1.Clinical application of regionai cerebral blood flow SPECT imaging in systemic lupus erythematosus patients complicated with neuropsychiatric disorders
Juan QIU ; Changhua LIANG ; Xiaoxia ZUO ; Haoyu DENG ; Zhengliang TAN
Chinese Journal of Rheumatology 2009;13(3):172-174
Objecfive To observe the changes of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients with neuropsychiatrie disorders and evaluate rCBF SPECT imaging in the detection of neuropsychiatric problems in SLE patients.Methods Twenty neuropsychiatrie SLE patients were enrolled in the study and were performed SPECT rCBF imaging anti CT/MRI scans,respectively.Twenty SLE patients without neuropsychiatrie manifestatiuns (SLE) and 20 healthy volunteers also underwent SPECT rCBF imaging as controls.Semiquantitative analysis was conducted as designed by selecting 3 consecutive crosssections and delineating ROI,which generated HQ and the results were compared between with SLE and controls.Results SPECT rCBF findings were almormal in 20 NPSLE.in which 19 of the 20 with abnormal SPECT findings showed focal uptake defects the other patient showed increased foeal uptake.Four N PSLE patients had ahnormal CT/MRI scans findings.Compared with the methods of rCBF and CT/MRI imaging,the difference was significant (P<0.01).Nineteen SLE patients without neuropsychiatrie manifestations had normal SPECT findings.the other 1 patient showed focal uptake defect.SPECT findings were all normal in 20 healthy volunteers.Temporal cortex was the most commonly involved region,followed by frontal cortex.Specific values generated from semiquantitative analysis (HQ) of temporal and frontal regions in neruopsychiatrie SLE patients were lower than that in SLE patients and healthy volunteers (P<0.01 and P<0.05).Conclusion SPECT rCBF imaging has the potential to be a sensitive tool to detect the neuropsyehiatric disordersin SLE patients,and has important value in helping for early diagnosis and therapy.Hypoperfusion on ECD-SPECT under the territory of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) is the most common observation,and which temporal and frontal regions are the most frequently involved regions in neruopsychiatrie SLE patients.
2.Clinicopathologic features and prognosis of gastric cancer in 230 young adults
Luchuan CHEN ; Shenghong WEI ; Zaisheng YE ; Yangming LI ; Changhua ZUO ; Yi WANG ; Jun XIAO ; Zhenmeng LIN ; Yi ZENG ; Xiaoling CHEN
Chinese Journal of General Surgery 2017;32(4):289-292
Objective To summarize the clinicopathological characteristics and analyze the prognostic factors of young gastric cancer patients.Methods Data of 1 801 gastric cancer patients (divided into ≤45 years of age group,n =230 cases,and > 45 years old group,n =1 571 cases) undergoing gastrectomy in Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery,Fujian Provincial Cancer Hospital,from June 1999 to November 2015 were retrospectively analyzed.Results Compared with the elderly patients,those ≤45 years old were more female with higher percentage of signet ring cell carcinoma,M1 and non radical resection while less in the upper stomach area (P < 0.05),but there was no statistical difference in tumor size,depth of invasion,lymph node metastasis,Borrmann type,TNM stage,peripheral nerve involvement,cancer embolus,positive margin.Prognostic analysis showed the difference of 5-years survival rate was not statistically significant between young and elderly patients.But the 5-year survival rate in young patients with signet ring cell carcinoma undergoingt radical gastrectomy was better than that of elderly patients (P =0.047,0.038).Multivariate regression analysis showed that M staging and surgical modality were independent prognostic factors for these ≤ 45 years old patients.Conclusion Although there are special clinicopathological features of gastric cancer in young patients,but the postoperative prognosis is relatively the same as those elderly patients.