Publications by authors named "Hsiao-Dung Liu"
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- Spontaneous splenic rupture is a rare but serious issue that can occur in patients with hematologic cancers, despite the spleen commonly being affected in these conditions.
- A case was presented involving a 50-year-old healthy man who experienced sudden symptoms leading to a ruptured spleen, necessitating emergency surgery.
- The findings indicated he had hepatosplenic gammadelta T-cell lymphoma, a type of cancer not specifically classified by the World Health Organization.
Aim: Postoperative gastrointestinal-tract motility is normally delayed. Early feeding after colorectal surgery has been reported recently, but late feeding is common. Gastrografin not only enhances bowel peristalsis, but also decreases bowel-wall edema.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Refractory ascites is a serious complication for patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis. Saphenous-peritoneal shunting is a possible surgical treatment for its relief, but tends to lead to higher groin infections. The purpose of the present paper was to determine whether a modified procedure could resolve the problem and offer potential advantages over a peritoneo-venous shunt.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: Malignant gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are rare. Tumors larger than 10 cm tend to recur earlier: the larger the volume of the tumor, the worse the prognosis. We hypothesized that treatment with imatinib mesylate (Gleevec; STI-571), a c-kit tyrosine kinase inhibitor, as palliative therapy would prolong the survival of patients with recurrent giant malignant GISTs after resection.
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