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An autopsy case of lung adenocarcinoma with immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced pneumonia and fulminant myocarditis following pembrolizumab administration: a case report
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are the current standard of care for non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Myocarditis is a rare but serious immune-related adverse event (irAE) associated with ICI therapy. W...
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Volatile Separation and Recovery of Iridium Using Rare Earth Oxides to Form Complex Oxides for Effective Solubilization
The recycling of Ir as a platinum group metal is critical because of its extremely low production volume. The separation of Ir from Ta was realized via the oxidative volatilization of Ir, where the volatilized Ir...
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Evans’ syndrome induced by atezolizumab plus bevacizumab combination therapy in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma
An 86-year-old man presented with recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after surgery. Atezolizumab plus bevacizumab was initiated. After the third course of atezolizumab plus bevacizumab therapy, petec...
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Open AccessThe Glasgow Prognostic Score Before Curative Resection May Predict Postoperative Complications in Patients with Gastric Cancer
Despite improvements in surgical techniques and devices and perioperative care of gastric cancer (GC), the rate of postoperative complications still has not decreased. If patients at high risk for postoperativ...
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Feasibility and Safety of Oral Nutritional Supplementation with High-Density Liquid Diet After Total Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer
Patients requiring total gastrectomy for gastric cancer experience a decrease in food intake leading to severe body weight loss after surgery. This loss may be prevented using a high-density liquid diet of hig...
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Open AccessX-ray nanoimaging of a transversely embedded carbon fiber in epoxy matrix under static and cyclic loads
The initial stage of fatigue failure has not been thoroughly clarified for carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRPs). Although the initiation of fatigue cracks has been regarded to be interfacial debonding betw...
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Open AccessDifference of compliance rates for the recommendations in Japanese Guideline on Febrile Neutropenia according to respondents’ attributes: the second report on a questionnaire survey among hematology-oncology physicians and surgeons
The Japanese Society of Medical Oncology (JSMO) published a guideline (GL) on febrile neutropenia (FN) in 2017. This study aims to identify promoting factors and disincentives for complying with GL recommendat...
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Open AccessA questionnaire survey on evaluation for penetration and compliance of the Japanese Guideline on Febrile Neutropenia among hematology-oncology physicians and surgeons
The Japanese Society of Medical Oncology published a guideline (GL) on febrile neutropenia (FN) in 2017. The study’s purpose is to reveal how widely GL penetrated among physicians and surgeons providing chemot...
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Cytotoxic effects of alteplase, a recombinant tissue plasminogen activator, on human retinal pigment epithelial cells
To evaluate the cytotoxic effects of alteplase, a recombinant tissue plasminogen activator, and its additives on human retinal pigment epithelial (hRPE) cells.
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Assessment of epiretinal membrane formation using en face optical coherence tomography after rhegmatogenous retinal detachment repair
To investigate epiretinal membrane (ERM) formation using en face optical coherence tomography (OCT) after vitrectomy for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD).
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Open AccessSuccessful treatment of aortic valve endocarditis caused by Enterococcus casseliflavus: a case report
Enterococcus casseliflavus is rarely isolated from human specimens. To the best of our knowledge, there are no reports on its detailed treatment course and prognosis. Here, we present the first known case of E. c...
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Open AccessEn face image-based classification of diabetic macular edema using swept source optical coherence tomography
This retrospective study was performed to classify diabetic macular edema (DME) based on the localization and area of the fluid and to investigate the relationship of the classification with visual acuity (VA)...
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Open AccessEffect of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment on preoperative and postoperative retinal sensitivities
This retrospective study investigated foveal and perifoveal retinal sensitivities using microperimetry before and after surgery for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD). Consecutive patients with RRD who un...
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Open AccessRelease and extraction of retained subfoveal perfluorocarbon liquid facilitated by subretinal BSS, vibration, and gravity: a case report
Perfluorocarbon liquid (PFCL) is an effective surgical adjuvant in performing vitrectomy for severe vitreoretinal pathologies such as proliferative vitreoretinopathy and giant retinal tears. However, subretina...
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Open AccessPostoperative outcomes of gastric carcinoma with lymphoid stroma
Gastric carcinoma with lymphoid stroma (GCLS) is a rare subtype of gastric cancer. There have been several reports demonstrating the favorable prognosis of early GCLS without lymph node metastasis (LNM) compar...
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Interocular symmetry of the foveal avascular zone area in healthy eyes: a swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography study
To determine the presence or absence of interocular differences in the foveal avascular zone (FAZ) area in healthy eyes.
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Open AccessWhich is the Better Inpainted Image?Training Data Generation Without Any Manual Operations
This paper proposes a learning-based quality evaluation framework for inpainted results that does not require any subjectively annotated training data. Image inpainting, which removes and restores unwanted reg...
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Results of lamellar macular hole-associated epiretinal proliferation embedding technique for the treatment of degenerative lamellar macular hole
To investigate the outcomes of embedding lamellar hole-associated epiretinal proliferation (LHEP) into retinal cleavage for the surgical treatment of degenerative lamellar macular hole (LMH).
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Open AccessUnderground structures associated with horizontal sliding at Uchinomaki hot springs, Kyushu, Japan, during the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake
The 2016 Kumamoto earthquake (Mw 7.0) caused hot springs in the Uchinomaki area of Aso caldera to become dormant. Geodetic and borehole observations have previously demonstrated that the area around the hot sp...
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Image-based center of mass estimation of the human body via 3D shape and kinematic structure
This paper presents a method to estimate a time-sequential trajectory of the center of mass (CoM) of an athlete from a multi-view set of cameras. Collecting the CoM typically requires large-scale measuring sys...
