Vol. 20 No. 4: December 2011

Images of the Issue

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

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

345
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Solitary Necrotic Nodule of the Liver

Kemal Deniz, Tarık Artış, Fatoş Tekelioğlu, Serdal Özcan

346
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Colonic Angiodysplasia with Adenomatous Epithelial Foci

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

347
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An Unusual Presentation of Enterolithiasis

Kunal Shetty, Ashwin Sridhar

348
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Reviews

Hepatitis C Virus Infection and Genetic Susceptibility to Therapy

Bernhard Sibbing, Jacob Nattermann

397-406
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Endoscopic Ultrasound: Current Role and Future Perspectives in Managing Rectal Cancer Patients

Elena Tatiana Cârţână, Daniel Pârvu, Adrian Săftoiu

407-413
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Combined Cardiac Surgery and Liver Transplantation: Three Decades of Worldwide Results

Alexandros Giakoustidis, Thomas P. Cherian, Nikolaos Antoniadis, Dimitrios Giakoustidis

415-421
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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
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Case Reports

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

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

427-430
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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
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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
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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
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Letters

ALDH as a tumor marker for pancreatic cancer

Ciprian Tomuleasa, Ofelia Moşteanu, Sergiu Şuşman, Victor Cristea

443-446
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Authors’s reply

Wojciech Jelski, Emilia Kutylowska, Magdalena Laniewska-Dunaj, Maciej Szmitkowski

443-446
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Antiviral treatment for HCV-related cirrhosis: Is the effort worth it ?

Fanpu Ji, Zongfang Li, Hong Deng

443-446
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Authors’ reply

Simona Bota, Ioan Sporea, Roxana Şirli

443-446
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Images of the Issue

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

Solitary Necrotic Nodule of the Liver

Colonic Angiodysplasia with Adenomatous Epithelial Foci

An Unusual Presentation of Enterolithiasis

Original Article

Performance of Routine Helicobacter pylori Tests in Patients with Atrophic Gastritis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reviews

Hepatitis C Virus Infection and Genetic Susceptibility to Therapy

Endoscopic Ultrasound: Current Role and Future Perspectives in Managing Rectal Cancer Patients

Combined Cardiac Surgery and Liver Transplantation: Three Decades of Worldwide Results

Clinical imaging

Endomicroscopy for Assessing Mucosal Healing in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis

Case Reports

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

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

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

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

Letters

ALDH as a tumor marker for pancreatic cancer

Authors’s reply

Antiviral treatment for HCV-related cirrhosis: Is the effort worth it ?

Authors’ reply

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