Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association
Oct 1, 2018
BACKGROUND: The presence of metastatic lymph nodes is a prognostic indicator for patients with thyroid carcinomas and is an important determinant of clinical decision making. However, evaluating neck lymph nodes requires experience and is labor- and ...
OBJECTIVE: Prophylactic central lymph node dissection(CLND) is a controversial issue in papillary thyroid microcarcinoma( PTMC) patients without lymphatic metastasis. Artificial neural network(ANN) has been proposed as an alternative statistical tech...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2017
We report the case of a 79-year-old man, with gastric cancer detected on upper gastrointestinal endoscopic examination performed by a nearby medical clinic, and referred to our hospital, in April 201X. He was diagnosed with gastric cancer(ML, less, 0...
Journal of computer assisted tomography
Jan 1, 2017
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to diagnose lymph node metastasis of esophageal cancer by support vector machines model based on computed tomography.
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2016
A 70-year-old man underwent endoscopic submucosal dissection(ESD)for 2 early-stage gastric cancers in 2009 and 2014, respectively. Both were pathologically diagnosed after curative resection. In 2015, we detected swollen lymph nodes in the lesser cur...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2016
We report a case of a radical resection of cT3a gallbladder cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy(NAC). A 68-year-old man was referred to our hospital with a chief complaint of right hypochondralgia.Imaging findings were consistent with acute cholecy...
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