Case 1: A 59-year-old man was diagnosed with type 3 gastric cancer cStage Ⅲ(MU, Gre, tub2>por, cT4aN2M0)induced by gastric perforation. The first surgery involving resection of the lesser curvature of stomach lymph node was judged to be difficult, and eventually exploratory laparotomy was performed. He received 3 courses of chemotherapy using S-1 plus oxaliplatin(SOX)(S-1 120mg/m2/day, day 1-14, oxaliplatin 100 mg/m2, day 1, followed by 7 days of rest).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 78-year-old woman underwent right S6 segmentectomy and upper lobe partial resection for adenocarcinoma. About 11 months after the operation, she was diagnosed as having empyema with bronchopleural fistula and open thoracotomy was performed. From the following day, active hemorrhage from the pulmonary artery into the thoracic cavity(500~800 ml) repeated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA woman in her late sixties had an operation for ascending colon cancer 15 months before her current admission. The pathological finding was T3(mod. SE), N0, H0, P3, M0, Stage IV.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis report describes an unusual case of mammary intraductal papillomas coexistent with sentinel lymph node papilloma. A 47-year-old Japanese female underwent 5 needle manipulations and 2 surgical biopsies for recurring papillomas in the right breast over 5 years before having a simple mastectomy. During the mastectomy, the ipsilateral sentinel node was found to be extensively occupied by completely benign papilloma that measured 6 mm in its greatest dimension.
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