Pancreatic cancer in an Asian population.

Background And Objectives: Most of the available data on pancreatic cancer are from Western countries. The aim was to characterize pancreatic cancer in Asian patients and to compare it with pancreatic cancer in Caucasians.

Materials And Methods: Inpatients with histologically proven pancreatic cancer were retrospectively recruited at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital from January 2005 to December 2011.

Risk factors for symptomatic venous thromboembolism in Thai hospitalised medical patients.

Thromboprophylaxis for venous thromboembolism (VTE) failed to reduce overall mortality in hospitalised medical patients. As a VTE prediction model for Asians is still lacking, this study aimed to identify very high risk patients who would be the main target for prevention. In 2009, medical patients admitted to King Chulalongkorn Memorial hospital, a tertiary care centre, were prospectively evaluated for risk factors.

Abnormal findings in breast imaging: a hospital-based survey in 4264 Thai women.

Objective: To evaluate the distributions of common and significant imaging findings from breast imagings at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospitals.

Material And Method: Data was collected from every mammography performed from November 1, 2001 to October 31, 2002. The reports were analyzed and imaging findings were recorded.

Estrogen and progesterone receptors status in Thai female breast cancer patients: an analysis of 399 cases at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital.

A retrospective review was performed on 576 patients who have been diagnosed breast cancer and referred to Division of Radiation Therapy, Department of Radiology, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital between January 1995-September 2001. There were three hundred ninety nine cases of invasive breast cancer that available for estrogen (ER) and/or progesterone (PR) receptor status. The mean and median age in our study were 49.

Non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis associated with pulmonary arteriovenous communication and pulmonary arterial hypertension.

A case of non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis associated with pulmonary arteriovenous communication and pulmonary arterial hypertension is reported. The patient was a 7-year old boy who presented with hematemesis, cyanosis, hypoxemia and orthodeoxia. His liver pathology was compatible with non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis.

Angiolipoma of thalamus presenting with abrupt onset suggestive of cerebrovascular disease.

A 25-year-old man had angiolipoma of the left thalamus producing sudden severe headache, coma, right hemiparalysis, and aphasia as usually observed in cerebrovascular disease. The patient remained right hemiparalytic and aphasic after removal of the thalamic lesion. A vascular lesion was also detected angiographically in the left lateral ventricular choroid plexus but was not excised.