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Usha

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Hepatic changes during short-term haemodialysis.

Twenty five patients with end stage renal disease were studied to find out the biochemical and hepatic morphological changes during short term haemodialysis. Asymptomatic hepatomegaly was seen in 32% of cases, transaminase elevation in 28% and positive Australia antigen in 12% of cases. Histopathological changes were observed in all the 12 patients in whom liver biopsy was done. Ten patients (82%) exhibited multiple abnormalities. The commonest findings were fatty change (8 patients); hepatic congestion, focal necrosis, Kupffer cell hyperplasia (6 patients each); and portal triaditis (5 patients).

Adult↗

Pre-cancerous lesions of stomach.

Total 39 cases of carcinoma stomach were noticed out of 142 malignant tumours of GIT (27.46 percent). Histologically maximum cases were of diffuse type (56.41 percent) followed by intestinal type (35.89 percent) and indolent mucoid carcinoma (7.69 percent) of the stomach. The surrounding epithelium showed lot of changes in the intestinal type of carcinoma stomach. About 78.57 percent showed intestinal metaplasia, 14.28 percent of these cases showed chronic gastric ulcer and severe dysplasia (carcinoma in situ) and another 14.28 percent revealed villous adenoma with carcinoma in situ. In contrast to this, in diffuse variety, only 13.63 percent cases revealed intestinal metaplasia, 27.27 percent showed basal cell hyperplasia, stratification of the epithelium of crypts and diffuse infiltration of mucosa by malignant cells and 4.54 percent showed atrophic gastritis also. In mucoid carcinoma all cases had basal cell hyperplasia and stratification of crypts. Hence these conditions should be taken as premalignant lesions of stomach and should be cured in proper time.

Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous↗

Clinicopathological studies of carcinoma oesophagus with special reference to changes in surrounding epithelium.

A total 17 cases of carcinoma oesophagus were studied in a period of 2 years. Ten patients (58.82%) were males and rest were females. Maximum cases (64.70%) were seen in 5th and 6th decades. Majority of the patients belonged to low socio-economic group (47.05%) followed by middle socio-economic group (41.17%). Dysphagia was present in all cases, followed by weight loss 52.94% and other symptoms. Cancer was equally distributed in middle third and lower third of the oesophagus (41.18% in each group) only in 3 cases it was in upper third of the oesophagus. Histologically 70.5% tumours were squamous cell carcinoma, 17.64% were adenocarcinoma and 11.76% were undifferentiated carcinoma. Surrounding epithelium in 17.64 per cent cases showed chronic oesophagitis, 4 cases (23.52%) showed acanthosis and dysplasia, and two cases revealed carcinoma in situ. Hence findings of oesophagitis, acanthosis, dysplasia, carcinoma in situ suggest that oesophagitis and acanthosis may be considered as precancerous lesions.

Adenocarcinoma↗