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Aoki K, Yoshimura K, Hoashi S, Ushio T, Tai H, Itsubo K, Takagi K, Okano H. [Lung cancer with a sarcoid-like reaction in the primary tumor]. Nihon Kyobu Shikkan Gakkai Zasshi 1997; 35:466-70. [PMID: 9212676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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An 80-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of a nodular lesion in the right upper lobe of the lung. Transbronchial biopsy was performed and adenocarcinoma of the lung was confirmed by pathological examination. The tumor was resected by right upper lobectomy and was found to be a moderately differentiated tubular adenocarcinoma. Numerous non-caseating epithelioid cell granulomas were also found intermingled with the cancer cells. Metastasis was apparent in several regional lymph nodes but no granulomatous lesions were found in any lymph node, regardless of metastasis. These findings were compatible with a "sarcoid-like reaction" because there was no clinical evidence of generalized sarcoidosis or pulmonary mycobacterial infection. Although sarcoid-like reactions are occasionally associated with cancer, formation of an epithelioid cell granuloma inside the primary tumor is very rare. All the reported cases of a sarcoid-like reaction within the primary lung tumor so far were with adenocarcinoma. The sarcoid-like reaction may be a local immune response to the cancer cells.
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- K Aoki
- Department of Internal Medicine II, Daisan Hospital, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Fujita T, Kobayashi S, Saeki T, Itsubo K. Relationship between circulating secretory immunoglobulin A levels and portal blood cytokine levels during major abdominal surgery. Arch Surg 1997; 132:124-7. [PMID: 9041913 DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.1997.01430260022003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate whether circulating secretory immunoglobulin A (S-IgA) levels correlate with cytokine and endotoxin levels in the systemic or portal circulation during major abdominal surgery. METHODS Twenty patients who underwent abdominal surgery for malignant carcinoma were included in this prospective study. Portal blood samples were taken for the measurement of cytokine and endotoxin levels during abdominal surgery. Systemic blood samples were simultaneously collected for the determination of cytokine, endotoxin, and S-IgA levels. After surgery, serum levels of aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, alkaline phosphatase, and S-IgA were measured on the 1st, 7th, and 14th, postoperative days. RESULTS Circulating S-IgA levels correlated with interleukin-6 levels (r = 0.48, P < .05), but not with interleukin-1 or endotoxin levels in the portal circulation. In the postoperative period, the best correlation between serum S-IgA and other biochemical parameters was found with alkaline phosphatase (r = 0.87, P < .01), followed by alanine aminotransferase (r = 0.70, P < .01). CONCLUSIONS Interleukin-6 in the portal blood might stimulate synthesis and/or regurgitation from bile into the systemic circulation of S-IgA. Circulating levels of S-IgA appeared as a sensitive marker for postoperative cholestatic liver damage.
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- T Fujita
- First Department of Surgery, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Fujita T, Matai K, Kohno S, Itsubo K. Impact of splenectomy on circulating immunoglobulin levels and the development of postoperative infection following total gastrectomy for gastric cancer. Br J Surg 1996; 83:1776-8. [PMID: 9038567 DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800831236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Splenectomy increases the postoperative morbidity of total gastrectomy for carcinoma of the stomach. The reasons for this increased risk of postoperative infection are unknown. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of splenectomy on circulating immunoglobulin levels and to determine whether splenectomy was an independent risk factor for the development of postoperative infection in 154 patients undergoing total gastrectomy for carcinoma of the stomach. Splenectomy reduced circulating immunoglobulin M levels in the early postoperative period following total gastrectomy. However, it was not identified as an independent risk factor for the development of postoperative infection by multivariate analysis.
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- T Fujita
- First Department of Surgery, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Sato S, Hirano J, Itsubo K, Mashiko K, Nakano M, Kurosawa H. [Intravascular invasion of a thymoma from the thymic vein to the right atrium--a case report]. Nihon Kyobu Geka Gakkai Zasshi 1996; 44:998-1002. [PMID: 8741564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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A 43-year-old woman with a complaint of facial swelling was admitted to our hospital. A chest roentgenogram revealed a mass in the mediastinum. Chest CT and MRI demonstrated a mass in the anterior mediastinum protruding into the superior vena cava (SVC) and right atrium. A diagnosis of thymoma was made by needle biopsy. The patient underwent surgery without preoperative treatment. The tumor extended across the capsule of hte thymic gland and a polypoid growth of tumor reached the right atrium through the lumen of the thymic and left brachiocephalic veins and the SVC. No direct infiltration into the SVC or pericardial cavity was observed. Under cardiopulmonary bypass, the tumor was resected with the left brachiocephalic vein, SVC, and the upper third of the right atrium. The SVC was reconstructed using an EPTFE graft. Histopathologic examination demonstrated a predominantly epithelial cell thymoma. Adjuvant chemotherapy was performed, and no recurrence has been recognized for 3 years postoperatively.
