■ Acute erosive/hemorrhagic gastritis (stress gastritis) Acute erosive/hemorrhagic gastritis is characterized by an acute gastric injury with an abrupt onset of abdominal pain and bleeding, usually associated with intake of…
■ Peptic duodenal diseases Clinical features Peptic duodenitis and peptic ulcer disease (PUD) represent a continuum of the same disease process, namely acute and chronic inflammation of the duodenal mucosa…
The small intestine represents 75% of the length and 90% of the surface area of the gastrointestinal tract, yet neoplasms of the small intestine are rare, accounting for only 1%…
Gastric carcinomas have a variety of precursors that can be identified histologically. Precursor lesions can be broadly classified into categories of either gastric epithelial dysplasia (GED) for flat (grossly normal)…
■ Fibrovascular polyps of the esophagus Clinical features These lesions may not be truly neoplastic but are included here as tumefactions that are occasionally encountered in clinical practice. Fibrovascular polyps…
Non-neoplastic disorders of the esophagus come in a great variety of forms, including structural abnormalities, inflammatory, infectious, traumatic, vascular, and those associated with systemic diseases. Some entities are mostly diagnosed…
In shape the prostate resembles a Spanish chestnut. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., IV, 146/1, 1847–9 Very little is known as to the uses of the prostatic body. Todd’s Cycl. Anat. II,…
My reynes or Kidneis, hath chiden me unto the night. MORE Picus Wks. 20/1, 1510. That the watry humour may be separated from the blood, Nature hath added the Reins…
Every beest that gendreth hath a bladder. TREVISA Barth. De P.R.v.xliv (1495) 161, 1398. Because a man should do something else besides continually piss, the bladder was added to containe…
