Hemostatic Radiotherapy for Gastric Cancer: MRI as an Alternative to Endoscopy for Post-Treatment Evaluation.

Introduction: Pretreatment diagnosis by diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is useful to determine the effect of chemotherapy for gastric cancer. Here, we investigated the relationship among DW-MRI, endoscopy, and tumor markers.

Patients: Eight patients underwent hemostatic radiotherapy (RT) for gastric cancer in this prospective study from 2019 to 2021.

Ruptured mesenteric desmoid-type fibromatosis without emergency surgery: A rare case report.

Introduction: Desmoid-type fibromatosis (DF) is a rare tumor that develops in the limbs, abdominal wall, and abdominal cavity. It is accounting for less than 3% of soft-tissue sarcomas and less than 0.03% of all neoplasms.

Meckel's diverticulum adenocarcinoma accompanied with vitelline duct remnant and huge cystic lesion: A rare case report.

Introduction: Vitelline duct remnant (VDR) is a rare abnormality of the primitive yolk sac, and Meckel's diverticulum (MD) is the most common type. MD is a congenital small intestinal diverticulum that leaves the ileal side of vitelline duct, and MD adenocarcinoma is extremely rare.

Presentation Of Case: A 49 year-old-man with abdominal mass was diagnosed as a huge pelvic tumor.

Hemostatic radiotherapy for inoperable gastric cancer: a pilot study.

Objective: Standard treatment for progressive gastric cancer with bleeding includes hemostatic radiotherapy (RT); however, the only prospective study using a fixed dose with fractions during hemostatic RT did not introduce re-irradiation. Therefore, we determined the utility of RT including re-irradiation for gastric cancer.

Methods: In this study, 31 patients with gastric cancer and bleeding were treated with an initial dose of 20 Gy/5 fractions for the whole stomach and a salvage dose of 15 Gy/5 fractions for the partial stomach.

[Two Cases of Advanced Gastric Cancer Treated with Palliative Radiotherapy].

We report 2 cases of gastric cancer treated with palliative radiotherapy. Case 1: A 74-year-old man presented with gastric cancer. He had severe anemia caused by tumor bleeding and needed frequent blood transfusions.

Giant left-sided inguinoscrotal hernia containing the cecum and appendix (giant left-sided Amyand's hernia).

The present case involved a 62-year-old male with a large left-sided inguinoscrotal hernia. A CT scan and a clinical examination led to a diagnosis of a giant left-sided Amyand's hernia. The hernia was repaired using the ULTRAPRO Hernia System (UHS), and the patient exhibited an uneventful postoperative course.

Possible involvement of tumor-producing VEGF-A in the recruitment of lymphatic endothelial progenitor cells from bone marrow.

Lymphatic metastasis of human malignant adenocarcinomas is a critical determinant of prognosis. Lymphangiogenesis, the growth of lymphatic vessels, is closely involved in lymphatic metastasis. However, the mechanisms of tumor lymphangiogenesis are not clearly understood.

Human gastric cancer organizes neighboring lymphatic vessels via recruitment of bone marrow-derived lymphatic endothelial progenitor cells.

Background: Lymphatic metastasis is a critical determinant of prognosis in human gastrointestinal cancers. Studies suggest that lymphatic metastasis has been linked to lymphangiogenesis, the growth of lymphatic vessels, while the mechanisms of tumor lymphangiogenesis remain poorly characterized.

Methods: Human gastric cancer cells, MKN45, were implanted under the gastric submucosa of nude mice receiving green fluorescent protein-positive bone marrow (BM) transplants.

The stent-eluting drugs sirolimus and paclitaxel suppress healing of the endothelium by induction of autophagy.

Clinical studies have indicated that the stent-eluting drugs sirolimus and paclitaxel impact restenosis; however, it is still elusive how these drugs affect the vascular endothelium at the molecular and cellular levels. The purpose of this study was to determine whether sirolimus and paclitaxel induce molecular and cellular alterations in the vascular endothelium. Endothelial regrowth was assessed in human aortic endothelial cells and rat aortic endothelium.