Validation of an assessment tool: Estimation of Postoperative Overall Survival for Gastric Cancer.

Background: Benchmarking of long-term surgical outcomes has rarely been attempted. We previously devised a prediction model for assessing the outcome of late survival after surgery, termed the Estimation of Postoperative Overall Survival for Gastric Cancer (EPOS-GC). This study was undertaken to validate EPOS-GC in an external data set.

Spontaneous rupture of a hepatic angiomyolipoma: Report of a case.

A 70-year-old female experienced sudden onset of back pain on the right side and was admitted to our hospital in December 2010. Abdominal computed tomography revealed an S7 hepatic mass measuring 7 cm in diameter accompanied by a subcapsular hematoma. Emergency angiography confirmed the diagnosis of a ruptured hepatic mass, and hemostasis was carried out by embolization of A8 and A7 of the liver.

Hepatectomy in a hepatocellular carcinoma case with Dubin-Johnson syndrome and indocyanine green excretory defect.

A 77-year-old male patient with history of jaundice was referred to our hospital for treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). He was found to have Dubin-Johnson syndrome (DJS), a clinical feature of constitutional jaundice with conjugated hyperbilirubinemia, and indocyanine green (ICG) excretory defect, both of which are rare conditions. Total bilirubin was 5.