Publications by authors named "Teraoka Yoshifumi"
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- The study investigates how residual pneumoperitoneum (remaining air in the abdominal cavity) after laparoscopic colorectal surgery affects patient recovery.
- It analyzes data from 201 Japanese patients, comparing those with and without anastomotic failure, and further categorizing non-anastomotic failure patients by the presence of residual pneumoperitoneum.
- Key findings indicate that patients with residual pneumoperitoneum tend to have lower body mass index (BMI) and subcutaneous fat area (SFA), and highlight inflammatory markers as potential indicators for complications.
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- A 69-year-old woman with advanced anal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) experienced symptoms like bloody stool and a palpable mass, leading to a diagnosis of cStage IIIA SCC after exhaustive testing and a biopsy.
- Despite undergoing chemoradiotherapy, her tumor persisted, prompting a salvage surgery which later revealed poorly differentiated SCC.
- Post-surgery, complications arose as imaging indicated multiple low-density areas in the liver, which were eventually confirmed to be metastatic SCC presented as a hepatic pseudocyst—a rare and challenging diagnosis.
Background/aims: Liver transplantation (LT) is promising method of treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients, but is limited by donor organ shortages and tumor progression during long wait periods. This study investigated the efficacy of salvage living donor LT (LDLT) after initial liver resection (LR) in HCC patients.
Methods: Sixty patients with HCC who underwent primary LDLT (n = 45) or salvage LDLT after initial LR (n = 15) were enrolled.
We have previously proven that the interspecies incompatibility of CD47 is responsible for in vitro phagocytosis of xenogeneic cells by host macrophages. Utilizing an in vivo model in the present study, we investigated whether genetically engineered expression of mouse CD47 in rat insulinoma cells (INS-1E) could inhibit macrophage-mediated xenograft rejection. INS-1E cells transfected with the pRc/CMV-mouse CD47 vector (mCD47-INS-1E) induced SIRPα-tyrosine phosphorylation in mouse macrophages in vitro, whereas cells transfected with the control vector (cont-INS-1E) did not.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: We report an instructive case of incidental renal cell carcinoma in a patient with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease who underwent simultaneous bilateral native nephrectomy and living donor renal transplantation.
Case Presentation: A 57-year-old Asian man with end-stage kidney disease due to autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease received a living kidney graft from his brother. Because of recurrent infection, chronic pain and enlarged kidneys, he underwent a bilateral nephrectomy with concomitant renal transplantation.
A rare case of primary gastric endocrine cell carcinoma in a 79-year-old man is reported. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy showed a large Bormann's type 2 tumour located in the middle of the stomach. On computed tomography, the gastric wall was thickened by the large tumour, and there were no distant metastases.
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