Surgical oncology clinics of North America
Jul 1, 2016
Robotic-assisted pulmonary lobectomy can be considered for patients able to tolerate conventional lobectomy. Contraindications to resection via thoracotomy apply to patients undergoing robotic lobectomy. Team training, familiarity with equipment, tro...
PURPOSE: Automated detection of solitary pulmonary nodules using positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) images shows good sensitivity; however, it is difficult to detect nodules in contact with normal organs, and additional e...
Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP
Jan 1, 2016
BACKGROUND: Lung cancer remains one of the most common cancers in the world, both in terms of new cases (about 13% of total per year) and deaths (nearly one cancer death in five), because of the high case fatality. Errors in lung cancer type or malig...
A 61-year-old man had experienced an irritating cough for 1 month. He received a diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma by bronchoscopy. Computed tomography showed a mass in the left hilum and mediastinal lymph node enlargement. After two cycles of neoadju...
The objective of this study was to analyze the predictive significance of different prognostic factors associated with recurrence and metastasis after the radical resection in patients with hepatolithiasis complicated by intrahepatic cholangiocarcino...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2015
A 77 year-old man with asymptomatic microscopic hematuria underwent a cystoscopic examination, which identified a broad-based papillary tumor at the cervix of the bladder. Adenocarcinoma was detected in the biopsy specimen. MRI and CT examination sho...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2015
This case involves a 76 year-old woman. A sigmoidectomy was performed for sigmoid colon cancer in August 2006. On histological examination, the cancer was shown to be tub2>tub1>por2, pSE, int, INF b, ly2, v0, pN0, p1 (Douglas), Stage Ⅳ. After surgery...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2015
The patient was a 76-year-old woman who underwent laparoscopic-assisted low anterior resection for rectal cancer. According to the Japanese classification of colorectal carcinoma (8th Edition), the tumor was tub1, ly0, v0, and pStage Ⅰ (pT1bN0M0), Cu...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2015
Here, we report the use of trans-arterial chemoembolization for primary lung cancer. The patient was a 56-year-old woman with refractory Stage Ⅳ non-small cell lung cancer who had been treated with repeated systemic chemotherapy. The primary lesion i...
Rinsho byori. The Japanese journal of clinical pathology
Oct 1, 2015
BACKGROUND: In this era of precision medicine, monitoring patients requires not only real time but also longitudinal sequence of samples at various time points. Based on this background, we focused on conditioned circumstances on fixation and storage...
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