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    Impending Blindness by Obstructive Hydrocephalus Intractable to Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy: Case Report

    Endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) has been accepted for obstructive hydrocephalus (OH). We herein present a case of OH and optic nerve sheath edema (ONSE). Although ETV was successful, ONSE worsened. Disc...

    Nobuo Shirasaka, Muneyoshi Yasuda, Kazuhito Takeuchi in SN Comprehensive Clinical Medicine (2021)

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    Primary spinal intramedullary Ewing-like sarcoma harboring CIC-DUX4 translocation: a similar cytological appearance as its soft tissue counterpart but no lobulation in association with desmoplastic stroma

    The CIC-DUX4 translocation is the most common genetic alteration of small round cell sarcomas without EWSR1 rearrangement. These “Ewing-like sarcomas” usually occur in peripheral soft tissues, and rare primary ce...

    Seiji Yamada, Jun Muto, John Clemente Aniceto De Leon in Brain Tumor Pathology (2020)

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    The association between sacroiliac joint-related pain following lumbar spine surgery and spinopelvic parameters: a prospective multicenter study

    To prospectively calculate the incidence of postoperative sacroiliac joint-related pain (SIJP) and investigate the association between spinopelvic parameters and postoperative SIJP after lumbar spine surgery.

    Juichi Tonosu, Daisuke Kurosawa, Takako Nishi, Keisuke Ito in European Spine Journal (2019)

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    Metabolism as master of hematopoietic stem cell fate

    HSCs have a fate choice when they divide; they can self-renew, producing new HSCs, or produce daughter cells that will mature to become committed cells. Technical challenges, however, have long obscured the me...

    Kyoko Ito, Massimo Bonora, Keisuke Ito in International Journal of Hematology (2019)

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    Effect of Notch expression in glioma stem cells on therapeutic response to chemo-radiotherapy in recurrent glioblastoma

    Glioma stem cells (GSCs) have the capacity to repopulate tumors and mediate resistance to radiotherapy and chemotherapy. The Notch signaling pathway is important in proliferation, stem cell maintenance, cell d...

    Norihiko Saito, Kazuya Aoki, Nozomi Hirai, Satoshi Fujita in Brain Tumor Pathology (2015)

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    The role of PML in hematopoietic and leukemic stem cell maintenance

    The tumor suppressor promyelocytic leukemia (PML) was first identified as a component of PML–RARα fusion protein, one of the initiating cytogenetic abnormalities in acute promyelocytic leukemia. PML is now kno...

    Fumio Nakahara, Cary N. Weiss, Keisuke Ito in International Journal of Hematology (2014)

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    Early seizures after clip** of unruptured aneurysms of the anterior circulation: analysis on consecutive 1,000 cases

    Seizures occurring after clip** of unruptured cerebral aneurysms have rarely been documented in the literature. The objective of this retrospective study is to clarify whether the frequency of early seizures...

    Joji Inamasu, Shunsuke Tanoue, Takeya Watabe, Shuei Imizu in Neurosurgical Review (2013)

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    Contiguous sagittal split fractures of cervical vertebrae bodies with no neurological impairment

    Yoshiro Musha, Takao Kaneko, Sayuri Yoshizawa in Journal of Orthopaedic Science (2013)

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    The role of catecholamines in the pathogenesis of neurogenic pulmonary edema associated with subarachnoid hemorrhage

    Neurogenic pulmonary edema (NPE) occurs frequently after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), and excessive release of catecholamines (epinephrine/norepinephrine) has been suggested as its principal cause...

    Joji Inamasu, Keiko Sugimoto, Yasuhiro Yamada, Tsukasa Ganaha in Acta Neurochirurgica (2012)

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    A novel therapeutic approach for hematological malignancies based on cellular differentiation and apoptosis

    Hematological malignancies including acute leukemia, and multiple myeloma are disorders characterized by the accumulation of neoplastic hematopoietic cells, resulting in aggressive clinical manifestations with...

    Masahiro Kizaki, Tomonori Nakazato, Keisuke Ito in International Journal of Hematology (2002)