[A patient with gastric small cell carcinoma who died from meningitis carcinomatosa after CDDP+CPT-11 chemotherapy with good response].

A-63-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of epigastralgia. On gastrointestinal fiberscopy, a complete obstruction of the pylorus was found, and endoscopic biopsy specimens from this region revealed gastric small cell carcinoma. CT scans showed the primary tumor at the pylorus with many regional lymph node metastases invading the pancreas.

Small intestinal intussusceptions due to the placement of a percutaneous endoscopic jejunostomy tube.

Percutaneous endoscopic jejunostomy (PEJ) has been developed and is considered to be a better method than percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy for preventing the occurrence of aspiration pneumonia. However, the incidence of other complications associated with this procedure is less clear. We herein report a rare case with a small intestinal intussusception due to a PEJ placement.

A systems approach reveals that the myogenesis genome network is regulated by the transcriptional repressor RP58.

We created a whole-mount in situ hybridization (WISH) database, termed EMBRYS, containing expression data of 1520 transcription factors and cofactors expressed in E9.5, E10.5, and E11.

[A case of gastric cancer associated with synchronous liver metastasis successfully treated with combination therapy of systemic and hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy].

A 56-year-old man who underwent distal gastrectomy at another hospital was admitted to our hospital because of advanced gastric cancer with synchronous liver metastasis. As we considered that the metastatic liver tumor was unresectable one, an intra-arterial catheter was inserted and weekly chemotherapy including methotrexate (MTX) (intra-venous) and 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) (intra-arterial) was started. The metastatic liver tumor was gradually reduced and resulted in partial response (PR) after 12 courses.