Five-Year Survival Outcomes After Carbon-Ion Radiotherapy for Operable Stage I NSCLC: A Japanese National Registry Study (J-CROS-LUNG).

Introduction: The standard therapy for stage I NSCLC is surgery, but some operable patients refuse this option and instead undergo radiotherapy. Carbon-ion radiotherapy (CIRT) is a type of radiotherapy. The Japanese prospective nationwide registry study on CIRT began in 2016.

Impact of nurses' roles and burden on burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic: Multicentre cross-sectional survey.

Aim: To identify groups of nurses engaging in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) care who are most in need of organizational support.

Background: Overwhelming stress and susceptibility to burnout have been reported in nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: Nurses working at five hospitals that accepted COVID-19 patients answered the questionnaire.

Lip-closing pressure during food intake from a spoon in normal children.

Background: Understanding the refinement of self-feeding skills is useful for the assessment of oral functional development in children.

Objectives: To determine normative data on lip closing during food intake in the development of independent spoon-feeding in normal children, we tested the hypothesis that lip-closing pressure and spoon operation differ depending on food type.

Methods: Fifteen normal children (eight boys, seven girls; mean age: 6.

FOLFIRINOX for Recurrent Pancreatic Cancer After Pancreatic Resection: A Secondary Analysis of the Nationwide Multicenter Observational Study Conducted by the Japan Adjuvant Study Group of Pancreatic Cancer 06.

Objectives: The multidrug regimen with fluorouracil, leucovorin, irinotecan, and oxaliplatin (FOLFIRINOX) is widely used for recurrent pancreatic cancer after pancreatic resection. However, there are concerns about severe toxicities and poor tolerability of FOLFIRINOX in these patients because some suffer from surgery-associated malnutrition, weight loss, and diabetes mellitus. We evaluated the toxicity and tolerability of FOLFIRINOX in these patients.

Primary renal mixed tumor characterized by marked proliferation of osteoblast-like cells with osteoid formation in a swine.

Renal mixed tumor characterized by the absence of nephrogenic blastema and the presence of predominant osteoid-producing osteoblast-like cells occurred in the kidney of a 6-month-old, hybrid, female pig. At the post-mortem examination, the tumor was found as a calcified grayish-white mass at the cranial end of the left kidney. Histologically the tumor consisted of 3 growth areas of poorly differentiated spindle cells, osteoid-producing osteoblast-like cells, and luminal epithelial cells.

Searching for the reasons for drop-out from peritoneal dialysis: a nationwide survey in Japan.

Purpose: We wanted to clarify, in a large population, the reasons that peritoneal dialysis (PD) was interrupted and to propose appropriate strategies that might prolong the use of PD as a renal replacement therapy.

Patients And Methods: We enrolled 5 391 patients from 439 centers into the study. Each center used a worksheet to report details about patients who either transferred to hemodialysis (HD) or died on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) over a 6-month period from 1 April 2000, to 30 September 2000.

A case of renal sarcoidosis: a special reference to calcium metabolism as a diagnostic and the therapeutic implications.

Sarcoidosis is a systemic granulomatous disease of unknown etiology and is associated with a wide variety of renal disorders including nephrolithiasis, hypercalciuria, hypercalcemia, nephrocalcinosis, tubular defect, glomerulonephritis, and granulomatous interstitial nephritis. We report a case of renal sarcoidosis in which we could not detect any evidence of extrarenal involvements that was diagnosed by renal biopsy and abnormal calcium metabolism incompatible with chronic renal insufficiency. On laboratory findings, decreased creatinine clearance, proteinuria, hypercalcemia, hypercalciuria, and mildly elevated serum angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) were seen.

[Cleidocranial dysplasia: a case report].

A 3-month-old female infant who presented with patent sagittal suture and loss of weight is described. Physical examination revealed a large sagittal and metopic suture showing delayed closure, a high-arched palate, saddle nose, hypertelorism and nonpalpable edges of the bilateral clavicles. The clavicles also showed undue mobility.

[A case of de novo aneurysm of the distal posterior inferior cerebellar artery with intraventricular hemorrhage].

A case is presented of a de novo aneurysm of the distal posterior inferior cerebellar artery with intraventricular hemorrhage. A 67-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with sudden onset of severe headache and loss of consciousness. Computed tomography (CT) scans showed subarachnoid hemorrhage.

[Iron deposition in the brain of a case of the special type of hepatocerebral encephalopathy].

The histochemical demonstration of iron and the iron content was examined in the brain of a case of the special type of hepatocerebral encephalopathy (HCE). The patient had suffered from a liver disease since 36 years old. At 44 years old, she experienced the first attack of twilight state with flapping tremor.