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...
Clinical and translational gastroenterology
May 22, 2019
OBJECTIVES: Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs) are precursor lesions of pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a mathematical concept whose implementation automates learning and recognizing data patterns. The aim of ...
Characterization of individual cell types is fundamental to the study of multicellular samples. Single-cell RNAseq techniques, which allow high-throughput expression profiling of individual cells, have significantly advanced our ability of this task....
This review critically analyzes how machine learning is being used to support clinical decision-making in the management of potentially resectable pancreatic cancer. Following PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses...
Tumor growth is associated with cell invasion and mass-effect, which are traditionally formulated by mathematical models, namely reaction-diffusion equations and biomechanics. Such models can be personalized based on clinical measurements to build th...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2017
A 38-year-old male presented to our hospital with complaint of vomiting. A CT demonstrated a mass sized 42mm in the pancreatic head invading to the duodenum and a liver mass sized 15mm in the medial segment. Biopsy revealed adenocarcinoma. Due to liv...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2016
A 52-year-old man was initially diagnosed with an unresectable acinar cell carcinoma of the pancreas with liver metastasis and involvement of the superior mesenteric artery. After 5 courses of systemic chemotherapy(gemcitabine and S-1), the size of t...