Hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with chronic kidney disease.

Aim: To investigate outcomes of hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Methods: Four hundred and forty patients referred between 2000 and 2002 for management of HCCs were categorized according to their CKD stage, i.e.

Association between the metabolic syndrome and its components with falls in community-dwelling older adults.

Background: The metabolic syndrome and falls are both serious and common health problems in older adults. However, little is known about whether the metabolic syndrome contributes to falls. We investigated the relationship between the metabolic syndrome and its components with falls in community-dwelling older adults.

Standard radical gastrectomy in octogenarians and nonagenarians with gastric cancer: are short-term surgical results and long-term survival substantial?

Background: The high incidence of gastric cancer among the octogenarians and nonagenarians (oldest old; age ≥ 80 years) is emerging as an important management issue. Herein, we report both the short-term outcomes and long-term survival results of standard radical gastrectomy in this group of patients.

Methods: This was a retrospective review of 164 oldest old patients (older group) and 2,258 younger patients (age <80 years; younger group) with gastric cancer who underwent curative resection between January 1994 and December 2006.

Associated factors for falls among the community-dwelling older people assessed by annual geriatric health examinations.

Background: Falls are very common among the older people. Nearly one-third older people living in a community fall each year. However, few studies have examined factors associated with falls in a community-dwelling population of older Taiwanese adults.

Sonic hedgehog signaling pathway in pancreatic cystic neoplasms and ductal adenocarcinoma.

Objectives: Hedgehog (Hh) signaling is an important mediator of tumorigenesis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PA). It is intriguing to explore whether Hh signaling is also involved in pancreatic cystic neoplasms, which are phenotypically different from PA.

Methods: Patients with solid and pseudopapillary tumor (SPT; n = 12), mucinous cystic neoplasm (MCN; n = 18), intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN; n = 18), and PA (n = 20) were studied.

Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the trachea: a report of seven cases and literature review.

Background: Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) of the trachea is rare. The clinical manifestations, natural history, and responses to therapy differ from those of other malignant tracheal tumors.

Method: In this retrospective study, we examined pathological records of patients in the Department of Pathology at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital from 1990 through 2002.

Aeromonas hydrophila bacteremia presenting as non-traumatic acute osteomyelitis in a cirrhotic patient.

Aeromonas hydrophila is a low-virulence gram-negative bacillus. It has never been reported as a pathogen of non-traumatic acute osteomyelitis in a cirrhotic patient. Herein, we reported on a case of decompensated liver cirrhosis with Aeromonas hydrophila infection presenting as acute gastroenteritis and non-traumatic acute osteomyelitis.