Quality of life in disease-free gastric adenocarcinoma survivors: impacts of clinical stages and reconstructive surgical procedures.

Aim: To investigate health-related quality of life data of disease-free gastric adenocarcinoma survivors, with special emphasis on the roles of clinical stages and reconstructive surgical procedures.

Methods: We performed a cross-sectional study in 51 disease-free gastric adenocarcinoma patients. The patients had been followed for at least 6 (median 17, range from 6 months to 2 years) months after initial radical surgery.

MRI features of an infected cephalhaematoma in a neonate.

Bacterial infection of a cephalhaematoma is rare and has been associated with needle aspiration of the haematoma, placement of scalp electrodes and systemic sepsis. Clinical diagnosis of infected cephalhaematoma is difficult without obvious evidence of local infection. The role of imaging in differentiating infected from non-infected cephalhaematoma has not been clearly established.

Chimney sublaminar decompression for degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis.

Object: The authors evaluated the efficacy and safety of so-called chimney sublaminar decompression, a new technique to decompress the degenerative stenotic lumbar spinal canal without stripping of the paravertebral muscles.

Methods: Eighteen patients (nine men and nine women whose mean age was 67 years) with symptoms of claudication were selected to undergo chimney sublaminar decompression. The duration of symptoms was greater than 6 months in 17 patients.

Third ventricle immature teratoma: a case report.

We present the case of a 1-year-old girl with persistent vomiting who was found to have a disproportionately large immature teratoma in the third ventricle. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated a heterogeneous intracranial mass in the third ventricle, with a compressed left cerebral hemisphere and hydrocephalus. Bifrontal craniotomy via a transchiasmatic approach achieved total resection of the tumor.

Exercise-induced acute spinal subdural hematoma: a case report.

A 63-year-old woman developed acute back pain and sciatica after playing hula-hoop. Urinary incontinence was also noted. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed acute thoracolumbar spinal subdural hematoma.