Aortitis during intraarterial chemotherapy for cervical cancer.

A 76-year-old woman with stage IIb cervical cancer with a bulky tumor experienced aortitis during continuous intraarterial cisplatin-based chemotherapy. The chemotherapy was administered through a catheter tip placed in the aorta abdominalis, utilizing an external infusion pump. During the third course of chemotherapy, she complained of left-sided lower back pain and moderate fever was observed.

Immunologic evaluation of an Escherichia coli O157-infected pregnant woman. A case report.

Background: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of pregnancy complicated by hemorrhagic enterocolitis due to Escherichia coli O157.

Case: A woman with hemorrhagic enterocolitis due to E coli O157 was seen at 32 weeks of gestation. We investigated her immune response to 0157 lipopolysaccharide and to Shiga toxin in the sera and breast milk.

Bladder carcinoma evaluated by transvaginal ultrasonography.

Transvaginal ultrasonography is a less invasive examination method than transrectal and transurethral ultrasonography for women. However, in spite of the use of transrectal and transurethral ultrasound for the detection of a bladder tumor being well known to urologists, we found no previous studies on transvaginal ultrasonography as a method to evaluate bladder carcinoma. We report a case in which transvaginal ultrasonography contributed to the screening and evaluation of bladder carcinoma.

Gasless laparoscopy under epidural anesthesia for adnexal cysts during pregnancy.

Objective: To evaluate laparoscopic adnexal cystectomy during pregnancy using an open technique with a whole abdominal wall-lift method under epidural anesthesia.

Study Design: Seven cases of adnexal cysts during pregnancy were resected using a gasless laparoscopic (extracorporeal) method with a whole abdominal wall-lift. We performed this procedure without using general anesthesia or CO2 pneumoperitoneum.