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A Paterlini

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Jejunal endoscopic polypectomy in the Peutz-Jeghers syndrome.

The authors describe a transendoscopic wire snare excision of three jejunal polyps in a patient with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome. Two years previously the patient had undergone surgical jejunal segmental resection for invagination caused by several polyps, one of which revealed carcinoma in situ. The procedure was well tolerated, and the subsequent course was uneventful. Endoscopic follow-up of the proximal jejunal polyps in this syndrome is stressed.

Adult↗

Psychological distress in duodenal ulcer and acute gastroduodenitis. A controlled study.

The aim of the study was to assess psychological distress in duodenal ulcer (DU) and acute gastroduodenitis (AGD). Sixty-one consecutive, unselective patients (DU = 25; AGD = 36) were compared with their respective controls matched for age, sex, level of formal education, and social class. Psychological distress was assessed using the Kellner-Sheffield Symptom Rating Test. In order to reduce to the minimum the possible effects of the duration of the symptoms and awareness of the diagnosis, the study was carried out before diagnosis on subjects whose symptoms were of recent onset. The DU and AGD patients had higher mean scores than the controls for neuroticism and anxiety; moreover the mean scores for depression and somatization of the AGD patients were also higher than those of the controls. On the basis of these data, the authors discuss the possibility that gastroduodenitis might be an independent entity or part of the spectrum of acid peptic (ulcer) disease.

Acute Disease↗

[Pediatric digestive endoscopy: personal experience].

Fiberendoscopy has become a diagnostic and therapeutic procedure of the outmost importance also in pediatric gastroenterology. 100 gastrointestinal fiberoscopies have been carried out on 81 patients ranging in age from 1 month to 14 years during a three-year period (November 79 - October 82), using general anesthesia for 9 patients. The 70 upper GI endoscopies, almost always performed with the Olympus GIF P2 instrument, showed acute or chronic, limited or diffuse inflammatory changes in most cases; post-bulbar areas were successfully visualized in 46 patients. The 30 colonoscopies were carried out with the standard adult equipment in most part of cases; in 50% of cases the inspection was extended to the caecum. Inflammatory diseases have been frequently revealed, but more frequently no remarkable changes were found. Indications for "operative" endoscopy were dilatation of an esophageal achalasia and removal of four gastrointestinal bleeding polyps. All procedures gave satisfactory results, and no morbidity occurred to patients.

Adolescent↗