CONTEXT Gastric duplication cysts are often associated with microscopic evidence of ectopic pancreatic tissue on their submucosal surface and, less commonly, on the subserosal surface. CASE REPORT We present an unusual case of a gastric duplication cyst with finger-like projections and a large heterotopic pancreas on the serosal surface of the cyst in a 30-year-old female. CONCLUSION We poi...

This study presents a case of pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis affecting the terminal ileum in a 25-year old male patient, discovered accidentally during laparotomy for acute abdomen which was proved to be due to perforated duodenal ulcer, Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis is characterized by the presence of subserosal or submucosal gas filled cysts in the wall of gastrointestinal tract, thi...

BACKGROUND Leiomyomata is the most frequent gynecological neoplasm. One of the major complications of myomectomy is intrauterine adhesion (synechiae). OBJECTIVE To evaluate and compare the rate and severity of synechiae formation after myomectomy by laparotomy and laparoscopy. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this non-randomized interventional trial, hysteroscopy was performed in all married fertil...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the association between uterine fibroids and adverse obstetric outcomes. METHODS This was a retrospective cross-sectional study of 112,403 deliveries from 14 provinces and 39 different hospitals in 2011 in mainland China. We compared pregnancy outcomes in women with and without uterine fibroids who underwent detailed second trimester obstetric ultrasonography during 18 t...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinicopathological spectrum of eosinophilic gastroenteritis and identify possible difficulties in establishing the diagnosis. All patients with a diagnosis of eosinophilic gastroenteritis, defined by the presence of gastrointestinal symptoms and eosinophilic infiltration of the gut (38), or a radiological diagnosis with peripheral eosinophilia (two), w...

Intraepithelial neoplasias are preinvasive neoplastic lesions found throughout in the digestive system, and when such lesions are discovered in the gallbladder, they are referred to as intracystic papillary neoplasm (ICPN). In the gallbladder, mucinous adenocarcinoma is a rare histologic phenotype, and adenocarcinomas involving Rokitansky-Aschoff (RA) sinuses are uncommon, which were indeed fou...

West Indian Med J 2005; 54: (1) 85 INTRODUCTION Gallstones presenting as cholecystoduodenal, cholecystocholedochal and cholecysto-gastric fistulae causing gastric outlet obstruction (Bouveret’s syndrome) or the classical gallstone ileus are well documented. Gallstones penetrating the gastric wall but not the gastric mucosa, and lying in an isolated subserosal, intramural portion of the stomach ...