Radiographic evaluation of complications after jejunoileal bypass surgery

A retrospective analysis of 89 patients who underwent jejunoileal bypass surgery for morbid obesity disclosed 33 complications that were detected radiographically. Intestinal obstruction (10.1% of patients), cholecystitis (5.6%), renal stones (4.5%), peptic ulcer (3.4%), megacolon (6.7%), and elongation of the small intestine with hypertrophy of the mucosal folds of the jejunum (6.7%) were diagnosed solely by radiographic means.     

The response of transplants of cultured fetal mouse ovaries in kidneys of ovariectomized adult mice

Whole ovaries from 16-day fetal mice were cultured for 6 to 20 days and then transplanted to the kidneys of ovariectomized adult mice where they remained for one to four weeks. After three weeks in the host's kidneys, many follicles developed within the transplants and became vesiculated. Many of the oocytes within these follicles had formed the first metaphase spindle of meiosis and several had completed the first polar body. Host mice bearing transplants that contained vesiculated follicles showed uterine stimulation and keratinization of their vaginae. However, ovaries that had been in culture for more than ten days before transplantation showed a limited response to the gonadotropins and never matured sufficiently to stimulate the host's reproductive tract. No ovulations occurred in any of the transplants.     

Indium-111 chloride scanning for identification of experimental abscesses

A review of all granulomatous surgical lesions in the files of the Free University Hospital revealed four cases of histoplasmoma in which Grocott-staining procedures provided histologic confirmation of the presence of Histoplasma capsulatum bodies. The case histories have been presented briefly. A short review of the literature follows.     

Optic disk vasculitis

A 44-year-old woman developed progressive loss of vision associated initially with a swollen optic disk, and later with optic atrophy and a diffuse retinal vasculopathy, which caused extensive retinal hemorrhagagic. Histopathologic examination showed hemorrhagagic infarction of the retina, as well as infarction of the anterior optic nerve. In the optic nerve, the central retinal vessels showed extensive phlebitis and occlusion of many small arterioles.