Just as problematic are prisoners who swallow mobile phones, as these are too large to progress beyond the stomach, so they ...

Intestinal villi (singular: villus)are tiny, finger-like projections that line the interior (lumen) of the small intestine. The primary function of villi is to absorb nutrients from food and transfer ...

Animal Health Pathological Laboratory in Kolkata created history in Eastern India by adopting 'endoscopy-guided foreign body ...

A man in Florida recently visited a Tiffany & Co jewellery store posing as a buyer for a professional US athlete. While viewing the items, together ...

According to national cancer registration statistics released by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Central Cancer ...

Key points A 40-year-old man was referred to our internal medicine clinic for assessment of a 3-month history of unintentional weight loss and daily night sweats with subjective fevers. He had been ...

British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines for diagnosis and management of autoimmune hepatitis ...

Cases of diverticulitis likely to cause narrow stool typically need additional treatment. Some people with diverticulitis develop complications such as an abscess, intestinal obstruction, fistula, or ...

Design Patients from the Netherlands and Norway with a previous diagnosis of atrophic gastritis (AG), intestinal metaplasia (IM ... patients were included and underwent at least one surveillance ...

Bert Scholl was just a few weeks from his 37th birthday when he got the diagnosis few people his age expect – colorectal ...

Surgical Intervention for Gastrointestinal Foreign Bodies in Adult Patients: A Case Series. Surgical Science, 16, 182-193.