Publications by authors named "Bungo Sakai"

Desmoid tumor is a rare tumor of the soft tissue. The frequency of occurrence is 2.4 to 4.

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A 69-year-old man was admitted for the severe anemia. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed type 3 gastric cancer (por1, HER2 negative)that spread from EG junction to the lesser curvature of lower gastric body. CT revealed LNs metastasis and the direct invasion to the diaphragm.

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A 43-year-old woman with about abdominal distension was referred to our hospital for a more detailed examination. Abdominal CT showed 27 cm-sized cystic lesion with the calcification along the partition wall and a nodular hyperplasia. We suspected pancreatic pseudocyst, primary retroperitoneal tumor and we performed tumorectomy.

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The patient is a 52-year-old woman who visited the general practitioner because of positive fecal occult blood test by medical examination. The patient underwent colonoscopy at the hospital, which revealed sigmoid colon cancer. Therefore, the patient was referred to our hospital for surgery.

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A 74-year-old man with no chronic liver disease was admitted for an incidental liver tumor by computed tomography. Serological examinations for hepatitis B and C virus were negative and tumor markers, including carcinoembryonic antigen, α-fetoprotein, carbohydrate antigen 19-9, and des-gamma-carboxy prothrombin, were within the normal range. The contrast- enhanced magnetic resonance imaging revealed that the 26 mm in diameter patchy tumor occupied the S7 in the liver.

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Article Synopsis
  • - A female patient in her 60s had carcinoma in the cecum with metastases in the lungs, ovaries, and peritoneum, leading to symptoms like abdominal swelling and poor appetite due to ascites worsening after 18 months of chemotherapy.
  • - After finding no malignant cells in her ascitic fluid, doctors suspected Pseudo-Meigs' syndrome and performed a bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy to alleviate her symptoms and improve her daily functioning.
  • - Following the palliative surgery, her ascites resolved, she regained the ability to perform daily activities, and chemotherapy was resumed, with the patient remaining well 10 months later, emphasizing the need to consider Pseudo-Meigs' syndrome in similar cases.
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