Analysis of prognosis and medical resource utilization in elderly patients with trauma: A retrospective cohort study in one trauma center.

Background: Trauma is consistently among the top ten causes of death worldwide. The aging population, constituting 15.21% of adults aged over 65 in Taiwan as of November 2019, has significantly impacted healthcare expenditures.

Blunt abdominal injury with rupture of giant hepatic cavernous hemangioma and laceration of the spleen.

A 41-year-old woman with blunt abdominal trauma due to a motor vehicle accident presented to our emergency department. The patient had a history of a giant hepatic cavernous hemangioma. Emergency exploratory laparotomy was performed for suspected intra-abdominal bleeding with abdominal compartment syndrome, and more than 4 liters of blood and blood clots were removed.

Primary thymic mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma with multiple thin walled lung cysts: case report and literature review.

Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma of the thymus is rare. We reported a case of a 37-year-old Chinese female with Sjögren's syndrome and hyperglobulinemia. She suffered from chronic cough for 3 weeks.

Intraoperative hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy as adjuvant chemotherapy for advanced gastric cancer patients with serosal invasion.

Background: To evaluate hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) as an adjuvant chemotherapy in advanced gastric cancer (AGC) patients with serosal invasion.

Methods: Patients who received radical surgery and palliative surgery between January 2002 and December 2010 were retrospectively examined. Patients were divided into two groups, namely, one group that underwent surgery and another group that underwent surgery with HIPEC.