the left subclavian artery which passed behind the esophagus as it traveled to th...

we report the case of a 40-year-old male patient admitted to the surgery ward in our hospital for recent abdominal pain, abdominal distention and fever. he had a history of similar abdominal pain and distention; for which he had undergone a laparotomy. laboratory data revealed leukocytosis with eosinophilia (42%). upper gastrointestinal endoscopy showed diffuse severe erythematous pangastritis....

Esophageal perforation continues to be a difficult diagnostic and management problem. Recommendations regarding treatment remain controversial. 17 patients with perforation of the esophagus were retrospectively reviewed at the Thoracic Surgery Unit of Imam Khomeini Hospital between 1981 and 1992. The majority of the injuries involved the thoracic esophagus (10 or 59%), followed by the cerv...

OBJECTIVES There is no generally accepted treatment strategy for cervical esophageal carcinoma. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the operative outcomes of reconstruction after resection of cervical esophageal and hypopharynx-esophagus junction carcinoma with larynx preservation. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the data of 79 patients with carcinoma of the hypopharynx-esophagus ju...

esophageal perforation continues to be a difficult diagnostic and management problem. recommendations regarding treatment remain controversial. 17 patients with perforation of the esophagus were retrospectively reviewed at the thoracic surgery unit of imam khomeini hospital between 1981 and 1992. the majority of the injuries involved the thoracic esophagus (10 or 59%), followed by the cervical ...

We investigated whether intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) during curative surgery for esophageal carcinoma is useful or not. The cases of 117 patients diagnosed with thoracoabdominal esophageal carcinoma who underwent curative surgery between 1986 and 2007 were reviewed: 72 patients received IORT (IORT group) and 45 did not (non-IORT group). Upper abdominal lymphadenectomy was performed in 115...

INTRODUCTION Gastrointestinal tract small cell carcinoma is an infrequent and aggressive neoplasm that represents 0.1-1% of gastrointestinal malignancies. Very few cases of small cell esophageal carcinoma arising in Barrett's esophagus have been reported in the literature. An extremely rare case of primary small cell carcinoma of the distal third of the esophagus arising from dysplastic Barrett...

Because the esophagus is normally devoid of eosinophils, detection of eosinophils in the esophagus often indicates pathological situations (1). Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a chronic, immunemediated esophageal disease clinically characterized by esophageal dysfunction related to symptoms and histologically by eosinophilpredominant inflammation. The current incidence rate is almost one in 2...