Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2019
We report a case of splenic lymph node recurrence 7 years after a distal bile duct carcinoma. A 70s man underwent pylorus ring-preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy for distal bile duct carcinoma in 20XX. The pathological diagnosis was T2N0M0, Stage Ⅱ(J...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2019
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 liver dysfunction(T-Bil 7.6mg/dL)with marked elevation of tumor markers(CEA 727.9 ng/mL). Breast tum...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2019
BACKGROUND: Surgical site infections(SSIs)occur at a high frequency in patients after rectal cancer surgery and are readily aggravated. Therefore, prophylactic measures for infections based on the evaluation of the patient's perioperative risk are ve...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2019
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 scheduled5 years of follow-up after colorectal surgery hadbeen finished, but she kept undergoing en...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2019
After approximately 2.5 years of chemotherapy at the referred hospital, a 69-year-old man with double colon cancer and unresectable liver metastases(H3)sought consultation. A total of 8 liver metastases were deemed resectable; however, the disease wa...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2019
The patient was a 60-year-old man who underwent distal gastrectomy for gastric cancer. The pathological diagnosis was Stage ⅡB. He received adjuvant chemotherapy(capecitabine plus oxaliplatin: CapeOX)for 6months and the postoperative course was uneve...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2019
BACKGROUND: Due to an aging society, patients with gastric cancer are also getting older. Although total gastrectomy should be avoided for elderly patients, laparoscopic subtotal gastrectomy(LSTG)is a technically demanding procedure. Here, we present...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2019
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 hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC)in S8 of the liver. Laparoscopic partial hepatectomy was performed. Th...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2019
AIM: This study aimed to determine surgical outcomes in patients with gynecological cancers for whom surgery was performed by gynecologists and digestive surgeons.
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2019
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 CA19-9 were elevated, at 39.47 ng/mL and 918.5 U/mL, respectively. She was diagnosed with peritonitis wit...