[Long-term survival of a patient with advanced colon cancer and para-aortic lymph node metastases treated with re-administration of high-dose molecular targeted agent bevacizumab].

A 49-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital because of epigastralgia and abdominal distension. She was diagnosed as advanced colon cancer with para-aortic and common iliac lymph node metastases, without liver and lung metastasis. Extended right hemicolectomy was performed to remove symptoms of stenosis.

Polaprezinc prevents ongoing thioacetamide-induced liver fibrosis in rats.

Aims: Cirrhotic patients commonly have a liver zinc deficiency, which may aggravate liver fibrosis due to the lack of antioxidative effects of zinc. This study examined the ability of polaprezinc, N-(3-aminopropionyl)-l-histidinato zinc, to prevent fibrosis in a rat model of thioacetamide (TAA)-induced hepatic fibrosis.

Main Methods: Liver cirrhosis was induced by orally administering TAA for 20 weeks.

"Tension-free" herniorrhaphy for groin hernias in patients with cirrhosis: report of four cases.

Tension-free herniorraphies were carried out using either the Mesh Plug repair (M-P) or Perfix plug technique (P-P) in four patients with cirrhosis. Three patients had a lateral inguinal hernia, and the other had bilateral inguinal and femoral hernias. The patients' ages ranged from 55 to 80 years.