A 90-year-old male underwent total gastrectomy for gastric cancer 10 months earlier. The cancer was pathologically diagnosed as Stage ⅢA. Preoperative serum CA19-9 level was as high as 1,326 U/mL, but quickly decreased after surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe patient was a woman in her 50's. She went to the hospitalfor epigastric discomfort. Numerous hypovascular tumors spreading almost to the entire liver were detected via abdominal CT.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA woman in her 60s visited our hospital because of frequent hypoglycemia and episodes of unconsciousness over the last 6 years. A 4 cm tumor was detected on the pancreatic tail using abdominal computed tomography and ultrasonography. An insulinoma was strongly suspected from the results of the fasting test and glucagon load test, and a distal pancreatectomy with splenectomy was performed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA woman in her 60s was admitted to our hospital with pain and induration of the navel. She was diagnosed with gastric cancer with metastasis to the navel and underwent total gastrectomy and navel extraction. Because disseminated nodules were detected in the Douglas pouch and sigmoid colon, sigmoidectomy was performed to prevent bowel obstruction.
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