The patient was a 70-year-old male whose chief complaints were obstructive jaundice and weight loss. Abdominal imaging studies showed a 2.5 cm sized mass at the distal common bile duct, which was suggestive of bile duct cancer. Eccentric enhancing wall thickening in the transverse colon was also shown, suggesting concomitant colon cancer. A colonoscopy revealed a lumen-encircling ulcerofungatin...

A 54-year-old male patient was scheduled for an elective pylorus-preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy combined with video-assisted thoracic surgery at our hospital. This patient had a history of intubation failure in other institutions due to an epiglottic cyst. An airway assessment of the patient was normal. A preoperative laryngoscopy revealed a bulging epiglottic mass covering most of the epig...

11 September 1989 Abstract A randomised controlled multicentre trial was performed in 160 patients with gastric ulcer, proved by endoscopy and biopsy, to compare ulcer healing with sucralfate and ranitidine (double blind double dummy design) and to assess the effect of maintenance treatment with sucralfate on ulcer recurrence (double blind placebo controlied design). The healing rates were simi...

A 57-year-old man presented with fatigue and 2-week history of melena. Medical history included acromegaly and a desmoid tumor invading the superior mesenteric artery, causing a cardiac arrest 11 years earlier. Exam revealed no abdominal tenderness, melena in the rectum, and a hemoglobin of 4.8 gm/dL. An esophagogastroduodenoscopy and colonoscopy revealed no source of bleeding. Capsule endoscop...