Publications by authors named "I A el Hag"

Article Synopsis
  • Many patients visit our clinic with infection and experience nonspecific symptoms that are hard to diagnose.
  • The European and North American pediatric gastroenterology societies recommend upper gastroscopy for identifying the causes of these symptoms.
  • The case of a 9-year-old girl reveals that she was diagnosed with gastric lymphoma linked to infection, emphasizing the crucial role of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in younger patients.
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Objective: The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytology (BSFRTC) is widely adopted in the management of thyroid nodules. The system was updated in 2017, and its impact is the subject of this paper.

Methods: All thyroid fine needle aspirations from 2016-2020 using the BSFRTC, with follow-up surgical pathology, were reviewed.

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The mutation γ375Arg → Trp (fibrinogen Aguadilla) is one of four mutations (Brescia, Aguadilla, Angers, and AI duPont) capable of causing hepatic storage of fibrinogen. It has been observed in four children from the Caribbean, Europe, and Japan, suffering from cryptogenic liver disease. We report the first case of hepatic fibrinogen storage disease in Arabs due to a mutation in the fibrinogen γ-chain gene in a 3-year-old Syrian girl presenting with elevated liver enzymes.

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Background and Objective. Despite the extensive reporting of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) from industrialized developed countries, reports from developing countries are rare. The aim of our study was to determine the epidemiological, clinical, and endoscopic features of EoE and response to therapy in children and adults from a developing country, Saudi Arabia.

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Introduction. Granulocytic sarcoma (GS), also known as chloroma or extramedullary myeloblastoma, is a solid tumor composed of primitive precursors of the granulocytic series that include myeloblasts, promyelocytes, and myelocytes. Granulocytic sarcoma is a rare tumor that may develop during acute myeloid leukemia (AML) but less frequently may precede its presentation.

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