Diagnostic duodenal bulb biopsies in celiac disease

To evaluate duodenal bulb biopsies with respect to histological changes in the diagnosis of celiac disease as compared with biopsies from second part of duodenum. Endoscopic biopsies were obtained from 44 patients [23 females and 21 males] suspected clinically as having celiac disease. Four biopsy samples were obtained from each duodenal bulb and second part of duodenum. The histological changes were reported according to Marsh's classification. The histological changes were equally similar from biopsies of duodenal bulb as compared to second part in all except four patients. Mucosal specimens taken from duodenal bulb and second part of duodenum were strongly correlated histologically

Bronchogenic carcinoma, a histopathological study in Basrah province

Bronchogenic carcinoma was studied in two categories; a retrospective study of [440] cases for the period 1982-1992 inclusive, and a prospective study of [55] cases from July 1993 through 1994. The mean age of patients is [61.9] year. The male to female ratio is 4.4:1. Histologically, squamous cell carcinoma is the most frequent type [40.2%]. Adenocarcinoma is found to be the second most frequent type [27.6%] followed closely by small cell carcinoma [27.2%]. Large cell carcinoma is the least frequent type [4.2%], 0.6% of the cases are unclassified carcinomas. It is concluded that squamous cell carcinoma is still the most frequent histological type of lung cancer