Risk factors of adjacent vertebral collapse after percutaneous vertebroplasty for osteoporotic vertebral fracture in postmenopausal women.

Background: Recently percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) was frequently performed for treatment of osteoporotic vertebral fractures (VFs). It is widely accepted that new compression fractures tend to occur adjacent to the vertebral bodies, typically within a month after PVP. To determine the risk factors among several potential predictors for de novo VFs following PVP in patients with osteoporosis.

Metastatic carcinoma to subcutaneous tissue and skeletal muscle: clinicopathological features in 11 cases.

Objective: Metastatic carcinoma to subcutaneous tissue or skeletal muscle is relatively rare. The present study aimed to clarify the clinicopathological features for confirming the diagnosis as soft tissue metastasis and determining the primary site.

Methods: We reviewed records of 11 patients with soft tissue metastasis who were in our institution from 1996 to 2009.

[Neoadjuvant chemotherapy with nedaplatin and UFT for oral squamous cell carcinomas].

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of preoperative combination chemotherapy with nedaplatin and UFT for oral squamous cell carcinomas. Eleven patients were enrolled in this study (four men and seven women, with a mean age of 66.3 years).