Vol 20 No 4: December 2011 | Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases

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Purtscher’s-like Retinopathy - A Rare Complication of Acute Pancreatitis

Irina Ciortescu, Dana Cozma, Bogdan Epure, Lucia Epifanov, Vasile Drug, Marioara Stan

345

Solitary Necrotic Nodule of the Liver

Kemal Deniz, Tarık Artış, Fatoş Tekelioğlu, Serdal Özcan

346

Colonic Angiodysplasia with Adenomatous Epithelial Foci

Alessandro Federico, Pasquale Esposito, Antonietta Gerarda Gravina, Luigi Martorelli, Giuseppe Esposito, Marco Romano

347

An Unusual Presentation of Enterolithiasis

Kunal Shetty, Ashwin Sridhar

348

Original Article

Performance of Routine Helicobacter pylori Tests in Patients with Atrophic Gastritis

Agnese Sudraba, Ilva Daugule, Dace Rudzite, Konrads Funka, Ivars Tolmanis, Lars Engstrand, Dainius Janciauskas, Laimas Jonaitis, Gediminas Kiudelis, Limas Kupcinskas, Audrius Ivanauskas, Marcis Leja

349-354

Long-term Outcome of Patients with Distal Ulcerative Colitis and Inflammation of the Appendiceal Orifice

Juan E. Naves, Vicente Lorenzo-Zúñiga, Laura Marín, Míriam Mañosa, Blanca Oller, Vicente Moreno, Yamile Zabana, Jaume Boix, Eduard Cabré, Eugeni Domènech

355-358

Response to First Intravenous Steroid Therapy Determines the Subsequent Risk of Colectomy in Ulcerative Colitis Patients

Tamás Molnár, Klaudia Farkas, Tibor Nyári, Zoltán Szepes, Ferenc Nagy, Tibor Wittmann

359-363

Tumour Necrosis Factor-Alpha Expression in Segmental Colitis Associated with Diverticulosis Down-Regulates After Treatment

Antonio Tursi, Walter Elisei, Giovanni Brandimarte, Gian Marco Giorgetti, Cosimo Damiano Inchingolo, Rosanna Nenna, Enzo Ierardi

365=370

Interleukin-16 (IL-16) Gene Polymorphisms in Iranian Patients with Colorectal Cancer

Pedram Azimzadeh, Sara Romani, Seyed Reza Mohebbi, Shabnam Kazemian, Mohsen Vahedi, Shohreh Almasi, Seyed Reza Fatemi, Mohammad Reza Zali

371-376

Weight-Based Dosing Regimen of Peg-Interferon α-2b for Chronic Hepatitis Delta: a Multicenter Romanian Trial

Liana Gheorghe, Speranta Iacob, Iulia Simionov, Roxana Vadan, Ileana Constantinescu, Florin Caruntu, Ioan Sporea, Mircea Grigorescu

377-382

Use of Elderly Donors for Liver Transplantation: Has the Limit Been Reached?

Quirino Lai, Fabio Melandro, Giovanni Battista Levi Sandri, Gianluca Mennini, Stefano Ginanni Corradini, Manuela Merli, Pasquale Bartolomeo Berloco, Massimo Rossi

383-387

Clinicopathological Correlations of Nestin Expression in Surgically Resectable Pancreatic Cancer Including an Analysis of Perineural Invasion

Jiri Lenz, Petr Karasek, Jiri Jarkovsky, Katarina Muckova, Petr Dite, Zdenek Kala, Renata Veselska, Marketa Hermanova

389-396

Clinical imaging

Endomicroscopy for Assessing Mucosal Healing in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis

Cristian Gheorghe, Bogdan Cotruta, Razvan Iacob, Gabriel Becheanu, Mona Dumbrava, Liana Gheorghe

423-426

Case Reports

Small Cell Carcinoma: an Unusual Location in a Young Healthy Female

Steven Lichtenstein, Nicole E. Albert, Anna Muchnik, Mini Abraham

427-430

Esophageal Xanthoma – Report of Two New Cases and Review of the Literature

Gabriel Becheanu, Mona Dumbrava, Tudor Arbanas, Mircea Diculescu, Nadia Hoyeau-Idrissi, Jean-François Fléjou

431-433

Gastric Ulcer Bleeding from a Variant Left Gastric Artery Accompanied by Congenital Absence of the Splenic Artery Successfully Treated With Coil Embolization: a Case Report and Review of the Literature

Masashi Namikawa, Satoru Kakizaki, Satoshi Takakusaki, Shuichi Saito, Yutaka Yata, Masatomo Mori

435-438

Well-Differentiated Neuroendocrine Carcinoma Mimicking an Echinococcus Cyst of the Liver in CT – MRI Findings with Hepatocyte Specific Contrast Material

Michaela Krohn, Christian Grieser, Wilko Weichert, Andreas Pascher, Timm Denecke

439-442