[Lung Cancer Complicated with Empyema Due to Intratumoral Abscess;Report of a Case].

A 73-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of fever. A chest computed tomography (CT) scan revealed a 10-cm-sized irregular mass with air-fluid level in the left lower lobe, and sputum cytology revealed squamous cell carcinoma, which was diagnosed as a giant squamous cell carcinoma with intratumoral abscess. Later, the empyema developed and drainage was performed for empyema and intratumoral abscess.

A new infarction detection method based on heart rate variability in rat middle cerebral artery occlusion model.

Objective: The present study proposes a cerebral infarction detection algorithm based on heart rate variability (HRV).

Methods: It has been reported that infarction affects HRV. Therefore, infarction could be detected at an acute stage by monitoring HRV.

Missing RRI interpolation for HRV analysis using locally-weighted partial least squares regression.

The R-R interval (RRI) fluctuation in electrocardiogram (ECG) is called heart rate variability (HRV). Since HRV reflects autonomic nervous function, HRV-based health monitoring services, such as stress estimation, drowsy driving detection, and epileptic seizure prediction, have been proposed. In these HRV-based health monitoring services, precise R wave detection from ECG is required; however, R waves cannot always be detected due to ECG artifacts.

Feasibility of sequential adjuvant chemotherapy with a 3-month oxaliplatin-based regimen followed by 3 months of capecitabine in patients with stage III and high-risk stage II colorectal cancer: JSWOG-C2 study.

Background: Six months of oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy is the standard adjuvant chemotherapy for completely resected stage III colorectal cancer (CRC). Also, patients with stage II CRC who are considered to be at high risk of disease recurrence often receive the same adjuvant chemotherapy treatment. We prospectively investigated the extent and degree of neuropathy suffered by stage III and high-risk stage II resectable CRC patients who underwent sequential approach involving 3 months of an oxaliplatin-based regimen followed by 3 months of capecitabine.

[Long survival of a colon cancer case with synchronous multiple liver metastases responding to S-1].

In May 2005, a 79-year-old woman was referred to our hospital with complaints of right lower quadrant mass and feces mixed with blood. After examination, she was diagnosed with ascending colon cancer and synchronous multiple liver metastases. Postoperative diagnosis after right hemicolectomy and D3 lymph node dissection was T2, N1, H2, P0, M0, and Stage IV.