Although functional dyspepsia (FD) is a common functional gastroduodenal disorder with a
high socioeconomic burden, little is known about its global prevalence. Thus, we performed …

Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs) are defined as mesenchymal tumours of the
gastrointestinal tract that express positivity for CD117, which is a c-KIT proto-oncogene …

OBJECTIVE Positron emission tomography (PET)–computed tomography has revealed that
metformin promotes the intestinal accumulation of [18F] fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), a …

Biomaterials have had a major impact on the practice of contemporary medicine and patient
care. Growing into a major interdisciplinary effort involving chemists, biologists, engineers …

Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS) is a rare, autosomal dominant disease linked to a mutation
of the STK 11 gene and is characterized by the development of benign hamartomatous …

Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs) are defined as CD117-positive primary, spindled or
epithelioid, mesenchymal tumours of the gastrointestinal tract, omentum, or mesentery …

Recently, the use of magnetic resonance (MR) in clinical practice for the evaluation of the
anterior mediastinum has considerably increased due to technological improvements and …

This article describes the recent advances in radiological imaging of malignant neoplasms
of the mesenteric small bowel and provides an outline of new trends and perspectives that …

BACKGROUND: Endovascular aortic repair (EVAR) has become an additional treatment
option for patients with infrarenal aortic aneurysms and suitable aortic morphology …

Purpose Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common malignancies in the world and
a multipathway disease. Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4) is a potent …