Clinicopathological profile of gastrointestinal lymphomas in Kashmir.

Background: The histological categorization of lymphoma has been a source of controversy for many years for both clinicians and pathologists. Clinicopathologic information of gastrointestinal lymphomas in Indian subcontinent is lacking. We studied histopathological spectrum of Primary Gastrointestinal Lymphomas (PGIL) and attempted to classify the G.

Role of Scrape Cytology as an Adjunct to Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology in Diagnosis of Thyroid Lesions.

Introduction: Scrape cytology is an important diagnostic tool. It has been used in many tissue types as an adjunct or replacement for frozen section/ intra operative consultation.

Aim: This study was done to evaluate the role of scrape cytology in the diagnosis of thyroid lesions, its role as an adjunct to Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) and application of this technique for intra-operative consultation.

Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care tests for hepatitis C virus infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Point-of-care tests provide a plausible diagnostic strategy for hepatitis C infection in economically impoverished areas. However, their utility depends upon the overall performance of individual tests.

Methods: A literature search was conducted using the metasearch engine Mettā, a query interface for retrieving articles from five leading medical databases.

Erratum to: Seroepidemiology of a second epidemic of hepatitis E in a population that had recorded first epidemic 30 years before and has been under surveillance since then.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1007/s12072-009-9159-5.].

Seroepidemiology of a second epidemic of hepatitis E in a population that had recorded first epidemic 30 years before and has been under surveillance since then.

Purpose: Large-scale waterborne epidemics of hepatitis E occur in developing countries. It is not known why these epidemics occur repeatedly and selectively in adult population?

Methods: We studied seroepidemiology of an outbreak of hepatitis E in one of 15 villages that had recorded first epidemic of hepatitis E 30 years back. Another village not affected by the second epidemic was taken as a control.

Treatment of type I gastric neuroendocrine tumors with somatostatin analogs.

Background And Aim: There are limited data on response and long-term follow-up of octreotide therapy in type-I gastric neuroendocrine tumors. The objective of the present study was to assess the response of type-I gastric neuroendocrine tumors to octreotide-long acting, repeatable (LAR) therapy and evaluate long-term follow up of such patients after therapy.

Methods: Three patients with documented type-I gastric neuroendocrine tumors from a tertiary gastroenterology centre were studied.

Anomalous pancreaticobiliary ductal union in tropical calcific pancreatitis.

Context: Tropical calcific pancreatitis is unique to developing countries with of unknown origin.

Objective: We evaluated the pattern of pancreaticobiliary ductal union in patients with tropical calcific pancreatitis.

Patients: Twenty-one patients with tropical calcific pancreatitis were compared to 174 control subjects with no pancreaticobiliary disease and 35 patients with alcohol-induced chronic pancreatitis.