No abstract available.
Cystectomy* ; Lasers, Gas* ; Volatilization*

Verrucous hemangioma is a variety of capillary, cavernous or mixed hemangioma that can develop into acanthosis, hyperkeratosis, and papillomatosis. Most verrucous hemangiomas appear on the lower extremities, and are present at birth or appear during infancy. It is important, from a prognostic and therapeutic point of view, to make a correct diagnosis between verrucous hemangioma and angiokeratoma circumscriptum. The former needs a large and deep excision, while the latter responds to the common means of physical therapy. We observed two patients who showed typical clinical and histopathological findings of verrucous hemangioma. Treatment was by wide sugical excision and skin graft. The two patients responded positively to this tratment.
Angiokeratoma ; Capillaries ; Diagnosis ; Hemangioma* ; Humans ; Lower Extremity ; Papilloma ; Parturition ; Skin ; Transplants

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Pregnancy* ; Statistics as Topic*

No abstract available.
Biopsy* ; Humans

No abstract available.
Adult* ; Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation* ; Humans ; Multiple Organ Failure* ; Still's Disease, Adult-Onset*

Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) includes early development of up to thousands of colorectal adenoma and of colonic adenocarcinoma in all untreated cases. Moreover, a variety of extracolonic manifestation are seen. Several reports have demontrated a high incidence of papillry carcinoma of thyroid. We experienced a case of familial adenomatous polyposis, presenting with thyoid papillry carcinoma, and reported with a brief review of literatures.
Adenocarcinoma ; Adenoma ; Adenomatous Polyposis Coli* ; Carcinoma, Papillary* ; Colon ; Incidence ; Thyroid Gland* ; Thyroid Neoplasms

A double gallbladder is a condition that arises during the fetal period due to the abnormal differentiation of presumptive gallbladder cells, which causes two separate gallbladders, each with their own cystic duct. Most cases are diagnosed incidentally during surgery. Detailed preoperative investigations (ultrasound, oral cholecystography, intravenous cholangiography, CT, ERCP and MRCP) are required for an accurate preoperative diagnosis before considering a cholecystectomy to avoid inadvertent damage to the biliary ductal system and to overlook the second gallbladder during surgery. A total cholecystectomy, with removal of both gallbladders, should be the appropriate treatment for a double gallbladder to avoid complications and a reoperation. We report a patient with an accessory gallbladder, originating from right hepatic duct, and also discuss the characeristics of this rare anomaly.
Cholangiography ; Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde ; Cholecystectomy ; Cholecystography ; Cystic Duct ; Diagnosis ; Gallbladder* ; Hepatic Duct, Common* ; Humans ; Reoperation

The most serious problem of ruptured hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the difficulty to achieve curative resection due to unplanned emergency operations, the hemodynamic instability, the frequent intrahepatic recurrence and the peritoneal seeding after resection for primary ruptured hepatocelluar carcinoma. Recent articles have suggested that well planned elective hepatic resection after hemodynamic stabilization of a ruptured HCC patient has a good prognosis, and repeat hepatic resection of recurred HCC has good prognosis when the liver function is good. We report here on patient who survived a long time with recurred HCC after 3 bouts of repeated hepatic resection for intrahepatic recurrences and 1 bout of right hemicolectomy for an omental recurrence. (ED note: now it shows good.)
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular ; Emergencies ; Hemodynamics ; Humans ; Liver ; Prognosis ; Recurrence*

PURPOSE: To describe technical methods for functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study with arterial spin labeling (ASL) compared to blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) technique and discuss the potential of ASL for research and clinical practice. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Task-based (n = 1) and resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI) (n = 20) were performed using ASL and BOLD techniques. Results of both techniques were compared. RESULTS: For task-based fMRI with finger-tapping, the primary motor cortex of the contralateral frontal lobe and the ipsilateral cerebellum were activated by both BOLD and ASL fMRI. For rs-fMRI of sensorimotor network, functional connectivity showed similar results between BOLD and ASL. CONCLUSION: ASL technique has potential application in clinical and research fields because all brain perfusion imaging, CBF measurement, and rs-fMRI study can be performed in a single acquisition.
Brain ; Cerebellum ; Frontal Lobe ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging* ; Motor Cortex ; Oxygen ; Perfusion Imaging

PURPOSE: To describe technical methods for functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study with arterial spin labeling (ASL) compared to blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) technique and discuss the potential of ASL for research and clinical practice. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Task-based (n = 1) and resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI) (n = 20) were performed using ASL and BOLD techniques. Results of both techniques were compared. RESULTS: For task-based fMRI with finger-tapping, the primary motor cortex of the contralateral frontal lobe and the ipsilateral cerebellum were activated by both BOLD and ASL fMRI. For rs-fMRI of sensorimotor network, functional connectivity showed similar results between BOLD and ASL. CONCLUSION: ASL technique has potential application in clinical and research fields because all brain perfusion imaging, CBF measurement, and rs-fMRI study can be performed in a single acquisition.
Brain ; Cerebellum ; Frontal Lobe ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging* ; Motor Cortex ; Oxygen ; Perfusion Imaging