(1) The authors report 4 new cases of heterotopic pancreas in children with prepyloric, jejunal, Meckel's diverticulum and mesenteric localization.
(2) During a 25-year period, four patients with esophageal diverticulum associated with carcinoma of the esophagus underwent surgery.
(3) In contrast, for epiphrenic diverticula, functional esophageal explorations provide greater precision of the type of dyskinesia and allow better adaptation of surgery to type of dyskinesia associated with diverticulum.
(4) A search of the medical records from 1940 to 1975 at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco and Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley has revealed only 3 cases of carcinoma within a urethral diverticulum.
(5) The authors present a case of scaly carcinoma, located in a vesical diverticulum.
(6) Emergency laparotomy was performed after a recurrence of massive bleeding and revealed, 60 cm oral of the ileocaecal (Bauhin's) valve, a Meckel's diverticulum with ulcerated heterotopic gastric mucosa, 5 x 3 x 2 cm in size, and this was resected.
(7) The literature data concerning the incidence of Meckel's diverticulum in the adult and the frequency of its complications are examined and problems associated with the preoperative diagnosis of this form are discussed.
(8) The following ERP identified the tumour as a diverticulum of the duodenum.
(9) Recent manometric and radiological studies suggest that the upper oesophageal sphincter has poor compliance in patients with a pharyngeal (Zenker's) diverticulum.
(10) We recommend the use of the stapling device in excision of Zenker's diverticulum.
(11) In the last 8 years 15 cases of Meckel's diverticulum were observed, 6 of them with complications: three times inflammation (with two perforations), each once invagination, incarceration and occult bleeding from carcinoids.
(12) The tenth case of this curious entity in a diverticulum of urethra in women is presented here.
(13) High levels were found in the primitive heart, hepatic diverticulum and septum transversum; lower levels were found in the early somites and other primitive mesenchymal derivatives and midgut endoderm.
(14) A case of primary cancer of the vesical diverticulum in a patient with spinal cord injury is reported.
(15) The pressure below the neck of the diverticulum at the time when the bolus reached the diverticular entrance, was of the same magnitude or exceeded the resting pressure of the UES in 4 patients and was approximately 0 kPa in 2 patients.
(16) Most of these functional disorders were of benign nature, including simple or complicated reflux disease of the oesophagus, achalasia of the cardia, para-oesophageal and mixed hiatus hernia, and diverticulum.
(17) Pneumoperitoneum may be indicated in the investigation of a bleeding Meckel's diverticulum, in the exclusion or confirmation of remnants of the omphalomesenteric duct, in chronically moist lesions of the umbilicus resistant to symptomatic treatment, in suspected cases of non-communicating urachal cysts which cannot be diagnosed by cystogram, and in the differential diagnosis of abdominal tumours related to the umbilical region.
(18) A case of intraluminal diverticulum of the duodenum presenting with GI bleeding and associated focal diverticulitis has been added to the 39 other cases of intraluminal duodenal diverticulum previously described in the literature.
(19) The diagnosis of intestinal obstruction caused by Meckel's diverticulum is difficult.
(20) A case of adenocarcinoma of Meckel's diverticulum is reported.
Polyp
Definition:
(n.) One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.
(n.) One of the Anthozoa.
(n.) Same as Anthozoa. See Anthozoa, Madreporaria, Hydroid.
Example Sentences:
(1) The frequency of gastric malignancies in the families of the women with gastric polyps was higher than in the controls and in men, 6.2, 3.1 and 2.4 percent, respectively (p less than 0.05, and p less than 0.025).
(2) In 20 patients (18.2%), visualization revealed uterine abnormalities, mainly newly added endometrial lesions, i.e., hyperplasia, polyps, endometritis, and synechiae.
(3) In the latter groups, specimens were taken from both polyp tissue and adjacent nasal mucosa.
(4) Age, histological type, number or location of the index diminutive polyps, were not associated with proximal lesions.
(5) In this paper, 5 patients with benign tumor (3 tubular adenoma, 1 leiomyoma and 1 fibroma) and 35 pseudotumor (26 cholesterol polyps and 9 inflammatory polyps) of the gallbladder are presented.
(6) The indication to lipomas removal is based on clinical remarks and differential diagnosis with adenomatous polyps.
(7) Genetic relations of skin tags, colon polyps, and colon cancer are a matter of ongoing research.
(8) Of 14 reported cases of Peutz-Jeghers syndrome associated with intestinal carcinoma, in only two was the tumor shown to originate in the polyp.
(9) Examples include the specific pattern of hypodontia seen before the development of iris dysplasia in Rieger syndrome, and the presence of supernumerary teeth and facial osteomas preceding malignant transformation of intestinal polyps in Gardner syndrome.
(10) All patients with distal polyps detected during flexible sigmoidoscopy underwent colonoscopy.
(11) Findings included squamous epithelium with acute and chronic inflammation, foreign body granuloma and aural polyps.
(12) Nine of these 10 patients had juvenile polyposis defined by the presence of at least three juvenile polyps; and eight of the nine had a family history of juvenile polyps.
(13) Eradication of the pedunculated and narrow-based polyps in stomach was almost totally successful by injection into the base.
(14) Included in the study were 193 small polyps, 0.5 cm in diameter, diagnosed on rectoromanoscopy and removed by mechanical way from 182 patients at the Proctologic Unit of the Department of Gastroenterology.
(15) Despite the fact that this approach has several caveats, consistent results obtained in short-term studies would more readily justify the undertaking of a large-scale, long-term controlled study using colon cancer or adenomatous polyp recurrence as an endpoint.
(16) After the polyp was removed, the cells decreased appreciably in number.
(17) Neoplasia was present in 22% of DPs located less than 60 cm from the anus, 73% of proximally located small polyps, and 32% of all DPs.
(18) Non-neoplastic polyps included 32 inflammatory polyps, 32 metaplastic polyps, 27 juvenile polyps and 17 Peutz-Jeghers type polyps.
(19) Polyps were detected ultrasonographically, but one third of them were overlooked by either cholecystography or CT. Nomenclature, pathological classification and management of the lesions are discussed.
(20) Every second polyp in the same region proved to be adenoma.