Laparoscopic decompression of a stricture of the celiac artery caused by the median arcuate ligament in a gastric cancer patient: A case of report.

Stricture of the celiac artery caused by the median arcuate ligament induces abdominal ischemic symptoms and aneurysm near the pancreatic head. However, the need to treat asymptomatic patients is unclear. We safely performed surgical decompression of a stricture of the celiac artery by MAL in an asymptomatic patient at the same time as gastrectomy for gastric cancer.

Association of body temperature and antipyretic treatments with mortality of critically ill patients with and without sepsis: multi-centered prospective observational study.

Introduction: Fever is frequently observed in critically ill patients. An independent association of fever with increased mortality has been observed in non-neurological critically ill patients with mixed febrile etiology. The association of fever and antipyretics with mortality, however, may be different between infective and non-infective illness.

Multiple ileal diverticula causing an ileovesical fistula: report of a case.

We report a case of multiple ileal diverticula causing an ileovesical fistula in an 85-year-old man. The patient was admitted for investigation and treatment of intractable urethrocystitis, which he had suffered for 5 years. Cystography showed an ileovesical fistula, and contrast study of the small bowel revealed about 80 diverticula in the ileum.

[A case of completion pneumonectomy with carinal wedge resection after sleeve upper lobectomy for right lung cancer].

A 58-year-old man underwent sleeve upper lobectomy for squamous cell carcinoma of the right lung in April 1993. Eleven months after the operation, local recurrence at the bronchial suture line was detected by bronchoscopy. As the patient declined our proposal for performing reoperation, the recurrent tumor was treated with concurrent radiotherapy and chemotherapy, which resulted in only minimal response.