PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Despite increasing use of robotic surgery for radical prostatectomy, the benefit of robotic over open approach on different postoperative outcomes is still under debate. The present review aimed to provide a framework on the latest...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2019
We reviewed the clinical records of 302 patients with low rectal carcinoma to evaluate the effectiveness of lateral lymph node(LLN)dissection in cases of skip metastases to the LLN. Patients were divided into 4 groups according to nodal status: group...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2019
No large clinical trials have been conducted to prove the efficacy of peritoneal dissemination resection for colorectal cancer, and no evidence has shown the usefulness of resection for metachronous peritoneal dissemination. An elderly woman in her 7...
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
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
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.
PURPOSE: Electronic medical records (EMRs) and population-based cancer registries contain information on cancer outcomes and treatment, yet rarely capture information on the timing of metastatic cancer recurrence, which is essential to understand can...
Clinical and translational gastroenterology
Oct 1, 2019
INTRODUCTION: Adverse histopathological status (AHS) decreases outcomes of gastric cancer (GC). With the lack of a single factor with great reliability to preoperatively predict AHS, we developed a computational approach by integrating large-scale im...
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