Pudendal Nerve Identified on Sectioned Images of Female Cadaveric Pelvis.

Objective: To provide an anatomical atlas made of serially sectioned images of a female cadaver that clearly demonstrated the pudendal nerve.

Materials And Methods: The courses of the pudendal nerve, internal pudendal artery, and internal pudendal vein were observed on the sectioned images of a female cadaver. The spatial relationship between the nerve and blood vessels was interpreted.

Indication for endoscopic treatment of ulcerative early gastric cancer according to depth of ulcer and morphological change.

Background And Aim: This study was conducted to determine the clinicopathologic factors affecting the stage of ulcerative early gastric cancer (EGC), focusing on the relationships between cancer stage and degree of endoscopic ulcer depth and morphologic changes.

Methods: Medical records of 183 cases of ulcerative EGC who had received endoscopic examination two or more times with a minimum interval of one week, and who underwent either curative surgery or endoscopic treatment were retrospectively reviewed.

Results: Change in ulcer morphology at follow-up endoscopy was observed in 84 cases (45.

Durability of a sustained virological response in chronic hepatitis C patients treated with pegylated interferon alfa and ribavirin.

Background/aims: The reappearance rates of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA after a sustained virological response (SVR) have been reported to be 1-2%. We investigated the reappearance rate of HCV RNA after SVR in chronic hepatitis C (CHC) patients treated with pegylated interferon (PEG-IFN) and ribavirin.

Methods: In total, 292 CHC patients who achieved an SVR after PEG-IFN and ribavirin treatment were included.