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Frequency and therapeutic strategy for patients with ovarian metastasis from gastric cancer
This study aimed to analyze the clinicopathological features and treatment outcomes of ovarian metastasis from gastric cancer.
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Pneumothorax during lenvatinib treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma with lung metastasis
Lenvatinib is an inhibitor of tyrosine kinases, such as vascular endothelial growth factor receptor and fibroblast growth factor receptor, and was first approved for use in thyroid cancer in 2015 in Japan. Add...
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Lymph node retrieval after colorectal cancer surgery: a comparative study of the efficacy between the conventional manual method and a new fat dissolution method
This study compared the efficacy of two different methods for lymph node (LN) searching after colorectal cancer surgery: the fat dissolution and the conventional manual method.
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Serum carbohydrate antigen 125 is a significant prognostic marker in patients with unresectable advanced or recurrent gastric cancer
We evaluated the diagnostic and prognostic value of three tumor markers: carcino-embryonic antigen (CEA), carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9), and carbohydrate antigen 125 (CA125), in the pretreatment serum of ...
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Preoperative patient-related factors associated with prognosis after esophagectomy for esophageal cancer
To investigate the impact of the preoperative patient-related factors on survival after esophagectomy in patients with esophageal cancer.
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Open AccessMetachronous solitary splenic metastasis arising from early gastric cancer: a case report and literature review
The metastasis of malignant tumors to the spleen is rare, and only a small percentage of cases can be treated surgically, as splenic metastases generally occur in the context of multivisceral metastatic cancer...
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Juxtapapillary Duodenal Diverticulum Impacted with Enterolith
A 64-year-old man underwent abdominal computed tomography (CT) as periodic follow-up following a distal gastrectomy with lymphadenectomy for gastric cancer and mucosal-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphom...
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A New Type of Barrier Options: Lizard Option
In this paper, we introduce a new type of barrier options called Lizard Option. The point is that its payoff depends on the stock price jump crossing a given barrier for the first time. In other words, Lizard Opt...
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Open AccessOn the one-sided maximum of Brownian and random walk fragments and its applications to new exotic options called “meander option”
We consider some distributions of one sided maxima of excursions and related variables for standard random walk and Brownian motion. We propose some new exotic options called meander options related to one of ...
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Binding affinity of GM3 lactone for influenza virus
We investigated the interaction of GM3 lactone with influenza virus. The specific bindings of influenza virus and its hemagglutinin to GM3 lactone-containing mixed monolayers were studied by using a quartz-cry...
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Selenium metabolite levels in human urine after dosing selenium in different chemical forms
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Analysis of selenium metabolites in human urine using ion exchange chromatography
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Urinary selenium levels in Japanese males and females