Supported by the Zhejiang Medical Science and Technology Project,No.2022KY1325 and No.2023KY381.
BACKGROUND Intraductal oncocytic papillary neoplasm(IOPN)of the pancreas is an extremely rare pancreatic tumor,with only sporadic cases reported in the literature.IOPN is difficult to diagnose and highly prone to misd...
A crucial aspect of prostate cancer grading, especially in low- and intermediate-risk cancer, is the accurate identification of Gleason pattern 4 glands, which includes ill-formed or fused glands. However, there is no...
Introduction: Intraductal carcinoma is often associated with high-grade, high-stage adenocarcinoma. Its frequency is variable and it is considered a poor prognostic factor. In our context, when prostatic carcinoma is ...
The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Research Committee,Faculty of Medicine,Chulalongkorn University(No.0482/65);registered in the Thai Clinical Trials Registry(TCTR20211109002).
BACKGROUND Volatile organic compounds(VOCs)are a promising potential biomarker that may be able to identify the presence of cancers.AIM To identify exhaled breath VOCs that distinguish pancreatic ductal adenocar-cinom...
BACKGROUND Endoscopic management is the first-line therapy for post-liver-transplant anas-tomotic strictures.Although the optimal duration of treatment with plastic stents has been reported to be 8-12 months,data on s...
BACKGROUND Intraductal tubulopapillary neoplasm(ITPN)is a rare disease accounting for approximately 3%of all intraductal pancreatic tumors,with intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm(IPMN)being one of the most common...
Intraductal papillary neoplasms of the bile duct(IPNBs)represent a rare variant of biliary tumors characterized by a papillary growth within the bile duct lumen.Since their first description in 2001,several classifica...
Recently,endoscopic intraductal radiofrequency ablation(ID-RFA)has attracted attention as a local treatment method for malignant biliary obstruction(MBO).IDRFA causes coagulative necrosis of the tumor tissue in the st...
This study was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid for Sci-entific Research(#17K16813 to Hongo H and#17K11158 E.20H03817 to Kosaka T)from the Ministry of Education,Culture,Sports,Science,and Technology of Japan;The study was supported in part by research grant to Kosaka T from the Takeda Science Foundation,Japan.
Dear editor:Intraductalcarcinomaoftheprostate(IDC-P)ischaracterized by expansive growth of cancer cells in normal prostatic ducts with basal cell layer and associated with high grade invasive prostate cancer(PCa).Howe...
The differential diagnosis between benign and malignant biliary strictures is challenging and requires a multidisciplinary approach with the use of serum biomarkers,imaging techniques,and several modalities of endosco...