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J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep
January 2025
Blanchard Valley Health System, OH, USA.
Oxyntic gland adenomas (OGAs) are benign gastric neoplasms composed of gland-forming epithelial cells with predominantly chief cell differentiation resembling oxyntic glands confined to the mucosa. If the tumor has submucosal invasion, it should be classified as gastric adenocarcinoma of fundic gland type. The OGAs can pose a diagnostic challenge, as they can resemble aggressive gastric neoplasms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProg Biophys Mol Biol
January 2025
Department of Central Lab, Weihai Municipal Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University. Weihai, Shandong, 264200, PR China. Electronic address:
Gastric cancer (GC), particularly in East Asia, is among the most prevalent cancers with high mortality rates. According to recent epidemiological data, patients with GC account for over a quarter of all cancer incidences and approximately one third of cancer-related deaths in East Asia. Liver metastasis (LM) is not only a common form of GC distant metastasis but also poses a major challenge to the prognosis and treatment of patients with advanced GC.
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January 2025
General Surgery, Tampa General Hospital Brooksville, Brooksville, USA.
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) is a bariatric surgical procedure commonly performed in adults to treat severe obesity. While RYGB is generally safe, it occasionally leads to rare but significant complications, including intussusception, a form of bowel obstruction caused by the invagination of an intestine segment from the proximal to the adjacent distal portion. We report a case of intussusception in a 74-year-old female patient who underwent RYGB 12 years prior.
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December 2024
Emergency Medicine Department, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, GHA.
Phytobezoars are indigestible organic matter that forms organized masses in the gastrointestinal tract. Seeds reported causing bezoars include sunflower seeds, watermelon seeds, and wild banana seeds. Cocoa seeds causing bezoar have not been reported.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEpstein-Barr virus (EBV) contributes to ~1.5% of human cancers, including lymphomas, gastric and nasopharyngeal carcinomas. In most of these, nearly 80 viral lytic genes are silenced by incompletely understood epigenetic mechanisms, precluding use of antiviral agents such as ganciclovir to treat the 200,000 EBV-associated cancers/year.
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