A 2.7-cm orthodontic wire caused appendicitis in an 11-year-old girl in California, according to a report published in the August issue of the Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports. The girl, who ...

BOTH the acute and chronic forms of regional enteritis have been well known pathologic entities in adults for the past twenty years. However, surprisingly little has been written about either form of ...

Background and Aim: Since the diagnostic value of ileoscopy is not well documented, it is uncertain if terminal ileum intubation should be performed routinely in patients undergoing colonoscopy. We ...

Biopsy specimens from the terminal ileum of 32 patients with the histopathological diagnosis of lymphocytic colitis or collagenous colitis and 11 control individuals were evaluated for the presence or ...

THE fact that extension of the inflammatory process to the terminal portion of the ileum occurs in patients with chronic ulcerative colitis is fairly well known, but it has not received sufficient ...