OBJECTIVE To report the prevalence and distribution of gastric ulceration within a group of racehorses and to describe the endoscopic appearance of gastric antrum and pyloric ulceration. DESIGN Retrospective clinical study. PROCEDURE Medical records from gastroscopic examinations of 345 racehorses (331 Thoroughbreds and 14 Standardbreds) were reviewed. Prevalence, distribution and severity ...

Food allergy (FA) is a disease with increasing prevalence and a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations. These include the eosinophilic disorders, which can involve any segment of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT), including the stomach. In this context, three patients with a confirmed diagnosis of food allergy, who were initially diagnosed with pyloric hypertrophy, are presented. All cases sho...

Introduction. Extra-pancreatic complications of acute and chronic pancreatitis that do not relate to vital organs are rare. The most common include subcutaneous paniculitis, arthritis, bone marrow fat necrosis, vasculitis. These associated conditions have been termed pancreatic disease syndrome (PDS), which can occur only with but also in other diseases. PDS is believed be caused by circulating...

Multiple neoplastic lesions at separate gastrointestinal sites is rare with incidence of 0.7-11%. Majority primary neoplasms (MPN's) are double while triple/quadruple malignancies extremely a ratio 2.7:1. Patients periampullary having lesion in stomach or gastroesophageal junction rare. These patients requiring Whipple's pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) resection the adjoining for R0 Resection rare...