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- S Sato
- Department of Surgery, Daisan Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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Ishihara Y, Maruyama S, Yagita A, Atomi Y, Tachikawa I, Takenoshita S, Nagamachi Y, Shibusawa M, Kusano M, Miura S, Kodaira S, Nakajima A, Koyanagi Y, Kimura K, Anazawa S, Sakurai K, Iwamoto M, Itsubo K, Kameoka S, Hamano K, Kajiwara T, Sugita M, Ugajin W, Shibata M, Kurosu Y. [Development of quality of life questionnaire for patients with colorectal cancer in surgical area--a study of reliability and validity of Tokyo Yamabuki Forum Version]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho 1996; 23:333-41. [PMID: 8712827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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We developed a new questionnaire in the surgical area based on a core quality of life (QOL) questionnaire for patients with gastrointestinal cancer. In this study, we investigated the validity and reliability of a QOL questionnaire (Tokyo Yamabuki Forum Version) for patients with colorectal cancer. The questionnaire was composed of 17 items including 5 scales (basic sensory scale, psychological scale, physiological scale, defection-related scale and active scale) and a face scale as an global scale. The time needed to answer questionnaires was expected to be around 7 minutes and the questionnaires should basically be answered by the patients themselves everyday in the hospital. The study was performed in 10 hospitals in the Tokyo area, and 394 samples collected from 21 patients with rectal and colonic cancers were analyzed. A number of respondents failed to answer the question "Do you feel your foods tasty?", so we judged this item inappropriate and deleted it from the analysis. Fifteen items, including 5 scales showed satisfactory internal consistency and construct validity in correlation and factor analyses. Performance status showed a low correlation between each item, each scale and the global scale, while SDS and STAI showed an inordinately negative correlation with the fundamental and physical scales. Especially, SDS revealed an extremely close correlation with the active scale, and STAI showed an excessive correlation with the psychological scale. In the time course of QOL under chemotherapy, reductions (aggravations) were observed in both the total score of 15 items and global scale within one week postoperatively, but after that recovered to preoperative levels at 2 weeks postoperatively. A tendency to QOL improvement was observed 2 weeks after starting chemotherapy or chemoimmunotherapy. QOL of 13 patients was measured over 3 months, and the longest term was 8 months. The results suggested that this QOL questionnaire has sufficient reliability and validity to be usable for patients with colorectal cancer in the surgical area and that this model is applicable for long-term QOL surveys and frequent measurement.
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- Y Ishihara
- Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Tokyo Women's Medical College, Japan
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Murai R, Ando H, Hirohara S, Okui S, Kusuyama A, Sasaki T, Watanabe N, Sasaya K, Komuro K, Itsubo K. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy with an ultrasound surgical aspirator. Surg Endosc 1995; 9:88-90. [PMID: 7725224 DOI: 10.1007/bf00187896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Laparoscopic cholecystectomy using an ultrasound surgical aspirator has been performed in our department since March 1991. The horn cover was altered in order to be inserted through a trocar 10 mm in diameter. The main purpose of this device is to explore Calot's triangle by fragmentation and aspiration of the fatty tissue without damaging the nerves, vessels, and cystic duct. First the serosa of the Calot's triangle is cut via electrocautery with the sharp-angle hook dissector we designed. Then the cystic duct and cystic artery are efficiently exposed by the ultrasound surgical aspirator. This procedure is perfectly adapted for laparoscopic cholecystectomy. We obtained favorable results with the ultrasound surgical aspirator in 135 cases including 40 cases with a negative gallbladder, as evaluated by endoscopic retrograde cholangiography. In conclusion, the ultrasound surgical aspirator is suitable for skeletonizing the cystic duct and cystic artery, and the procedure is perfectly safe.
