ABSTRACT
The patient aged 60 underwent extirpation of the thoracic oesophagus followed by esophagogastroplasty and splenectomy. There was a polyp-like neoplasm 12 cm long and 3 cm in diameter on a crus originating from the esophageal wall and diagnosed histologically as a malignant fibrous histiocytoma infiltrating muscular coat at the site of the crus. The patient died of suppurative mediastinitis 8 days later.
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Esophageal Neoplasms/pathology , Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous/pathology , Diagnosis, Differential , Esophageal Neoplasms/diagnosis , Esophagus/pathology , Fibrosis , Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous/diagnosis , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Polyps/diagnosis , Polyps/pathologyABSTRACT
A 34-year-old male with no diseases in the past developed, after a 7-day alcoholic abuse, an acute pancreatitis and ulcerative necrotic colitis. At the autopsy, apart from the underlying disease, the pulmonary pneumocystosis was found which is considered by the authors as a complication of a severe pathology of the alimentary tract organs followed by immune system dysfunction.
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Colitis, Ulcerative/complications , Lung/pathology , Pneumonia, Pneumocystis/pathology , Acute Disease , Adult , Humans , Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes/complications , Male , Pancreatitis/complications , Pneumonia, Pneumocystis/etiologyABSTRACT
The authors report about 3 cases of the congenital adreno-genital syndrome in first-born children with a high weight at birth (3900, 3600, and 4200 g) who perished in early infancy. One child, who was considered to be a boy, died of septic postoperative complications; during the operation the uterus, ovaries, tubes, phenomena of pseudofemale hemaphroditis were observed. The considerably enlarged adrenals were gyral, goffered and their cortex consisted of cells of the fetal zone. Two other boys, who perished at the age of 3 1/2 and 2 1/2 months, were sick from the birth. In the clinical picture there prevailed anorexia, dehydration, regurgitation, periodic vomiting, convulsions, clonic spasms, Hyponatrema, hyperkalemia, sudden arrest of the heart, rose no suspicion in pediatricians with respect to the salt-losing form of the adreno-genital syndrome. Post-mortem examination revealed congenital hyperplasia of the adrenals, whose cortex consisted of the fetal zone cells.
