Publications by authors named "Miyuki Sakemi"

Article Synopsis
  • Primary squamous cell carcinoma is extremely rare, making up only 0.04-0.07% of gastric cancer cases.
  • An 81-year-old man received chemoradiotherapy for gastric cancer, resulting in the disappearance of the tumor after a year, but a white area of tissue later appeared, which was initially normal.
  • Five years later, an elevated lesion in the same area was biopsied and found to be squamous cell carcinoma, which was treated through endoscopic submucosal dissection, suggesting the cancer may have developed from changes in the tissue due to previous radiation therapy.
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Angiosarcoma, one of the least common sarcomas, occurs most commonly in the skin and soft tissues, and postirradiation angiosarcoma of the greater omentum is extremely rare. Only one reported case of postirradiation angiosarcoma involved the greater omentum. We describe the case of 74-year-old female with a history of cervical cancer treated with abdominal irradiation 5 years before.

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A 78-year-old man presented with upper abdominal pain. He underwent an abdominal computed tomography scan which revealed irregularly shaped mass lesions in the mesentery and in the pancreatic head and body. The mass lesions were suspected to be pancreatic cancer with peritoneal dissemination and a surgical biopsy was performed.

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