CHENNAI: Ever wondered how digestion happens in the body? The food we eat transverse through four tubes — the oesophagus, ...

The initial impression from the colonoscopy and biopsy results was that the patient ... and friability of the ileocecal valve (Figure 1); the terminal ileum could not be intubated.

Introduction Terminal ileum (TI) intubation at colonoscopy may be useful in ... Colonoscopy reports and case notes were reviewed to establish if biopsy results were clinically relevant (defined as ...

Biopsies were sampled using biopsy pinches from the fresh resected tissue at the ... Biopsies were sampled from the neoterminal ileum (above the anastomosis) and the subanastomotic colon (below the ...

THE fact that extension of the inflammatory process to the terminal portion of the ileum occurs in patients with chronic ulcerative colitis is fairly well known, but it has not received sufficient ...

The symptoms include abdominal pain, weight loss, vomiting and diarrhea. Biopsy samples taken during endoscopic examination allows the diagnosis of the disease. An infiltration of >30 eosinophils ...

This type causes inflammation in the final section of your small intestine, known as the ileum, as well as in your colon (large intestine). The ileum absorbs water, carbohydrates, proteins ...

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Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was normal. Ileocolonoscopy revealed ileocaecal valve deformation, and ileum and colon ulcerations (figure 3A, B). Biopsies of intestinal mucosa showed architectural ...