[A Case Report of Transverse Colon Cancer with Large Abdominal Wall Abscess].

A 65-year-old woman presented to the emergency outpatient department with a chief complaint of left hypochondriac pain and a rapidly expanding tumor mass. Abdominal contrast-enhanced computed tomography(CT)revealed a tumor in the transverse colon and an extensive abdominal wall abscess. A colonoscopy further confirmed a tumor in the transverse colon, and the patient was diagnosed with transverse colon cancer, abdominal wall infiltration, and abdominal wall abscess.

[A Case of Laparoscopic Local Resection of the Stomach for an Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor].

A 52-year-old man underwent upper gastrointestinal endoscopy screening that identified a submucosal tumor in the gastric fornix, and a solid tumor with a maximum diameter of 35mm was suspected based on abdominal computed tomography. An endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy showed spindle-shaped cells with KIT, CD34, desmin, and S-100 all testing negative. Based on the diagnosis of a gastrointestinal stromal tumor, subtotal gastrectomy was performed laparoscopically.

Serum microRNA-122 and Wisteria floribunda agglutinin-positive Mac-2 binding protein are useful tools for liquid biopsy of the patients with hepatitis B virus and advanced liver fibrosis.

Background: Noninvasive methods to accurately and conveniently evaluate liver fibrosis are desirable. MicroRNA (miR) is one of the candidates. MiRs are small RNAs consisting of 19-25 nucleotides that negatively regulate many target genes at transcriptional levels.

Response to peginterferon-alpha 2b and ribavirin in Japanese patients with chronic hepatitis C genotype 1.

Purpose: Patient age and gender may be associated with response to peginterferon alpha plus ribavirin, the current standard of care (SOC) for chronic hepatitis C genotype 1. We queried whether there was an association between age, gender, and treatment response to SOC in Japanese patients infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1.

Methods: Between 2006 and 2009, HCV-infected Japanese patients treated with peginterferon alpha-2b plus ribavirin for 48 weeks were enrolled.

Serial MRI of extrapontine myelinolysis of the basal ganglia: a case report.

We study a patient with extrapontine myelinolysis (EPM), without central pontine myelinolysis (CPM), who exhibited changes in abnormalities observed with MRI. MRI in the acute stage of the bilateral basal ganglia showed a high signal intensity on T2-weighted images, and a low signal on T1-weighted images. The low signal on T1-weighted images of the lesion in the acute stage changed to a high signal in the subacute stage.

Retinal detachment with breaks in the pars plicata of the ciliary body.

We studied four eyes with retinal detachment accompanied by a break in the nonpigmented epithelium in the pars plicata of the ciliary body in three patients with atopic dermatitis. Each eye had either ectopia lentis or coloboma of the lens. In the region of the lens malformation, ciliary processes were hypoplastic.