Publications by authors named "Ko Kanesada"
An 82-year-old, male. He visited his local doctor with a chief complaint of dyspnea on exertion. Anemia was noted, and upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was performed, which revealed an ulcerative lesion in the gastric antrum.
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- - A female patient in her 60s had carcinoma in the cecum with metastases in the lungs, ovaries, and peritoneum, leading to symptoms like abdominal swelling and poor appetite due to ascites worsening after 18 months of chemotherapy.
- - After finding no malignant cells in her ascitic fluid, doctors suspected Pseudo-Meigs' syndrome and performed a bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy to alleviate her symptoms and improve her daily functioning.
- - Following the palliative surgery, her ascites resolved, she regained the ability to perform daily activities, and chemotherapy was resumed, with the patient remaining well 10 months later, emphasizing the need to consider Pseudo-Meigs' syndrome in similar cases.
A 67-year-old woman was admitted with melena. A colonoscopy detected a 50 mm submucosal tumor close to the dentate line. We diagnosed the rectal gastrointestinal stromal tumor by EUS-FNA.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 67-year-old man was admitted with melena. A colonoscopy detected advanced rectal cancer, and a CT scan revealed invasion of the seminal vesicle and prostate. Given the wild-type RAS status of the tumor, we administered 6 courses of XELOX plus cetuximab as neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
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