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December 2024
Surgery, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, CAN.
Concurrent malignant biliary and gastric outlet obstruction requires urgent palliative intervention to improve patient quality of life and permit systemic therapy. Traditional management has been surgical gastrojejunostomy and hepaticojejunostomy, two morbid procedures. Comparatively, endoscopic stenting can relieve both sites of obstruction with less complications and quicker recovery.
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January 2025
Department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Mie University, Tsu, Mie, Japan.
Annular pancreas is a rare congenital anatomical anomaly, in which the pancreatic parenchyma surrounds the descending duodenum. Generally, annular pancreas is diagnosed on the basis of symptoms associated with complications of peptic ulcer, pancreatitis, cholelithiasis, and rarely, malignant tumors. Herein, we report an 84-year-old man for whom, during hospitalization for a urinary tract infection, pancreatic cystic lesions and an annular pancreas were noted incidentally on computed tomography.
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January 2025
Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Clinical Research Center for Cell-based Immunotherapy, Shanghai Pudong Hospital, State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Human Phenome Institute, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China.
Ampullary adenocarcinoma (AMPAC) is a rare and heterogeneous malignancy. Here we performed a comprehensive proteogenomic analysis of 198 samples from Chinese AMPAC patients and duodenum patients. Genomic data illustrate that 4q loss causes fatty acid accumulation and cell proliferation.
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January 2025
Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Background: Small bowel adenocarcinoma (SBA) is a rare malignancy with few established chemotherapy options and a dismal prognosis. We investigated the expression of claudin 18.2, nectin-4, human epidermal growth factor receptor 3 (HER3), and programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) in SBA to identify potential antibody drug targets and analyzed associated clinicopathological features and prognosis.
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December 2024
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen 518036, Guangdong Province, China.
Background: Mucosal adenocarcinoma of the descending duodenum is a very rare gastrointestinal tumor. Due to its low incidence, it has rarely been the focus of clinical and pathological studies. The clinical manifestations of these tumors are usually nonspecific, and they are easily misdiagnosed or missed.
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