Pancreatic Diseases

An Unusual Presentation of Parathyroid Adenoma in an Adolescent: Calcific Achilles Tendinitis.

Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) in children and adolescents is a rare condition. PHPT is usually sporadic and caused by parathyroid adenoma. Patients may present with bone pain, proximal myopathy, bony deformities, fractures, renal calculi, mass on the neck, or acute pancreatitis. A sixteen-year-old boy presented to our outpatient clinic with difficulty in walking due to swelling of both ankles...

[Intervention Effect of Modified Dachengqi Decoction on Intestinal Mucosal Barrier of Severe Acute Pancreatitis Model Rats].

OBJECTIVE: To study the effect of Modified Dachengqi Decoction (MDD) as whole course therapy on mediators of inflammation in severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) model rats, and to compare interventional advantages over intestinal mucosal barrier (IMB) of SAP rats between whole course therapy of MDD and early stage therapy of MDD.

[Enhancement of Coprinus cinereus peroxidase in Pichia pastoris by co-expression chaperone PDI and Ero1].

The 1,095 bp gene encoding peroxidase from Coprinus cinereus was synthesized and integrated into the genome of Pichia pastoris with a highly inducible...

[The Safety and Feasibility of Conversion Surgery for Initially Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer].

BACKGROUND: By remarkable progress of chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer, we sometimes achieve resection of initially unresectable pancreatic cancer a...

[R0 Resection by Distal Pancreatectomy with En Bloc Celiac Axis Resection after Down-Staging by FOLFIRINOX Therapy in a Case of Pancreas Cancer--Report of a Case].

The patient, a 55-year-old man, was diagnosed elsewhere as having cancer of the tail of the pancreas and was referred to our hospital. Abdominal compu...

[Safety and Feasibility of the Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforcement in Distal Pancreatic Resections].

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and feasibility of the bioabsorbable staple line reinforcement in distal pancreatic resectio...

Minimally Invasive Distal Pancreatectomy: A Single-Center Analysis of Outcome With Experience and Systematic Review of the Literature.

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study is to analyze the learning curve for laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy (LDP) in our series and review the literatur...

[HPLC Specific Fingerprint of Alcohol Extract of Andrographis paniculata].

OBJECTIVE: To establish the specific fingerprint of alcohol extract of Andrographis paniculata by HPLC.

Assessment of quality outcomes for robotic pancreaticoduodenectomy: identification of the learning curve.

IMPORTANCE: Quality assessment is an important instrument to ensure optimal surgical outcomes, particularly during the adoption of new surgical techno...

Successful Robotic Cystogastrostomy after Failed Endoscopic Drainage for Infected Pancreatic Fluid Collection Post Distal Pancreatectomy.

We are presenting the management of an infected pancreatic fluid collection that occurred six months after distal pancreatectomy in the setting of a r...

Identification of Patients with Family History of Pancreatic Cancer--Investigation of an NLP System Portability.

In this study we have developed a rule-based natural language processing (NLP) system to identify patients with family history of pancreatic cancer. T...

[Robot-assisted pancreatoduodenectomy].

AIM: To compare the results of robot-assisted and conventional techniques of pancreatoduodenectomy.

Medicinal Mushroom Cracked-Cap Polypore, Phellinus rimosus (Higher Basidiomycetes) Attenuates Acute Ethanol-Induced Lipid Peroxidation in Mice.

Alcohol abuse and alcoholism remain one of the major health issues worldwide, especially in developing countries. The protective effect of Phellinus r...