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Objective: To clarify the endoscopic changes prior to corticosteroid therapy in Cronkhite-Canada syndrome (CCS) patients and to explore the correlation between endoscopic features and clinical characteristics. Methods: A total of 24 CCS patients who were hospitalized in Peking Union
A 67-year-old man with nausea, appetite loss, frequent diarrhea and severe weight loss presented with alopecia, skin hyperpigmentation and onychodystrophy. Laboratory investigations showed mild anemia, hypoproteinemia and hypoalbuminemia. Colonoscopy identified the numerous, hyperemic and sessile
Cancer research illustrated that combinatorial studies can provide significant improvement in safety and effectiveness over the monotherapy regimens. A combination of two drugs may restrain precancerous colon polyps, opening a new possible opportunity for chemoprevention of colon cancer. In this
Protein losing enteropathy (PLE), a very rare disease with hypoproteinemia and edema as its characteristics, is caused by various diseases resulting in protein depletion from the gut. The diagnosis is relatively difficult due to its complex pathogeneses. The present paper reported a case whose
Neuroendocrine carcinoma (NEC) originates with neuroendocrine cells and is mainly found in the pancreas, lungs and gastrointestinal tract. We surgically treated a case of primary unknown NEC with only cerebral metastasis that mimicked hemangioblastoma. Recurrence was seen at the We systematically evaluated the clinicopathologic features and outcome of a rare, unusual variant of ischemic colitis that presents as a mass lesion mimicking malignancy on imaging or colonoscopy. A retrospective search was performed for cases with a histologic diagnosis of ischemic colitis and a
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this article is to comprehensively survey all CT-detected ileocolic and colocolic intussusceptions at a cancer institute.
METHODS
Using the free-text string "intus," the radiology information database of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center was searched over a 13.5-year