A patient with intermittent right lumbar pain for more than one month and aggravating for one week was reported. The right laparoscopic radical nephrectomy was performed, and fibrosarcoma of the right kidney was diagnosed. The patient refused further radiotherapy or chemotherapy and was discharged on the 11th after surgery. One year after operation, the patient underwent chest CT, and subdural tumor of right lobe of liver was detected. A surgery was performed in another hospital, and liver metastasis from right renal fibrosarcoma was diagnosed. He was alive four months after operation.

Objective:To explore the impacts of thermotherapy combined with gemcitabine on the biological behavior of tongue squamous cell carcinoma cells.Methods:Human tongue squamous cell carcinoma Tca8113 cells were divided into the control group (blank control), gemcitabine group, thermotherapy group (heated in an incubator at 43℃ for 1 h and then incubated at 37℃ for 24 h) and thermotherapy + gemcitabine group. The proliferation ability of Tca8113 cells was assessed by EdU staining and CCK-8 assay. Cell apoptosis and cell cycle of Tca8113 cells were detected by flow cytometry. The invasion of Tca8113 cells was determined by Transwell chamber assay. The expression levels of cyclin D1 (CyclinD1), Bcl-2-associated X protein (Bax), matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-9, phosphorylated histone H2AX (γH2AX) and Nijmegen breakage syndrome 1 (NBS1) proteins in Tca8113 cells were measured by Western blot. The changes of tumor mass and volume were detected by xenograft tumor in vivo test in nude mice. Multi-group comparison was performed by one-way ANOVA. Two group comparison was conducted by SNK- q test. Results:Compared with the control group, EdU positive cell percentage, OD 450 value, invasive cell number, CyclinD1, MMP-9 and NBS1 protein expression of Tca8113 cells were decreased, whereas the apoptosis rate, the expression of Bax and γH2AX proteins were increased in the gemcitabine, thermotherapy and thermotherapy + gemcitabine groups ( q=4.45-72.06, all P<0.001). Compared with the control group, the proportion of G 0/G 1 phase cells was decreased, whereas the proportion of S and G 2/M phase cells was increased in the gemcitabine and thermotherapy + gemcitabine groups, the proportion of G 0/G 1 phase cells was decreased and the proportion of G 2/M phase cells was increased in the hyperthermia group ( q=10.36-61.09, all P<0.001). Compared with the gemcitabine and thermotherapy groups, EdU positive cell percentage, OD 450 value, G 0/G 1 phase cell proportion, invasive cell number, CyclinD1, MMP-9 and NBS1 protein expression of Tca8113 cells were decreased, whereas apoptosis rate, S, G 2/M phase cell proportion, Bax and γH2AX protein expression were increased in the thermotherapy + gemcitabine group ( q=4.45-28.73, all P<0.001). Xenograft tumor in vivo test in nude mice showed that the tumor volume and mass of nude mice in the gemcitabine, thermotherapy, and thermotherapy + gemcitabine groups were decreased compared with those in the control group ( q=5.58-73.02, all P<0.001). Compared with the gemcitabine and thermotherapy groups, the tumor volume and mass in the thermotherapy + gemcitabine group were decreased ( q=5.58-21.45, all P<0.001). Conclusion:The combination of thermotherapy and gemcitabine can inhibit the proliferation and invasion, block the cell cycle, and induce cell apoptosis of Tca8113 cells.

Objective:To explore the feasibility of automatic assessment of abdominal and pelvic CT radiation dose index (CTDI vol) based on deep learning models. Methods:A retrospective analysis was conducted on clinical abdominal and pelvic CT data collected continuously from February 2021 to February 2022. A total of 1 084 sets of patient images were obtained using equipment of Siemens SOMATOM Definition Flash CT, Philips iCT, and GE lightspeed VCT. The volume CT dose index (CTDI vol) prediction model consisted of two functional modules: organ segmentation and dose prediction. Based on the result of actual scanning area segmentation in the abdominal and pelvic area, CTDI vol was evaluated automatically by dose regression prediction module. The images of 1 084 patients included in the study were randomly divided into a training set of 784, a validation set of 196 and a test set of 104. Dice coefficient was used to evaluate the abdominal and pelvic segmentation performance of the hybrid model, and accurate number proportion and root-mean-square logarithm error (RMSLE) were used as the evaluation index of the CTDI vol estimation model performance. Results:In the test set, the Dice coefficient of the deep learning model in the task of CT abdominal image segmentation was as high as 0.998, and the RMSLE of the CTDI vol regression model in estimation of radiation dose was 9.41%, with an accuracy rate of 92%. Scatter plot analysis showed that some CTDI vol estimates had significant errors, indicating that the model might need to be further optimized in these situations. Conclusions:The deep learning models can accurately and automatically segment CT abdominal images and estimate radiation dose, which can be used for clinical radiation dose monitoring and management.

A female patient who was admitted to the hospital on March 4, 2020 due to the right kidney mass for 4 days by physical examination. Ultrasound examination revealed a single space-occupying lesion in the right kidney, and further examination of the abdominal enhanced CT and three-dimensional reconstruction showed two lesions in the right kidney. The retroperitoneal laparoscopic partial nephrectomy was carried out. The pathological diagnosis were renal leiomyoma and renal eosinophiloma, respectively. After 1 year follow-up, no recurrence or metastasis was found.

The segmental testicular infarction rate is extremely low, usually showing acute testicular pain, which needs to be distinguished from testicular tumor, testicular torsion, etc. Only a few cases were reported. In this study, two cases were presented. Case one, a 13-year-old boy, was admitted to hospital due to right testicular swelling and pain for 3 days. Presenting with vomiting once on May 5, 2017.He underwent right scrotum exploration and testicular fixation. Testicular pain was disappeared and discharged on the five days operation. There was no obvious abnormality in color doppler ultrasound after one year after operation. Another patient, a 26-year-old man, was admitted to hospital due to left testicular swelling and pain for 6 on March 15, 2018. He was treated with Xue Saitong, natra heparin calcium and Maizhiling tablets. After seven days of treatment, the testicular pain improved and were discharged. One month after discharge, the patient had no pain or discomfort, and the color Doppler ultrasound showed that the left subtesticular polar-like low-isoecho, and a small amount of star-like blood flow signal around.