In the management of inoperable patients who have advanced gastric cancer, it is important to control an active tumor bleeding for the purpose of keeping the patient's quality of life well. We treated two patients: embolization with coil to aneurysm in the gastric tumor in one case, and embolization and chemoradiationtherapy with S-1 in the other. In results, we have never seen an active tumor bleeding and anemic state requiring a blood transfusion after the treatment.
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November 2002
We report a case of fatal anaphylactoid shock caused by a CT examination using nonionic contrast medium. A 79-year-old female patient was diagnosed with right recurrent nerve plasy. There was no known history of drug allergy or exposure to contrast medium.
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