The Effectiveness of Endovenous Thermal Ablation for the Knee Symptoms of the Osteoarthritis with Varicose Veins.

Patients with varicose veins of the lower extremities with osteoarthritis of the knee often experience improvement in knee joint symptoms after endovascular treatment. We considered that it was important to decide the operation indication of lower extremity varices, to know the correlation between the two diseases in the treatment of varicose veins. To investigate the postoperative improvement of knee symptoms related to varicose veins with knee osteoarthritis, we conducted a questionnaire survey for a total of 12 months, from December 2014 to May 2015 and from October 2018 to March 2019.

[Clinicopathological characteristics of ten cases of advanced gastric carcinoma after S-1 combined with cisplatin administered as neoadjuvant chemotherapy].

Objective: Although neoadjuvant chemotherapy(NAC)has been recognized as an important option for improving the clinical outcome of patients with advanced gastric carcinoma, convincing evidence that it prolongs life and brings about a good prognosis are both lacking. We retrospectively evaluated the efficacy and safety of NAC in ten patients with advanced gastric cancer.

Methods: A total of ten patients with advanced gastric cancer, who received NAC with the combination of S-1 and cisplatin in our hospital from April 2008 to March 2010, were retrospectively investigated.

[Two cases of metastatic colorectal cancer in wild-type K-RAS effectively treated by panitumumab].

Case 1 was a 58-year-old woman diagnosed with unresectable liver metastases from advanced rectal cancer. We performed laparoscopic low anterior resection for sigmoid cancer. As the first-line treatment, FOLFOX+bevacizumab(BV)was applied for 16 courses.

[A case of liver metastases of sigmoid colon cancer treated effectively by oral UFT/LV].

The patient was a 77-year-old woman with multiple liver metastases of sigmoid colon cancer. She underwent low anterior resection for sigmoid colon cancer. After surgery, she selected oral administration of UFT and LV for liver metastases and multiple lymph node metastases.

Mycotic aneurysm of the left anterior descending coronary artery after coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

Mycotic aneurysms of the coronary artery are extremely uncommon and can be very difficult to diagnose. We report a unique case of a mycotic aneurysm of the left anterior descending coronary artery with a history of two-vessel off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery 9 months previously. The aneurysmectomy was successful.

Anterior cruciate reconstruction with bioactive Leeds-Keio ligament (LKII): preliminary report.

The scaffold type Leeds-Keio artificial ligament (LK) for ligament reconstruction of the knee provides sufficient strength to require minimal sacrifice of autogenous tissue. This implant works not only as prosthesis but also as scaffold onto which natural tissue grows from the synovium. LK has been in clinical use for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction since 1982, although the operative procedure has been modified and has undergone significant development since that time.