Publications by authors named "Akira Kurogochi"
The patient was a 61-year-old woman who presented to the hospital with the chief complaints of anemia and thrombocytopenia. There was a mass in her left breast, and a needle biopsy with pathology revealed invasive ductal carcinoma, which was HR-positive and HER2-negative. A PET scan revealed multiple bone metastases, which were confirmed on bone marrow biopsy, leading to the diagnosis of bone marrow carcinomatosis.
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- Pyogenic granuloma (PG) is a rare, polyp-like tumor found in the gastrointestinal tract, especially the small intestine, with limited documented cases.
- A 58-year-old man experienced fatigue and severe anemia; imaging revealed a hypervascular tumor in the small bowel, and a polypoid lesion was confirmed through double-balloon endoscopy.
- Following laparoscopic resection, the tumor was identified as PG, and the patient's anemia improved significantly after surgery, eliminating the need for iron supplements.
We report a 71-year-old man who had undergone pylorus-preserving pancreatoduodenectomy (PPPD) using PPPD-IV reconstruction for cholangiocarcinoma. For 6 years thereafter, he had suffered recurrent cholangitis, and also a right liver abscess (S5/8), which required percutaneous drainage at 9 years after PPPD. At 16 years after PPPD, he had been admitted to the other hospital because of acute purulent cholangitis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRational treatment for neoplasms of the duodenal papilla (NDPs) is still controversial, especially for early stage lesions. Total papillectomies are indicated in patients expected to have adenomas, adenocarcinoma in an adenoma, or mucosal adenocarcinomas with no lymph node metastases. However, the preoperative pathological evaluation of NDPs is still challenging and often inaccurate, mainly because of the complicated anatomical structures involved and the possibility of an adenocarcinoma in an adenoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContext: Primary pancreatic lymphoma is a rare form of extranodal lymphoma originating in the pancreas. The present report describes a case of follicular lymphoma of the pancreas with unique CT and MRI findings.
Case Report: A 58-year-old male complained of sudden abdominal pain, and routine ultrasonography detected an 8 cm hypoechoic tumor in the head of the pancreas.