Publications by authors named "Tomoe Katoh"

Pancreatic cancer is often advanced and invades the major blood vessels around the pancreas. Portal vein (PV) and/or superior mesenteric vein (SMV) resection is performed for radical resection. In such cases, end-to-end anastomosis is best if the remnant vein is sufficiently long.

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Locally advanced breast cancer (tumor > 5 cm, widespread infiltration of the skin and muscle, or metastases to lymph nodes) is difficult to resect by surgery, and even when it is resectable, there is a high probability of local recurrence and distant metastasis. Therefore, systemic therapy should be administered first. However, as cutaneous infiltration progresses, the patient's quality of life is impaired by pain, bleeding, presence of exudates, and a foul-smelling odor.

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Background/aim: Several indicators of systemic inflammation have been reported to predict the outcomes of patients with malignant tumors but have not been fully investigated. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the preoperative lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR) can predict the outcomes of patients with pancreatic head cancer.

Patients And Methods: We studied 32 patients who underwent curative surgery for pancreatic head cancer in our hospital between 2006 and 2016.

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Binuclear cells have been occasionally observed in nonneoplastic and carcinoma cells. However, in clinical cases, few reports have analyzed and discussed the origins and features, including the proliferative capacity, of binuclear cells. We describe the case of a 75-year-old man with gastric cancer with microscopically prominent binuclear cells in the resected tissue and ascitic fluid.

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Purpose: To evaluate the newly developed continuous suture technique in dunking pancreatojejunostomy without pancreatic duct stenting after pancreatoduodenectomy (PD).

Methods: Thirty-four consecutive pancreaticojejunostomies (patient age 73 ± 11, 41-88) with continuous sutures without stenting after PD were performed from 2006 to 2011. This study evaluated the operation time, intraoperative blood loss, initial postoperative day of oral feeding, postoperative hospital stay, postoperative early complications, and late complications.

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A 57-year-old man admitted to our hospital with a pulmonary nodule detected by chest X-ray. Chest X-ray and chest computed tomography (CT) showed a solitary nodule with a spiculation in the right lower lobe (S8), 17 x 15 mm in size. His laboratory findings were almost within normal ranges.

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