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    Intradural squamous cell carcinoma in the sacrum

    Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis occurs in patients with cancer at the rate of approximately 5%; it develops particularly in patients with breast cancer, lung cancer, melanoma, leukemia, or malignant lymphoma. We...

    Tatsuki Fukushima, Yuichi Kasai, Ko Kato in World Journal of Surgical Oncology (2009)

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    A novel hyperthermia treatment for bone metastases using magnetic materials

    Patients with bone metastases in the extremities sometimes require surgical intervention to prevent deterioration of quality of life due to a pathological fracture. The use of localized radiotherapy combined w...

    Akihiko Matsumine, Kenji Takegami in International Journal of Clinical Oncology (2011)

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    The adverse effect of an unplanned surgical excision of foot soft tissue sarcoma

    Malignant soft tissue tumors of the foot are extremely rare and thus can be prematurely excised without appropriate preoperative evaluation. The present study compares adverse effects between unplanned and pla...

    Akinobu Nishimura, Akihiko Matsumine in World Journal of Surgical Oncology (2011)

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    The thrombin inhibitor, argatroban, inhibits breast cancer metastasis to bone

    Breast cancer has the potential to metastasize to bone, causing debilitating symptoms. Although many tumor cells have thrombin-generating systems originating from tissue factor (TF), therapy in terms of the co...

    Kunihiro Asanuma, Hiroki Wakabayashi, Takayuki Okamoto, Yumiko Asanuma in Breast Cancer (2013)