Publications by authors named "Ryu Shiraishi"
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- The study investigates the effectiveness and safety of combining transcatheter arterial infusion chemotherapy with balloon-occluded radiofrequency ablation in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
- Ten out of twelve patients had successful treatment sessions, resulting in significant coagulation areas without local recurrence during a follow-up period averaging 33 months.
- The combination therapy proved to be both effective and safe, achieving high survival rates and no fatal complications, particularly for smaller tumors under 3 cm.
Background And Aim: Computer-based endoscopic simulators have been developed in recent years, and their usefulness has been reported. However, there is no blinded prospective randomized controlled study on esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) training using virtual reality simulators. The present study aimed to assess the effectiveness of a computer-based simulator for basic training in EGD.
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