Ischemic Gastritis: A Multicenter Case Series of a Rare Clinical Entity and a Review of the Literature.

Goals: To report a case series of ischemic gastritis and discuss its etiology, management, and associated mortality according to our results and the published English literature.

Background: Ischemic gastritis is rare, given the rich blood supply of the stomach. It has been reported in isolated case reports and small case series.

Adenovirus infection in adult orthotopic liver transplant recipients: incidence and clinical significance.

Adenovirus infection occurs in 10% of pediatric orthotopic liver transplant recipients; however, no cases have been described in adult liver transplant recipients. A retrospective review of 191 adults who underwent liver transplantation from January 1988 through October 1995 was done to describe the incidence and clinical significance of adenovirus infection in this population. There were 11 (5.

Desmoplastic small cell tumor: a report of three cases and a review of the literature.

Purpose: Desmoplastic round cell tumor (DSCT) is a highly malignant abdominal tumor first described in 1991, with subsequent cases predominantly noted in pathologic case reports. The authors evaluated response to alternating, intensive chemotherapy in three patients with DSCT, and reviewed the clinical experience with this newly described tumor as reported in the literature.

Patients And Methods: Three adolescent boys with DSCT were treated intravenously with vincristine 2 mg/m2, doxorubicin 75 mg/m2, cyclophosphamide 1.