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- R Murai
- Department of Surgery, Daisan Hospital, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Ushio T, Yoshimura K, Kojima A, Tai H, Hanzawa T, Itsubo K, Takagi K, Sugizaki Y, Okano H. [A case of Castleman's disease that recurred nine years after initial surgical removal]. Nihon Kyobu Shikkan Gakkai Zasshi 1994; 32:1175-80. [PMID: 7853775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Castleman's disease (CD) is a lymphoproliferative disorder with resemblance in histopathology of thymoma. Here we describe a 48-year-old man with bloody sputum and a mass lesion of the right hilum on chest roentgenogram. He had undergone an incomplete surgical removal of a mediastinal tumor nine years earlier, which proved to be CD with characteristics of hyaline-vascular type pathology. The regrown mass lesion as well as the right upper and middle lobes were removed surgically. Histological examination of the tumor specimen revealed characteristics of hyaline-vascular type CD which were nearly identical to those of the tumor removed nine years earlier. Recurrence of CD as observed in the present report is very uncommon, since only 5 cases, including this one, have been reported. We suggest that in CD the primary tumor as well as regional lymph nodes should be completely removed, and the patients should be kept under long-term postoperative observation to check for recurrence.
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- T Ushio
- Department of Internal Medicine II, Daisan Hospital, Jikei University School of Medicine
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Percutaneous stenting for malignant biliary stenosis is quite beneficial to patients with unresectable or recurrent disease, tremendously improving the quality of their lives. Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) was attempted in 92 patients with obstructive jaundice during the period between January 1986 and July 1989. Implantation of an endoprosthesis was performed in 14 cases (15.2%) and succeeded in 12 (85.7%). When a guide wire could not be passed distally across the stricture site, percutaneous transhepatic cholangioscopy (PTCS) through the dilated PTBD fistula was carried out to enable its passage. PTCS is also valuable in the preoperative diagnosis of obstructive jaundice. The patients who are not candidates for surgery are suitable for this procedure. A Miller double-mushroom stent is used as the endoprosthesis in the majority of cases. One patient with recurrent hepatoma has lived at home with this stent for greater than 3 years due to repeated transarterial embolization and chemotherapy and does not need to wash or change the stent.
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- R Murai
- Department of Surgery, Daisan Hospital, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Komuro K, Watanabe K, Ishida T, Sakurai M, Amano R, Hagiwara H, Hara Y, Hanzawa T, Itsubo K. [Clinical evaluation of a new tumor marker, CA 15-3, in breast cancer; a comparative study with CEA]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho 1986; 13:3145-9. [PMID: 3465273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Recently, a new RIA method has been developed by Centocor Co., utilizing the monoclonal antibody CA 15-3. We performed a clinical trial to evaluate its utility as a tumor marker for breast cancer in comparison with CEA. We set 15 U/ml as the cut-off value of serum CA 15-3 level from results acquired from controls; 10 volunteers and 17 patients with non-malignant diseases. The CA 15-3 positive rate among the cases of primary breast cancer was 13.3%, which was of poor diagnostic value. In the recurrent cases the positive rate of CA 15-3 was 72.0%, which was valuable compared with that of serum CEA, 52.0%. In the cases of primary cancers other than breast cancer, the positive rate of CA 15-3 was 6.9%.
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Tominaga S, Kawakami K, Mori Y, Shimada T, Itsubo K. [Regional pulmonary functions of spontaneous pneumothorax in the post-thoracotomy stage]. Kokyu To Junkan 1985; 33:887-90. [PMID: 4059678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Itsubo K, Tachihara Y, Kodama Y, Hanzawa T, Kobayashi S, Yamazaki A, Kashimura K, Kushida N, Ikeda Y, Miyamoto S. [Catamenial pneumothorax (author's transl)]. Nihon Kyobu Geka Gakkai Zasshi 1981; 29:1962-7. [PMID: 7338655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Itsubo K, Omono S, Kobayashi S, Fujibayashi S, Harimura Y, Yoshida K. [Influence of hyperbaric oxygen on the function of the adrenal cortex (author's transl)]. Nihon Eiseigaku Zasshi 1981; 35:807-13. [PMID: 7289171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Itsubo K, Abe N, Kodama Y, Yamazaki H, Hanzawa T. [Thoracic trauma: lung injuries and clinical courses]. Nihon Kyobu Geka Gakkai Zasshi 1978; 26:217-8. [PMID: 701857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Yamazaki Y, Itsubo K, Koyama K, Yoda T, Yamazaki A. [Leiomyoma of the lung--a case study]. Nihon Kyobu Geka Gakkai Zasshi 1976; 24:84-8. [PMID: 943452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Hara T, Itsubo K, Kodama T, Ito Y, Tsurusaki R. [Case of congenital coronary arterio-venous fistula]. Kyobu Geka 1971; 24:433-7. [PMID: 5104518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Tominaga S, Ando H, Yoshizawa R, Fujitsuka K, Itsubo K. [Case of malignant double tumor and review of the literature]. Gan No Rinsho 1970; 16:841-5. [PMID: 5465972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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