Digestive diseases (Basel, Switzerland)

INTRODUCTION: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and endometriosis are chronic inflammatory diseases occurring in young women, sharing some clinical manifestations. In a multidisciplinary approach, we aimed to investigate symptoms, type, and …

Chronic pancreatitis (CP), defined as a continuing inflammatory disease of the pancreas characterized by irreversible morphological changes which typically cause abdominal pain and/or permanent impairment of pancreatic function, has proved …

Chronic pancreatitis is an inflammatory disease of the pancreas, characterized by a progressive destruction of the exocrine and endocrine pancreas, leading both to exocrine and endocrine insufficiency. In recent years, our knowledge of this…

The gastric cardia is a microscopic zone that is normally found in the most proximal portion of the stomach, although cardiac-type mucosa may arise in the distal esophagus as a metaplastic phenomenon secondary to gastroesophageal reflux dis…

Functional disorders of the gastrointestinal tract comprise a common but ill-defined group of diseases; they primarily afflict women. Although predominantly involving nerve and muscle, the cellular and molecular bases of the pathogenesis of…

Although adenocarcinoma of the stomach has decreased in incidence over the past several decades, cancer of the gastric cardia has increased rapidly over this time frame. There are several differences between adenocarcinoma of the cardia and…