Tuberculosis of the intestine, peritoneum and mesenteric lymph nodes according to the classification of tuberculosis adopted in our country (1973) is referred to the group of tuberculosis of other organs and systems (in contrast to pulmonary tuberculosis).
In the problem of the pathology of the small intestine, immunodeficiency states, accompanied by the development of one of the varieties of lymphoproliferative processes, benign nodular lymphoid hyperplasia, are of particular interest.
With expressed dysplasia of lymphoid tissue and malignant lymphomas of plasmocyte differentiation monoclonal gammopathy is often noted. In this case, the nature of gammopathy, as a rule, corresponds to the plasma-cell secretion of the field on which lymphoma develops.
Cystic pneumatosis of the intestine is very rare. According to A. A. Rusanov, by 1960, only 250 similar observations of the small intestine pneumatosis have been described in the literature, which occurs most often.
Nonspecific ulcers of the small intestine are extremely rare. In the literature, you can find only a few descriptions of this disease. These are nonspecific ulcers in contrast to ulcers of established nature, which can be tubercular, syphilitic and cancerous.
A special place among chronic enteritis of various etiology is radiation, or radiation, enteritis caused by ionizing radiation. It can be one of the manifestations of radiation sickness or arise as a result of X-ray therapy of malignant neoplasms of the abdominal cavity and pelvis.
Motor-evacuation disorders (dyskinesia) of the duodenum are revealed in lesions of the central and autonomic nervous system, endocrine disorders, systemic and parasitic diseases, and in patients undergoing stomach surgeries.
The term "dyspepsia", proposed by the Austrian pediatrician N. Widerhofer at the end of the last century, meant diseases of the gastrointestinal tract in children of a "functional" nature.
Congenital megacolon - a significant expansion of part or the entire colon, usually with a thickening of the muscular wall of its wall. Congenital megacolon can be caused by any obstacles for further movement of the contents of the colon (stenosis, membranous lintels, etc.), but more often is a congenital anomaly of its innervation - congenital agacglosis.
