2-3 Fortunately, SPNs are low-grade malignant neoplasms that respond well to surgical resection, and this patient is doing just fine after her distal pancreatectomy. In this case, both the patient and our pathologist listened to their guts with the patient pursuing advanced medical care for some...
Ringworm, also referred to as “tinea” or “dermatophytosis,” is a commonly occurring fungal infection affecting the skin, hair, or nails, caused by dermatophytes.1Typical symptoms include itching, a ring-shaped rash, redness, scaliness, cracked skin, and/or hair loss. The transmission o...
Yuan Y, Vinh B, Hunt RH: Nonhealed rate of moderate-severe (LA Classification Grade C and D) erosive esophagitis after 4–8 weeks proton pump inhibitors (PPIs): evidence of an unmet need. Gastroenterology 2009, 136(Suppl):A440.
Neutropenia was the most common toxicity during induction therapy (26% expressed grade 3-4) whereas esophagitis was the most common toxicity during concurrent phase (17.3% expressed grade 3-4); toxicities were manageable. Induction chemotherapy by docetaxel and cisplatin followed by weekly docetaxel ...
Patients receiving sodium alginate had fewer onsets of G3 esophagitis; however, differences compared with arm C were not significant (A vs. C: p = 0.46; B vs. C: p = 0.28). The rates of grade 3 or worse non-hematologic toxicities besides esophagitis were 29%, 26%, and 43% in arms...
The dosimetric parameters predictive of esophagitis are: mean dose, V20Gy, V30Gy, V40Gy, V45Gy and V50Gy. Amifostine is the only drug to have a proven radioprotective efficacy (evidence level C, ESMO recommendation grade III). The medical management of esophagitis associates a diet excluding ...
1 This patient presented with the most common SPN symptoms of abdominal pain and early satiety, but the mass appearing extrapancreatic on imaging posed a diagnostic challenge, as extrapancreatic SPNs are rare.2-3 Fortunately, SPNs are low-grade malignant neoplasms that respond well to surgical ...
反流性食管炎（Reflux esophagitis，RE），也称为胃食管反流病，是由食管抗反流功能下降、食管清除能力降低以及食管黏膜防御屏障作用减弱等因素引起的食管黏膜破损。此疾病通常伴随食管下括约肌异常和胃食管交界处结构改变，如食管裂孔疝，弱化了抗反流机制，使得胃内容物容易发生反流。此外，糖尿病、硬皮病等病症也常常...