Publications by authors named "Toyotake Okanoue"
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- Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and carbohydrate antigen (CA)19-9 are key tumor markers used to assess and monitor colon cancer, including preoperative evaluation and postoperative recurrence checks.
- A patient had strikingly high preoperative levels of CEA (311.1 ng/ml) and CA19-9 (5731.2 U/ml), but imaging techniques (CT and PET/CT) revealed no metastases.
- After sigmoidectomy and lymph node dissection, the patient's tumor markers significantly decreased by postoperative day 60, indicating a successful surgery without the need for additional cancer treatments.
Fournier's gangrene (FG) is rapidly progressing acute gangrenous infection of the anorectal and urogenital area. FG needs precocious diagnosis and aggressive treatment with the use of wide spectrum antibioticus and surgical debridement. In our case, a 91-year-old Japanese female who had rehabilitation after treatment of pneumonia and her past history was rheumatoid arthritis treated with steroid and chronic heart failure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAcute appendicitis often presents as right lower quadrant (RLQ) pain, severe tenderness at the point of McBurny or Lanz, and Blumberg's sign. Scrotal events with appendicitis are very rare. In our case, a 63-year-old Japanese man presented with severe RLQ pain and high fever.
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