Melanoma is a highly aggressive malignant skin tumor characterized by rapid growth and early metastasis. Surgical resection is currently still the main treatment. There are still some challenges in the early diagnosis and thorough surgical resection of melanoma, which affect the prognosis of patients. To date, great progress has been made in the application of fluorescent probes to the diagnosis and surgical resection of, as well as sentinel lymph node localization and resection in melanoma. Fluorescent probes have advantages of good chemical stability, less adverse effects, high specificity, high accuracy and visualization, and may provid new ideas for the diagnosis and treatment of melanoma.

About 50％ to 60％ of the stage Ⅱ-Ⅲ colorectal carcinoma patient suffer from liver metastases.Recently,there is a research hotspot on how to improve the prognosis of the colorectal carcinoma liver metastases (CRLM) patient.It can elucidate the way how the carcinoma cells transfer from the original tumor to the liver,through establishing a CRLM animal model.An ideal CRLM animal model should perfectly mimic the total procedure of the metastases pathway,including the change of the cytology behavior and the development of the tumor biology.Besides,the model should be practical,tumor-predictable and accord with the ethical consideration.Until now,there is not an ideal CRLM animal model can perfectly match those conditions.This review goes through the advantages and disadvantages of different CRLM animal model methods used for research.

This study was aimed to analyze the composition principles of prescriptions for sequela of apoplexy collected in the CNKI by the Traditional Chinese Medicine Inheritance Platform (TCMIP), in order to provide a reference for clinical selection of medication. Prescriptions for the sequela of apoplexy treatment in CNKI were collected. Based on the TCMIP, the medication rules of prescription were analyzed by data mining method after data entry. A total of 190 prescriptions involving 204 herbs for sequela of apoplexy treatment were screened and studied. The herbs for blood-activating andqi-tonifying were used with higher frequency. There were 36 commonly used herbal pairs. The herb pair of Dang-Gui(Radix Angelicae Sinensis) andHuang-Qi (Radix Astragali) was with the highest frequency. The herbal combination with three types of herbs wasDi-Long (Pheretima),Dang-Gui andHuang-Qi. The herbal combination with four types of herbs wasChuan-Xiong (Rhizoma Chuanxiong),Di-Long,Dang-Gui andHuang-Qi. The analysis on association rule showed thatChuan-Xiong,Dang-Gui,Tao-Ren (Semen Persicae),Hong-Hua(Flos carthami) andHuang-Qiwere often combined with each other. A total of 48 core combinations and 11 new prescriptions were mined. It was concluded that the prescriptions for sequela of apoplexy were mainly composed with herbs for blood-activating,qi-tonifying and collateral-dredging. According to the flavor and meridian tropism theory of Chinese medicine, the herbal medication selection in the prescription was mostly warm and hot in nature, sweet and pungent flavor, and the meridian tropism of the liver and spleen meridian.

The clinical data of a WHIM syndrome child with cardiac malformation as the first symptom in December 2017 in Beijing Children′s Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University was retrospectively analyzed.A 5-year-old female patient presented with cardiac malformation, neutropenia and recurrent infection.Heterozygous mutation(c.1000C>T) was detected in CXCR4 gene.Echocardiography and CT exhibited cardiac malformation.WHIM syndrome is very rare, and it was the first case with cardiac malformation as the first manifestation in China, thus hoping to improve clinicians′ understanding of this disease.

