Perioperative fluid dynamics evaluated by bioelectrical impedance analysis predict infectious surgical complications after esophagectomy.

Background: Transthoracic esophagectomy, among the most invasive surgeries, is highly associated with postoperative infectious complications which adversely affect postoperative management including fluid dynamics. The aim of the study is to evaluate the utility of perioperative bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) measurements for the patients after transthoracic esophagectomy.

Method: Multi-frequency BIA measurements were conducted in 24 patients undergoing transthoracic esophagectomy preoperatively, at 1 h after surgery, and twice daily for the following 7 days.

Relationships among body composition, muscle strength, and sarcopenia in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients.

Purpose: Relationships among body composition indices assessed by various modalities remain to be addressed in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), in whom being underweight is more strikingly prevalent than in those with other malignancies. We investigated the relationships of body composition parameters with the sarcopenia prevalence of ESCC patients.

Methods: In this prospective study, we analyzed preoperative data obtained from 75 ESCC patients undergoing esophagectomy.

Non-linear association between long-term outcome and preoperative neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in patients undergoing curative resection for gastric cancer: a retrospective analysis of 1335 cases in a tetrachotomous manner.

Objective: Although the prognostic utility of the pretreatment neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) has been widely reported for gastric cancer and several other malignancies, the optimal patient stratification methodologies for such analyses have yet to be established. We aimed to examine the predictive value of preoperative NLR in patients with operable gastric cancer, and to elucidate whether or not the relationship between long-term outcome and pretreatment NLR is monotonically linear.

Methods: Preoperative data from 1335 patients who underwent curative surgery for gastric cancer were retrospectively evaluated.

A surgical case of radiotherapy induced esophageal perforation accompanying pyogenic spondylodiscitis: a case report.

Background: Stereotactic body radiotherapy has been a treatment choice for lung cancer, especially in medically inoperable patients. However, the acute and late toxicity to adjacent organs have been reported as an uncommon but severe adverse effect.

Case Presentation: A 65-year-old male was presented with his back pain and pyrexia.

Radical esophagectomy for a 92-year-old woman with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor-producing esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a case report.

Background: Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF)-producing esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) has been considered to have a poor prognosis. We successfully treated a case of G-CSF-producing ESCC in a 92-year-old woman.

Case Presentation: A 92-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with the complaints of choking while swallowing and dysphagia.

[A Case of Effective Whole-Brain Irradiation and Lapatinib/Capecitabine Combination Therapy for HER2-Positive Breast Cancer with Multiple Brain Metastases].

We report the case of a 48-year-old female patient with HER2-positive and hormone receptor-negative breast cancer with multiple liver metastases. She underwent 6 cycles of FEC followed by docetaxel plus trastuzumab (TZB), resulting in a clinical complete response. After 15 cycles of a TZB-containing regimen, she complained of dizziness and nausea, and imaging examinations revealed multiple brain metastases.