Gastroenterology

Protective Effects of Mill. Fruit on Carbon Tetrachloride-induced Hepatotoxicity Mediated through Mitochondria and Restoration of Cellular Energy Content.

Quince ( Mill.) is one of the medicinal plant with a broad range of pharmacological activities such as hepatoprotective effect. The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of aqueous extract of Mill. fruit (ACOF) against carbon tetrachloride (CCl)-induced liver damage in rats. Hepatotoxicity was induced by CCl and all tested group animals were treated with the plant extract at a dose o...

Establishment and application of an artificial intelligence diagnosis system for pancreatic cancer with a faster region-based convolutional neural network.

BACKGROUND: Early diagnosis and accurate staging are important to improve the cure rate and prognosis for pancreatic cancer. This study was performed to develop an automatic and accurate imaging processing technique system, allowing this system to read computed tomography (CT) images correctly and make diagnosis of pancreatic cancer faster.

Deep neural network-assisted computed tomography diagnosis of metastatic lymph nodes from gastric cancer.

BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence-assisted image recognition technology is currently able to detect the target area of an image and fetch informatio...

Comment on "Robot-assisted Versus Laparoscopic Surgery for Rectal Cancer: A Phase II Open Label Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial".

Artificial intelligence in gastrointestinal endoscopy: how intelligent can it get?

[Clinical application of convolutional neural network in pathological diagnosis of metastatic lymph nodes of gastric cancer].

To examine the value and clinical application of convolutional neural network in pathological diagnosis of metastatic lymph nodes of gastric cancer. ...

High Accuracy of Convolutional Neural Network for Evaluation of Helicobacter pylori Infection Based on Endoscopic Images: Preliminary Experience.

OBJECTIVES: Application of artificial intelligence in gastrointestinal endoscopy is increasing. The aim of the study was to examine the accuracy of co...

[A Case of Jejunal Ectopic Pancreatic Cancer with Intestinal Perforation].

This patient was a 96-year-old woman. She was referred to our hospital with abdominal pain and vomiting. The levels of the tumor markers CEA and CA19-...

[Digestive Surgery Intervention for Gynecological Malignant Tumor].

AIM: This study aimed to determine surgical outcomes in patients with gynecological cancers for whom surgery was performed by gynecologists and digest...

[A Case of Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Portal Vein Tumor Thrombus Successfully Treated by Three-Dimensional Conformal Radiotherapy].

A man in his 50s was referred to our hospital with a liver tumor detected by ultrasonography during a medical checkup. Enhanced CT scan and MRI showed...

[Laparoscopic Gastro-Jejunostomy Using the Overlap Method after Subtotal Gastrectomy for Upper Gastric Cancer].

BACKGROUND: Due to an aging society, patients with gastric cancer are also getting older. Although total gastrectomy should be avoided for elderly pat...

[A Case of Disseminated Carcinomatosis of the Bone Marrow Developing 15 Months after Gastrectomy].

The patient was a 60-year-old man who underwent distal gastrectomy for gastric cancer. The pathological diagnosis was Stage ⅡB. He received adjuvant c...

[A Patient with Multiple Colorectal Liver Metastases for Whom Partial Splenic Embolization Contributed Extremely to Maintain Multidisciplinary Treatment].

After approximately 2.5 years of chemotherapy at the referred hospital, a 69-year-old man with double colon cancer and unresectable liver metastases(H...

[Curative Resection for Liver Metastasis Ten Years after Surgery for Rectosigmoid Cancer-A Case Report].

Here, we report the case of a 73-year-oldfemale patient, who previously underwent high anterior resection for rectosigmoidcancer at the age of 63. Her...

[Usefulness of the CONUT Score for Predicting the Risk of Surgical Site Infections].

BACKGROUND: Surgical site infections(SSIs)occur at a high frequency in patients after rectal cancer surgery and are readily aggravated. Therefore, pro...

[A Case of Breast Cancer Liver Metastases with Jaundice Responding to Chemotherapy].

A 50-year-old woman was referred to our hospital due to breast cancer with multiple liver metastasis diagnosed by CT scan. Laboratory findings showed ...

[A Case of Two Curative Resections for the Peritoneal Dissemination of Transverse Colon Cancer].

No large clinical trials have been conducted to prove the efficacy of peritoneal dissemination resection for colorectal cancer, and no evidence has sh...

[Short-Term Outcomes of Laparoscopic-Assisted Total Gastrectomy Using the Endoscopic Purse-String Suture Instrument ENDO-PSI].

Laparoscopic-assisted total gastrectomy(LATG)has several complications early during the introduction of the procedure, so a careful approach is necess...

[Rectal Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor(GIST)Excised by Two Teams Following Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy-A Case Report].

A 67-year-old man presented with bloody stools. Colonoscopy showed a small submucosal tumor in the lower rectum. As the tumor was small, follow-up was...

[Stage Ⅳ Breast Cancer with Difficulty in Initiating Chemotherapy-A Case Report].

We report a case of breast cancer(T4b[skin], N1, M1[lung], ER-, PR-, HER2 3+)in a 63-year-old woman with liver dysfunction of unknown cause(T-Bil 3.6m...