Objective To evaluate the effect of prefilling blood reservoir with mannitol-adeninephosphate MAP) solution on the damage to erythrocytes in intraoperative salvaged blood in patients.Methods One hundred and fifty blood samples were collected from 150 patients who were scheduled for elective spinal surgery requiring blood salvage,and were equally and randomly divided into 5 groups (n =30 each) using a random number table:group N,group N1,group N2,group M1 and group M2.The blood reservoir was not prefilled before surgery in group N,while the blood reservoirs in N1,N2,M1 and M2 groups were prefilled with normal saline (NS) 100 ml,NS 200 ml,MAP solution 100 ml and MAP solution 200 ml,respectively.Blood sauples were obtained for erythrocyte osmotic fragility test after the salvaged blood was washed,and hemolysis rates in different concentrations of hypotonic NaCl solution were calculated.The concentration of free hemoglobin in the clear supernatant liquid (FHb) of washed blood placed for 0 h (T0),1 h (T1) and 2 h (T2) were detected.Results Compared with N and N1 groups,the hemolysis rate of washed erythrocytes under 0.48％ 0.68％ NaCl solutions was significantly decreased,the concentration of FHb at T1 was decreased,and no significant change was found in FHb at T2 in group M1.Compared with N and N2 groups,the haemolysis rates of washed erythrocytes under 0.48％-0.68％ NaCl solutions were significantly decreased,and the concentrations of FHb at T1,2 were decreased in group M2.The concentration of FHb was significantly lower at T2 in group M2 than in group M1.Conclusion Prefilling blood reservoir with MAP solution can mitigate the damage to erythrocytes in the intraoperative salvaged blood in patients,and the efficacy of prefilling of 200 ml is superior to that of prefilling of 100 ml.

Objective To evaluate effects of artesunate on rosacea-like inflammation in mouse models.Methods Twenty-five male BALB/c mice aged 7 weeks were injected subcutaneously with 40 μ1 antibacterial peptide LL-37 into the back once every 12 hours for 4 sessions to establish mouse models with rosacea-like inflammation.These 25 mice were randomly and equally divided into 5 groups:after each injection of LL-37,model group were gavaged with sodium chloride physiological solution,treatment groups gavaged with 25,50 and 100 mg/kg artesunate solution separately,and positive control group gavaged with 30 mg/kg doxycycline hydrochloride solution.Another 5 healthy mice injected subcutaneously with pure water into the back for 4 sessions served as blank control group.Forty-eight hours after the initial injection of LL-37,changes in skin lesions and the intensity of erythema were assessed.Skin tissues at the dorsal injection site were resected and subjected to HE staining,the tissue structure was observed and the number of inflammatory cells was counted.Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was performed to estimate the activity of myeloperoxidase (MPO) in skin lesions.Results The model group showed obvious inflammatory reactions,and significantly increased erythema score (3.20 ± 0.84),inflammatory cell count (517.27 ± 99.43) and MPO activity (0.57 ± 0.08) compared with the blank control group (all P ＜ 0.01).The positive control group showed significantly decreased erythema score (1.60 ± 0.89),inflammatory cell count (270.93 ± 124.63) and MPO activity (0.40 ± 0.05) compared with the model group (P ＜ 0.05,0.01,0.01,respectively).Moreover,the erythema score,inflammatory cell counts and MPO activity were all significantly lower in 50-(1.80 ± 0.84,286.00 ± 33.72,0.43 ± 0.05,respectively) and 100-mg/kg artesunate groups (1.40 ± 0.55,258.00 ± 36.44,0.40 ± 0.06,respectively) than in the model group (P ＜ 0.05 or 0.01).However,there were no significant differences in the erythema score,inflammatory cell count and MPO activity between 50-or 100-mg/kg artesunate group and the positive control group (P ＞ 0.05).Conclusion Artesunate can inhibit rosacea-like inflammatory reactions in mouse models,especially the middle-and high-dose artesunate.

Objective To investigate the efficacy of microbubble-enhanced sonothrombolysis on platelet-rich thrombi (PRT) and erythrocyte-rich thrombi (ERT) in different ages.Methods PRT and ERT in different ages were prepared both in vitro and in vivo of common carotid artery in rats.All the participants were divided into 8 groups with 4 in vitro and another 4 in vivo experiment,including PRT 3 h,PRT 24 h,ERT 3 h,ERT 24h in vitro groups and PRT 3 h,PRT 24 h,ERT 3 h,ERT 24 h in vivo groups.Microbubble-enhanced sonothrombolysis was carried out in both in vitro and in vivo experiments,and the ultrasonic images were collected.The components of PRT and ERT were identified by histopathological examination.The percentage increase of luminal cross sectional area and lytic ratio in vitro,and the recanalization rate and mean blood flow velocity of common carotid artery in vivo were mainly analyzed.Results After sonothrombolysis,both in vitro and in vivo experiment showed there was no statistically significant difference of the percentage increase of luminal cross sectional area ([121.12 ± 13.21]％ vs [130.09 ± 15.34]％),lytic ratio ([39.83± 7.09]％ vs [42.14±5.17]％),recanalization rate (83.33％ vs 91.67％) and blood flow velocity of common carotid artery ([0.21±0.02]m/s vs [0.22±0.01]m/s) between PRT 3 h group and ERT 3 h group (both P＞0.05).PRT 24 h group compared with EPR 24 h group,PRT 24 h group compared with PRT 3 h group,as well as ERT 24 h group compared with ERT 3 h group,the percent increase of luminal cross sectional area,lytic ratio,recanalization rate and blood flow velocity of common carotid artery reduced (all P＜0.05).Conclusion The efficacy of microbubble-enhanced sonothrombolysis on PRT and ERT in vitro and in vivo of of rat common carotid artery model decrease with the increase of thrombus age,especially for the PRT.

