Publications by authors named "K Kawakura"

Arteriovenous malformation (AVM) of the pancreas is uncommon in the gastrointestinal tract. We present a case of AVM of the pancreatic head in a 59-year-old male. He was admitted to a hospital with hematemesis and tarry stool and referred to our hospital in March 2014 on the diagnosis of pancreatic artery pseudoaneurysm.

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A 71-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with acute myocardial infarction and cardiac tamponade. After pericardial drainage, his hemodynamics was improved. Because more than 3 days had been passed after the onset of myocardial infarction and he had severe renal dysfunction, emergent coronary angiography (CAG) was not performed.

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A novel repeated sequence specific to male cattle was identified and named S4. S4 is a highly repetitive sequence and is a 1.5 kb repeating unit that contains various internal repeated sequences.

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Background: This study was performed to review retrospectively the clinical course of chronic rectal bleeding as a complication of external beam radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer and to analyze the relationship between technical parameters of radiation therapy and the complications.

Methods: Seventy-one patients with stages A2, B and C were treated with local-field radiotherapy (total dose 52.5-66 Gy, daily dose 2.

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A patient with a müllerian duct cyst, which caused acute renal failure secondary to urinary retention, is reported. The case was treated successfully by transurethral unroofing of the cyst.

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