Archives of endocrinology and metabolism
Dec 1, 2017
OBJECTIVES: We sought to assess the relationship between stimulated thyroglobulin (sTg) before radioactive iodine therapy (RIT), and the dynamic risk stratification 1 year after treatment, and to establish the utility of the sTg as a predictor of res...
RATIONALE: Postoperative hemorrhage is a rare complication after laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LRP), with no case reports of bleeding from the external iliac artery in the literature.
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...
OBJECTIVE: National examination of open proctectomy (OP), laparoscopic proctectomy (LP), and robotic proctectomy (RP) in pathological outcomes and overall survival (OS).
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
This study objectives to investigate a range of Partin table and several machine learning methods for pathological stage prediction and assess them with respect to their predictive model performance based on Koreans data. The data was used SPCDB and ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
This paper presents a data-driven method to study the relationship of survival and clinical information of patients. The machine learning models were established to study the survival situation at the time of interest based on survival analysis. The ...
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...
BACKGROUND: Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is characterized by the upregulation of a large number of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). The aim of the study was to investigate the level of MMP-9 in the sera of HNSCC patients and its rel...
This thesis contains four studies all focusing on women with endometrial cancer undergoing robotic-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy (RALH). Women with endometrial cancer are typically elderly with co-morbidities. RALH is a relatively new treatment ...