[S-1 + CPT-11 combination therapy with continuing 30-month CR in a recurrent gastric cancer with para-aortic lymph node metastasis in adjuvant chemotherapy with S-1--a case report].

The patient is a 62-year-old male who was treated for macroscopic-type 3 gastric cancer by total gastrectomy (D2) and splenectomy. His disease was recorded as pT3, pN2, Stage IIIB, curability B, and S-1 was started as postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy. One year later, during the adjuvant chemotherapy, CT revealed para-aortic lymph node enlargement.

Benign esophageal schwannoma compressing the trachea in pregnancy.

A rare case of esophageal schwannoma compressing the trachea in pregnancy is presented. A 29-year-old pregnant woman was hospitalized due to severe dyspnea. Imaging studies revealed a homogeneous tumor (8 cm in diameter) in the posterior mediastinum with compression of the lower trachea.

Suppression of T-cell function in gastric cancer patients after total gastrectomy with splenectomy: implications of splenic autotransplantation.

Background. In Japan since the 1960s, patients with gastric cancer have routinely had splenectomy combined with gastrectomy to ensure that lymph node dissection is complete. However, the influence of splenectomy on long-term immunity is unclear.