Cryptococcal Prostatitis Forming Caseous and Suppurative Granulomas Diagnosed by Needle Biopsy: A Case Report.

Cryptococcal granulomatous prostatitis is extremely rare, and there have been few reports of its diagnosis by prostate needle biopsy. The patient, an 81-year-old man, was receiving immunosuppressive treatment for rheumatoid arthritis. He had an oropharyngeal ulcer, and it was diagnosed alongside a methotrexate-related diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Postoperative Complications Associated With Intra- Versus Extracorporeal Anastomosis for Laparoscopic Right Colectomy.

Objective: To compare the postoperative complications of intracorporeal anastomosis (ICA) and extracorporeal anastomosis (ECA) in patients undergoing laparoscopic right colectomy (LRC).

Background: Although several studies have compared postoperative complications of ICA and ECA after LRC, most were retrospective studies.

Methods: We performed a comprehensive electronic search of the literature to identify studies that compared postoperative complications between ICA and ECA in patients who underwent LRC.

MRI-based kinematics of the menisci through full knee range of motion.

Purpose: The meniscal kinematics in the full knee range of motion (ROM) have not been demonstrated by MRI, because the narrow bore of the superconducting magnet prevents full knee motion. The purpose of this study was to the investigate meniscal kinematics associated with femorotibial kinematics using an open-structure MRI unit that allows kinematic analysis of the menisci in full knee ROM.

Methods: Non-weight-bearing MR images of the right knee of 10 subjects were acquired at six angles of knee flexion (0°, 30°, 60°, 90°, 120°, and full flexion) using a compact 0.

Appendectomy Does Not Increase the Risk of Future Emergence of Parkinson's Disease: A Meta-analysis.

Objective: To explore the impact of appendectomy history on emergence of Parkinson's disease (PD).

Background: Although there are several studies to investigate the relationship between appendectomy history and emergence of PD, the results are still controversial.

Methods: We performed a comprehensive electronic search of the literature (the Cochrane Library, PubMed, and the Web of Science) up to April 2020 to identify studies that had employed databases allowing comparison of emergence of PD between patients with and those without appendectomy history.

Comparison of Current Staging Systems for Sinonasal Inverted Papilloma.

Background: A staging system is essential for determining the optimal surgical approach and predicting postoperative outcomes for inverted papilloma (IP). Although staging systems based on the extent to which the location is occupied by an IP have been widely used, an origin site-based classification of IP using unsupervised machine learning algorithms has recently been reported.

Objective: To determine the most appropriate of five staging systems for sinonasal IP by comparing recurrence rates for each stage according to each of those systems.