Typhoid fever is often associated with abnormal liver biochemical tests, but severe hepatic involvement with a clinical feature of acute hepatitis is a rare complication. There have been more than 150 cases of salmonella hepatitis reported from both developed and developing countries. The documented incidence varies widely from less than 1% to 26% patients with enteric fever.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA rare case of amoebic liver abscess that ruptured into the pericardial cavity is reported. This is the first case in the world in which CT scan and ultrasonography were performed in conjunction with each other in demonstrating the fistulous tract. CT scan, ultrasonographic and echocardiographic findings were described in detail.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe monoclonal antibody RL23/36 has been shown to discriminate normal from malignant hepatocytes in man. In frozen sections of liver tissue from 25 Thai patients without hepatocellular carcinomas, the antibody reacted strongly and preferentially with hepatocytes. Reactivity with 7 hepatocellular carcinomas was invariably abnormal, being totally absent in 5 and partially lost in 2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGastrointest Endosc
February 1987
A study was conducted to determine the value of peritoneoscopy in the diagnosis of opisthorchiasis. Peritoneoscopic findings in 203 proven cases of Opisthorchis viverrini infection are presented. The authors found that cholangiocarcinoma is frequently encountered in patients presenting with prolonged jaundice and hepatomegaly as well as with the peritoneoscopic findings of dilated superficial intrahepatic bile ducts, a bile-stained liver surface and a markedly enlarged gallbladder.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPancreozymin-secretin-stimulated secretion was measured for volume, bicarbonate concentration and total amylase output in 16 noninsulin-dependent patients and 23 age-, sex-, and weight-matched similar control subjects. Another group of 17 insulin-dependent patients was studied using secretin stimulation and the secretory response compared to a similar group of 37 control subjects. Pancreozymin-secretin-stimulated pancreatic function was normal in noninsulin-dependent patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThirty-seven patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), one with cholangiocellular carcinoma (CCC), two with mixed HCC and CCC, and one with an anaplastic primary carcinoma of the liver, all from Bangkok, Thailand, were examined for the presence of hepatitis B virus infection markers in their blood. Of the patients with HCC, 70.6% had macronodular cirrhosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAmong 4569 cases of peritoneoscopy performed in a period of 10 years (1972-1981), 108 patients with liver abscesses were encountered. The diagnosis of hepatic abscess was made on the basis of gross liver inspection and confirmed or disproved by needle puncture biopsy, histopathologic study, or surgery. Peritoneoscopy is a valuable procedure for the diagnosis of liver abscess.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA case of paraganglioma arising in the common hepatic duct is reported. The patient presented with obstructive jaundice. At operation, a soft mass, 5 X 2 X 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOf 37 patients with histologically verified hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) from Bangkok, Thailand, 34 had raised values of plasma cobalamin, and 1 presented with a markedly increased value of plasma transcobalamin I (TC I). One patient with clinical malignancy of the liver, not proven histologically to be HCC, had a raised plasma cobalamin value and a markedly increased value of TC I. From our own studies and from studies in the literature we find circumstantial evidence that TC I occasionally is produced by the malignant liver cells in HCC.
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October 1981
Infections of the thyroid gland have been reported for various organisms, bacterial, parasite, fungus and virus, acute or chronic, suppurative or non-suppurative. Two rare conditions when combined are even rarer, the tuberculous abscess of the retrosternal thyroid gland, causing extrinsic pressure effect and producing dysphagia. Rapid relief of symptoms occurred after surgery and followed after antituberculous therapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDuring the past 20 years, trends have been observed in primary hepatocellular carcinoma in Thailand. There is a definite increase in the association between HCC and cirrhosis of liver from 16.6% in 1958 to 50.
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