Treatment of esophageal stricture due to lichen planus with intralesional corticosteroid injection.

Herein we presented a male patient with esophageal stricture due to lichen planus successfully treated with repeated injections of intralesional triamcinolone and review the current literature on esophageal lichen planus with special emphasis on its treatment.

Unusual cholangiographic findings in a patient with primary sclerosing cholangitis: cystic dilatation.

A 45-year-old woman with the diagnosis of primary sclerosing cholangitis and ulcerative colitis admitted with the complaints of pruritus and jaundice. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography revealed entirely narrow, irregular common bile duct and common hepatic duct and unusual cystic dilations in the common hepatic duct and left hepatic duct. Balloon dilation of the common bile duct was performed, and a 10 F double pigtail stent was inserted into the cyst.

Ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy and ultrasonographic features of infracentimetric nodules in patients with nodular goiter: correlation with pathological findings.

We evaluated the usefulness of ultrasound-guided fine-needle-aspiration biopsy (US-FNAB) for infracentimetric nodules. In addition, we used sonography to assess the risk of malignancy of thyroid nodules, and we evaluated the extent of disease in infracentimetric cancers. The cytopathological results of 472 US-FNABs from 207 nodular goiter patients (170 women, 37 men; mean age, 51.

High prevalence of diabetes in Adana, a southern province of Turkey.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of diabetes and glucose intolerance and their relationship with risk factors in Adana, a southern province of Turkey, where risk factors are more prominent, probably because of social and economic reasons.

Research Design And Methods: The study population included 1637 randomly selected adults aged 20-79 years. Diagnosis of diabetes was based on plasma glucose values using the 1999 diagnostic criteria recommended by the World Health Organization.