[Extraintestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel diseases and their management].

Extraintestinal manifestations of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease are symptoms of varied organ injuries due to systemic inflammatory process. Bowel disease seems to be primary but upon genetic disposition disturbed immune regulation may result in inflammation of other organs that may appear simultaneously, precede bowel disease or follow it in the quiescent phase. As far as possible extraintestinal manifestations have to be distinguished from the complications of the intestinal inflammation and also from side effects of drugs for its treatment.

[Gastric micropneumatosis: a rare endoscopic entity].

The rarely described gastric micropneumatosis is caused by accumulating air in the mucus membrane. It may associate mainly with Helicobacter pylori positive atrophic gastritis or with pneumatosis due to gas producing bacteria or non-infectious causes. In our case the disorder was diagnosed in a 69 years old patient, taking clopidogrel, living in a nursing home, with history of hypertension, general arteriosclerosis, cerebral infarction, who was admitted to our department because of melaena and hematemesis.

[Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis, as a rare complications of coeliac disease].

Intestinal pneumatosis cystoides is rarely diagnosed clinical entity characterized by multiple gas containing cysts inside the wall of the gastrointestinal tract. Primary (15%) and secondary (85%) forms are known. In the more frequent secondary forms small intestine and the right side of the colon are mainly affected, and the underlying pathology can be gastrointestinal, pulmonary or immunological.

[Bile duct obstruction caused by neurofibroma in a patient with Recklinghausen's disease].

Introduction: Neurofibromatosis type-I (von Recklinghausen's disease) is characterised by multiple cutan neurofibromas, cafe-au-lait spots, bone abnormalities and tumours of central and peripheral nerves. Gastrointestinal involvement occurs in 25 percent of all cases.

Case Report: The authors report a case of a 53-year-old man presenting with rare hepatobiliary complication.

[Common bile duct tumor in a young woman with ulcerative colitis].

Bile duct carcinoma is a rare complication of ulcerative colitis. In most of the cases it tends to occur together with primary sclerosing cholangitis predominantly in older males. The authors report a case of a 25 year old woman presenting with jaundice, 6 years after the diagnosis of colitis was made.