Publications by authors named "Takaya Ishikawa"
Article Synopsis
- - Tongue diagnosis is a key method in Kampo medicine that uses the tongue's color and shape to assess a patient's health, but the impact of body position on tongue color hasn't been thoroughly studied.
- - A new system called TIAS was developed to analyze tongue color by capturing images of patients in both sitting and supine positions, leading to data from 18 individuals.
- - The study found that about 80% of patients' tongue colors remained the same between the two positions, suggesting that tongue diagnostics can be reliably performed regardless of body position.
The outcomes of hepatectomy alone for liver metastasis derived from non-cutaneous melanoma are insufficient, and the outcomes of systemic therapy alone are also insufficient, even since the development of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). We report the cases of three patients, in whom liver metastasis derived from non-cutaneous melanoma was treated with hepatectomy combined with ICI therapy, which was administered in various settings. One patient received ICI treatment for recurrent melanoma and survived 107 months after the first hepatectomy, one patient received both preoperative and adjuvant ICI treatment and has been disease-free for 27 months, and another patient received postoperative ICI treatment after reduction hepatectomy and has been alive with disease for 47 months.
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