[Postoperative urinary ulinastatin secretion and renal function in hepatectomized patients with and without liver cirrhosis].

We compared ulinastatin secretion into urine with renal function during postoperative period in three groups, hepatectomized group with liver cirrhosis (LC(+), n = 7), hepatectomized group without liver cirrhosis (LC(-), n = 4) and subtotal gastrectomized group with normal liver function (GR, n = 7). In LC(+) group, N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (NAG) increased above normal upper limit throughout the postoperative period. Ulinastatin (UTI) also increased but the increase was not remarkable.

Leukemia developing after 131I treatment for thyroid cancer in a patient with Werner's syndrome: molecular and cytogenetic studies.

A 40-year-old female patient with Werner's syndrome (WS) suffering from thyroid cancer and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is reported. She had been diagnosed as having WS complicated with thyroid cancer seven years previously. Total thyroidectomy and radioactive iodine (131I, 100 mCi/year) therapy for seven years had slowed the progression of thyroid cancer.