Publications by authors named "Sachio Urashima"

A 61-year-old male was referred to our hospital with a three-month history of persistent epigastralgia and right hypochondralgia. Initial examination revealed a fist-size mass at the epigastric fossa. Ultrasonography showed a hemangioma and a mosaic echoic lesion in the ventromedian with poor blood-flow signal and linear hyperechoic part inside, and a clear border to the surroundings.

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Objective: Many endoscopists have reported their own classifications of early gastric carcinoma (EGC) using magnifying narrow-band imaging (M-NBI). However, few reports on classifying the margin around lesions by M-NBI have been published. The aim of this study was to advocate the usefulness of the demarcation area classification for the diagnosis of EGC.

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This article focuses on the symptomatic and diagnostic problems of primary duodenal adenocarcinoma (PDA) by way of two case reports and a literature review. An 85-year-old woman with an adenocarcinoma in the 1st duodenal portion was offered palliative care. A 90-year-old woman with an adenocarcinoma in the 3rd duodenal portion was also offered palliative care.

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