Neuroinvasion by Mycoplasma pneumoniae in acute disseminated encephalomyelitis.

We report the autopsy findings for a 45-year-old man with polyradiculoneuropathy and fatal acute disseminated encephalomyelitis after having Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia. M. pneumoniae antigens were demonstrated by immunohistochemical analysis of brain tissue, indicating neuroinvasion as an additional pathogenetic mechanism in central neurologic complications of M.

Satellite cysts and biliary fistulas in hydatid liver disease. A retrospective study of 17 liver resections.

In Switzerland, the preferred mode of treatment for hydatid liver disease caused by Echinococcus granulosus is surgery, giving us the opportunity for a retrospective histopathologic study of 17 consecutive liver resections. We focused on the occurrence of satellite cysts and of biliary fistulas and their effects on bile ducts. Of 17 patients, 6 (35%) had one or more satellite cysts, to be distinguished from internal daughter cysts.

Effect of timing of surgery on survival after preoperative hyperfractionated accelerated radiotherapy (HART) for locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC): is it a matter of days?

We intend to analyse retrospectively whether the time interval ("gap duration" = GD) between preoperative radiotherapy and surgery in locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) has an impact on overall survival (OS), cancer specific survival (CSS), disease free survival (DFS) and local control (LC). Two hundred seventy nine patients with LARC were entered in Trial 93-01 (hyperfractionated accelerated radiotherapy 41.6 Gy/26 Fx BID) shortly followed by surgery.

Preoperative hyper-fractionated accelerated radiotherapy (HART) in locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) immediately followed by surgery. A prospective phase II trial.

Background And Purpose: We aim to report on local control in a phase II trial on preoperative hyper-fractionated and accelerated radiotherapy schedule (HART) in locally advanced resectable rectal cancer (LARC). This fractionation schedule was designed to keep the overall treatment time (OTT) as short as possible.

Patients And Methods: This is a prospective trial on patients with UICC stages II and III rectal cancer.

Inflammatory myoglandular polyp--a rare but distinct type of colorectal polyps.

The aim of this paper was to report another example of a rare type of colorectal polyps, the inflammatory myoglandular polyp, and to reaffirm this type of polyp as a distinct entity. This solitary pedunculated polyp was detected after a single episode of rectal bleeding. It was situated in the sigmoid colon, measured 2.

Human prion diseases: epidemiology and integrated risk assessment.

Human prion diseases are devastating and incurable, but are very rare. Fears that the bovine spongiform encephalopathy epizootic would lead to a large epidemic of its presumed human counterpart, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), have not been realised. Yet a feeling of uncertainty prevails in the general public and in the biomedical world.