Nakamura, Hajime Sekiguchi, Hiroyuki Akiyama, Seiji Hamada, Hirofumi Fujiwara, Michitaka Kasai, Yasushi Ito, Katsuki Nakao, Akimasa
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Esophageal cancer is associated with the poorest prognosis among the digestive tract cancers, and chemotherapy is the treatment of choice for many patients. In this study, we experimentally introduced an Escherichia coli-derived uracil phosphoribosyltransferase (UPRT) gene to cultured esophageal cancer cell lines to potentiate the antitumor effects...
Inagawa, Satoshi Hori, Masao Shimazaki, Jiro Matsumoto, Shigemi Ishii, Hiroshi Itabashi, Masayuki Adachi, Shinya Kawamoto, Toru Fukao, Katashi
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Some patients with gastrointestinal schwannoma (GIS) have been previously reported in the literature. However, GIS of the colon is quite rare. In addition, it is sometimes difficult to differentiate neurogenic tumors from other soft tissue tumors. We herein describe two cases of schwannoma of the colon, while also reviewing the relevant Japanese li...
Kaneda, Yoshikazu Fujita, Nobuhiro Ueda, Kazuhiro Saeki, Kouichi Sakano, Hisashi Sudo, Manabu Tanaka, Toshiki Matsuoka, Takahisa Hayashi, Masatarou Zempo, Nobuya
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A 71-year-old man with primary lung cancer associated with Brugada syndrome was safely oper-ated on following the placement of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). During examinations for Brugada syndrome, a tumor in the apicoposterior segment of the left lung was incidentally detected by chest computed tomography. Following the implant...
Usui, Yoshiyuki Sasaki, Tomoko Kimura, Kentaro Tanaka, Noriyoshi Kotani, Yasuhiro Saisho, Shinsuke Takabatake, Daisuke Nomura, Shuichi
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Endoscopic thyroid and parathyroid surgery have now become feasible procedures, but the working space provided by the gasless technique is more limited than that of the CO2 insufflation technique. Gasless endoscopic surgery was performed in 20 patients with thyroid or parathyroid tumors. A newly designed retractor was used. Gasless endoscopic surge...
Kumagai, Youichi Kawano, Tatsuyuki Nakajima, Yasuaki Nagai, Kagami Inoue, Haruhiro Nara, Satoshi Iwai, Takehisa
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This study was conducted to examine the characteristics of esophageal cancers with primary synchronous or metachronous cancer in another organ. We retrospectively evaluated 744 patients who underwent esophagectomy for esophageal cancers between 1985 and 1998. The patients were divided into two groups according to whether they had multiple primary c...
Kihara, Minoru Yokomise, Hiroyasu Irie, Akemi Kobayashi, Shoji Kushida, Yoshio Yamauchi, Akira
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Adenomyoepithelioma of the breast is a rare lesion, and has a bicellular pattern of epithelial and myoepithelial cells which are regularly distributed in the tubular structures based on the histologic and ultrastructural features. It is thought to be a benign or a low-grade malignant disease. We herein describe a case of malignant adenomyoepithelio...
Sasaki, Hidefumi Nonaka, Masaru Fujii, Yoshitaka Yamakawa, Yosuke Fukai, Ichiro Kiriyama, Masanobu Sasaki, Makoto
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Prothymosin-α (PTα) is known to play a role in cell proliferation, and the PTα mRNA level may reflect the degree of proliferation of tumor cells. It has been reported that PTα mRNA levels are higher in human colon and liver cancer tissues than in the adjacent normal tissues. We examined the mRNA levels of PTα and c-myc in 20 lung cancers, using Bas...
Balik, Ahmet A. Çelebi, Fehmi Başoğlu, Mahmut Ören, Durkaya Yildirgan, Ilhan Selçuk Atamanalp, S.
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Twenty-seven patients who were treated surgically because of extrahepatic abdominal hydatid disease between 1981 and 1999 were retrospectively reviewed. Nineteen patients had coexistent hepatic cysts while 8 patients had only peritoneal cysts. The cysts were located in the spleen, pancreas, adrenal gland, mesentery of the intestines, ovaries, retro...
Indinnimeo, Marileda Cicchini, Claudia Stazi, Alessandro Ghini, Christian Laghi, Andrea Memeo, Lorenzo Iannaccone, Riccardo Teneriello, Francesco Luigi Mingazzini, Pietro Luigi
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We describe herein the case of a heterotopic pancreas that caused stenosis in the second portion of the duodenum. A 46-year-old man presented with upper abdominal pain and a 12-month history of intermittent vomiting. There was no history of melena, hematochezia, hematemesis, clay-colored stools, jaundice, or hepatitis and he did not describe any fo...
Tagaya, Nobumi Aoki, Hiroshi Mikami, Hidetoshi Kogure, Hiroaki Kubota, Keiichi
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A successful laparoscopic hernia repair requires complete covering of the hernia defect, adequate tension of the prosthesis, and secure stapling with a stapler. We describe herein our technique of performing laparoscopic hernia repair using a needlescopic instrument which results in minimal damage to the abdominal wall and has significant cosmetic ...
