Publications by authors named "Kiyotaka Yabuki"
The study aimed to verify the impact of our clinical strategy, which emphasizes patient-centered care, based on patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) results in hemodialysis patients. We developed our original PROM (comprising 20 items) to assess patients' symptom burden. To confirm the validity of our clinical pattern, we performed various analyses using PROM data.
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- A 53-year-old man was found to have multiple granular cell tumors, with one in the esophagus and seven in the stomach, leading to endoscopic resection and gastrectomy.
- Histological examination showed that the tumors had spindle or polyhedral cells with eosinophilic granules, and were mostly located in the submucosal layer, with some tumor cells seen in surrounding tissues.
- The tumors were diagnosed as benign due to low positivity for p53 and Ki-67 markers, despite granular cell tumors being rare in the digestive tract.
We report a 74-year-old man with triple synchronous cancers occurring in the gallbladder, common bile duct, and pancreas. The patient had consulted a nearby physician because of epigastralgia and icterus. On September 30, 1997, the patient was admitted to our department for further evaluation and treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn massive hemorrhage from acute gastric mucosal lesions, it is occasionally difficult to control the bleeding with nonsurgical therapy. We used the somatostatin analog, octreotide, which suppresses gastric and pancreatic function, to treat severe hemorrhagic erosive gastritis in a patient with acute pancreatitis. A 22-year-old man presented with epigastralgia and melena.
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