Oncology/Hematology

A Machine-Learning Approach Using PET-Based Radiomics to Predict the Histological Subtypes of Lung Cancer.

PURPOSE: We sought to distinguish lung adenocarcinoma (ADC) from squamous cell carcinoma using a machine-learning algorithm with PET-based radiomic features.

[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. Totally 124 patients with advanced gastric cancer who underwent radical gastrectomy plus D2 lymphadenectomy at Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University from July 2016 to December 2018 were selected in the study. According to the chronological order...

Differentiation of non-small cell lung cancer and histoplasmosis pulmonary nodules: insights from radiomics model performance compared with clinician observers.

BACKGROUND: Histoplasmosis pulmonary nodules often present in computed tomography (CT) imaging with characteristics suspicious for lung cancer. This p...

Diagnostic accuracy of single-source dual-energy computed tomography and ultrasonography for detection of lateral cervical lymph node metastases of papillary thyroid carcinoma.

BACKGROUND: Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) imaging can generate iodine-based material decomposition (MD) images and spectral HU curve. This st...

Prevalence, clinicopathological features, and prognosis in upper tract urinary carcinoma patients with severe preoperative chronic kidney disease.

BACKGROUND: Studies regarding the prevalence and factors associated with severe pre-operative chronic kidney disease (CKD) in upper tract urinary carc...

Comparison of prostate cancer detection rates between magnetic resonance imaging-targeted biopsy and transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsy according to Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data System in patients with PSA ≥4 ng/mL: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have investigated magnetic resonance imaging-targeted biopsy (MRI-TBx) on the detection for prostate cancer (PCa). Prosta...

Glasses-free 3D versus 2D video-assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy: a single-center short-term comparative study.

BACKGROUND: Thymectomy is widely used to for the treatment of thymomas, thymic cysts, thymic adenocarcinomas, and other thymic diseases. The developme...

[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-...

[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...

[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...

[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 Splenic Lymph Node Metastasis from the Distal Bile Duct Carcinoma Seven Years after a Curative Resection].

We report a case of splenic lymph node recurrence 7 years after a distal bile duct carcinoma. A 70s man underwent pylorus ring-preserving pancreaticod...

[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...

[Surgical Treatment for Extremely Elderly Patients Over 90 Years of Age with Colorectal Cancer].

We report 18 cases of colorectalcancer in patients aged over 90 years who received surgicaltreatment . Except for 2 patients who had StageⅣ colorectal...

[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...

[Study of Skip Metastasis to Lateral Lymph Nodes in Low Rectal Cancer].

We reviewed the clinical records of 302 patients with low rectal carcinoma to evaluate the effectiveness of lateral lymph node(LLN)dissection in cases...

[Effect of dihydroartemisinin on multidrug resistance of human oral squamous cell carcinoma cell line KBV200 by regulating ROS-MAPK pathway].

PURROSE: To investigate the effect of dihydroartemisinin (DHA) on multidrug resistance of human oral squamous cell carcinoma cell line KBV200 and to e...