Objective To analyze the clinical efficacy of the laparoscopic breast-conserving surgery combined with radiofrequency ablation to treat the early-stage breast cancer.Methods We collected 55 patients diagnosed early-stage breast cancer in retrospect,which started from January 2014 to December 2016.Twenty-seven of them were performed the laparoscopic breast-conserving surgery combined with radiofrequency ablation while others went through laparoscopic breast-conserving surgery without radiofrequency ablation.Meanwhile,we adopted the student t-test and the chi-square test to compare results of two groups.More specific,the main indexes of this study are including the post-operative local recurrence,the incidence of fat liquefaction or the incision-infection,operation time,post-operative hospital stay and the hospitalization expense.Results The laparoscopic breast-conserving surgery combined with radiofrequency ablation group had low local-recurrence than the laparoscopic breastconserving surgery group (0 and 7.69％).Additionally,there were no statistical differences between two groups in the incidence of fat liquefaction.However,The laparoscopic breast-conserving surgery combined with radiofrequency ablation group had more hospitalization expense than the laparoscopic breast-conserving surgery group [(4.1 ± 0.7) ten thousand yuan and (2.3 ± 0.6) ten thousand yuan,P ＜ 0.05].Conclusions Although the laparoscopic breast-conserving surgery combined with radiofrequency ablation group remarkably increased the hospitalization expense because of the utility of the radiofrequency ablation related apparatus,it may provide the probability of shaving more residual tumor cell and may low down the recurrence,especially not rising up the incidence of the post-operative fat liquefaction.Therefore,this surgery method might be one of the potential developments in the minimal-invasive of early stage breast cancer.

Objective To explore the potential clinical value of mean platelet volume (MPV) in predicting the curative effect of TACE for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Methods The clinical data of 263 HCC patients, who were treated with TACE at authors' hospital during the period from January 2012 to June 2016, were collected. The MPV data before initial TACE, before and after each repeated TACE were recorded. The time of tumor progression (TTP; referring to mRECIST standard), was documented. Based on the MPV determined before initial TACE, the patients were divided into low - MPV group and high - MPV group, and the TTP between the two groups was compared. Results A total of 263 patients were enrolled in this study. In HCC patients, the MPV determined before initial TACE was (9. 45±1. 24) fL, while the MPV determined after initial TACE was (9. 01±1. 11) fL, the difference between the two was statistically significant (t=4. 344, P＜0. 05). The MPV determined at the time when HCC lesion first developed progression was (9. 38±1. 16) fL, which was significantly different with the MPV of (9. 01±1. 11) fL that was obtained after initial TACE (t=3. 498, P＜0. 05). Taking the median value of MPV determined before initial TACE (9. 3 fL) as the cutoff value, the patients were divided into the low - MPV group and the high - MPV group according to patient' s MPV determined before initial TACE. Statistically significant difference in the time when HCC lesion first developed progression existed between the low - MPV group and the high - MPV group (P＜0. 05). COX regression analysis showed that BCLC stage B and C, MPV value before initial TACE were the independent risk predictors of tumor progression. Conclusion The pre-TACE and post-TACE MPV values in HCC patients treated with TACE has certain clinical significance in evaluating the curative effect of TACE. Moreover, MPV value before initial TACE has some value in predicting the time of HCC progression after TACE. (J Intervent Radiol, 2018, 27:257-262)