All three patients were men in their 70s. All cases were solitary onset and the chief complaint was gait disturbance. All patients had miosis and limb and trunk ataxia, MMSE score was declined in two patients, and FAB score was declined in all patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe prognosis of liver metastasis from gastric cancer, which often exhibits incurable factors, is dismal, and no effective therapy exists. We report a case of giant liver metastasis from gastric cancer after surgery, for which transcatheter arterial embolism and chemotherapy(G-SOX)made it possible to perform hepatic resection. The patient was a 78-year-old woman who underwent distal gastrectomy combined with D2 lymphadenectomy at our department in August 2014.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe patient was a 66-year-old male with extremely advanced gastric cancer type 3 and diagnosed with adenocarcinoma by endoscopic biopsies specimens. Combined chemotherapy of TS-1, CDDP and docetaxel was prescribed in order for tumor reduction and downstaging. TS-1 (80 mg/m(2)) was administered 28 days followed by 14 days rest as one course.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMalignant mixed tumors of salivary glands are classified as three types:carcinoma arising in a pleomorphic adenoma, the most common; benign metastasizing pleomorphic adenoma; and carcinosarcoma (true malignant mixed tumor), which is very rare [Ann. Otol. Rhinol.
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