Case Rep Gastroenterol
January 2024
Introduction: A stoma prolapse is easy to diagnose by visual examination, and it rarely incarcerates. Therefore, manual reduction is usually performed as soon as the diagnosis is made. In this report, we describe a case of stoma prolapse that could not be reduced manually and ruptured because an incarcerated parastomal hernia occurred in the stoma, mimicking stoma prolapse.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAsian J Psychiatr
August 2019
A 59-year-old man was diagnosed with advanced thoracic esophageal cancer.He underwent neoadjuvant chemotherapy with cisplatin(CDDP), 5-fluorouracil(5-FU)(CF)followed by transthoracic esophagectomy with three-field lymphadenectomy. Histopathological examination revealed that the tumor was poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma invading the adventitia with 6 regional lymph node metastases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: To elucidate relationships between disaster damage conditions and sleep duration among children who survived the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami.
Methods: The subjects comprised 12,524 children in kindergartens, elementary schools, and junior high schools in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. The Post Traumatic Stress Symptoms for Children 15 items (PTSSC-15), a self-completion questionnaire on traumatic symptoms, and a sleep questionnaire were distributed to them.
Background: To evaluate relationships between traumatic symptoms and environmental damage conditions among children who survived the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.
Methods: The subjects were 12,524 children in kindergartens, elementary schools, and junior high schools in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. The Post Traumatic Stress Symptoms for Children 15 items (PTSSC-15), a self-completion questionnaire on traumatic symptoms, was distributed to the children and a questionnaire regarding environmental damage conditions affecting the children was distributed to their teachers.