Biomedical subjects
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A 13-year-old child presented with a ruptured aneurysm of the trunk of the superior mesenteric artery most likely due to incipient fibromuscular disease localized in the adventitia. The aneurysm was resected and replaced by an autologous saphenous vein graft. The postoperative course was uneventful. Diagnosis and operative strategy are discussed.
Colonoscopy is now a routine examination in the diagnosis and the follow-up of I.B.D. The most typical aspects of endoscopic and histological lesions are described. Colonoscopy and histological study of endoscopic biopsies permit a differential diagnosis of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis in 90% of the cases. Certain cases remain indeterminate even after colectomy.
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At post-mortem examination of a 75-year-old man, a fragment of polyethylene catheter placed several years previously was discovered in the right pulmonary artery. It was embedded in a vessel wall and caused an atheromatous plaque, a rare complication in human pathology.
A patient with diffuse hepatic arteriovenous microfistulae suffered from secondary high-output right ventricular failure, pulmonary hypertension, and ascites, all of which could be managed by selective embolization of the hepatic artery. The vascular lesion of the liver seems to be essential, although hemorrhagic hereditary telangiectasia , perhaps aggravated by administration of oral contraceptives, may be considered contributory factors in this case.
Clinical and pathological findings in a forty-eight-year-old woman with malignant mesenchymatous hamartoma of the liver (embryonic sarcoma) are reported. Special emphasis is put on the monomorphic leiomyosarcomatous aspect of the peritoneal metastases, and on the presence of pseudo-tumorous foci abounding in plasmocytes and centered by recent phlebitis.
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Liver ultrasound was prospectively evaluated in 104 subjects who underwent liver biopsy, including 24 patients without evidence of liver disease (controls), and 80 with a broad spectrum of liver pathology. Ultrasonography was very specific (100%) and moderately sensitive (70%) in the detection of liver pathology, and hepatic neoplasms, steatosis, and fibrosis were detected by ultrasound in 80%, 80%, and 67% of cases respectively. In addition, ultrasonography diagnosed other pathologies--mainly biliary tract disease and abdominal neoplasms--in 26% of the patients.
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