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Difficult Closure of Open-Window Thoracostomy After Drainage of an Infected Pulmonary Bulla. [PDF]

Respirol Case Rep
This report describes an elderly man with an infected pulmonary bulla successfully treated with percutaneous drainage followed by open‐window thoracostomy (OWT) for persistent air leakage. Despite infection control, repeated failures of window closure occurred due to newly appearing bronchial fistulae.
Sato K, Sato T, Miyajima M, Uehara H.
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Longitudinal Impact of Urinary Diversion on Health-Related Quality of Life After Radical Cystectomy: A Multicenter Study in Japan. [PDF]

Cancer Sci
This multicenter prospective study examined the impact of urinary diversion on HRQOL among bladder cancer patients who underwent radical cystectomy. Evaluation using the BCI clarified changes in HRQOL related to urinary, bowel, and sexual domains before surgery and at 3, 6, and 12 months postoperatively.
Yamada S, Sato M, Osawa T, Harabayashi T, Miki J, Kobayashi T, Hashine K, Kawashima A, Matsumoto T, Mochizuki T, Taoka R, Urabe F, Tatarano S, Sawada A, Kojima T, Takahashi A, Yokomizo A, Suekane S, Hashimoto K, Hashimoto Y, Yatsuda J, Morita K, Kobayashi K, Satake Y, Sazawa A, Matsui Y, Ito YM, Shimizu S, Fukuhara S, Nishiyama H, Kitamura H, Shinohara N, Japanese Urological Oncology Group.   +32 more
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Effects of activation of an alcohol metabolic gene, cigarette smoking, and alcohol intake on the incidence of metachronous gastric cancer in patients who underwent endoscopic resection for gastric cancer: A multicenter retrospective pilot study

JGH Open, 2023
Background and Aim Metachronous gastric cancer (GC) frequently occurs in patients who have undergone endoscopic resection (ER) for GC. We evaluated the risk for development of metachronous GC following ER for GC based on genetic polymorphisms for alcohol
Satoshi Abiko, Yuichi Shimizu, Marin Ishikawa, Masaki Inoue, Katsuma Nakajima, Risako Kohya, Koji Hirata, Kazuharu Suzuki, Ryo Sugiura, Shuichi Miyamoto, Kenji Kinoshita, Kazuteru Hatanaka, Yoshiya Yamamoto, Hirohito Naruse, Takuto Miyagishima, Naoya Sakamoto   +15 more
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Generation mechanism of large later phases of the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami causing damages in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan

Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2019
The 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake generated a large tsunami that caused catastrophic damage along the Pacific coast of Japan. The major portion of the damage along the Pacific coast of Tohoku in Japan was mainly caused by the first few cycles of tsunami ...
Yuichiro Tanioka, Mizuho Shibata, Yusuke Yamanaka, Aditya Riadi Gusman, Kei Ioki   +4 more
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Pseudocirrhosis due to liver metastasis from lung adenocarcinoma

Thoracic Cancer, 2021
Pseudocirrhosis is a radiological diagnosis of cirrhosis without histological evidence and occurs as a complication of liver metastases from solid tumors.
Naoki Shijubou, Toshiyuki Sumi, Yoshiko Keira, Hideaki Shiraishi, Yuta Nagahisa, Keigo Matsuura, Motoki Sekikawa, Yuichi Yamada, Hisashi Nakata, Hirofumi Chiba   +9 more
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Stent Graft Migration Due to Structural Failure Nine Months After Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair Using Valiant Navion

EJVES Vascular Forum, 2023
Objective: This report presents a case of stent graft migration that was suspected to have occurred due to failure of the Valiant Navion device (Medtronic Inc., Santa Rosa, CA, USA).
Keisuke Kamada, Masami Shingaki, Keitaro Nakanishi, Kazunori Ishikawa, Atsuhiro Koya, Kiyohumi Morishita   +5 more
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Pulmonary artery occlusion post immunotherapy for hilar node‐positive lung cancer

Thoracic Cancer, 2023
We present the case of a patient who developed pulmonary artery occlusion following immune‐checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy for non‐small cell lung cancer. A 69‐year‐old man with squamous cell carcinoma (yc‐T1cN0M0), initially diagnosed at c‐stage IVA (
Makoto Tada, Hirofumi Uehara, Takeshi Ohyu, Atsushi Watanabe   +3 more
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Rule Value Reinforcement Learning for Cognitive Agents [PDF]

, 2006
RVRL (Rule Value Reinforcement Learning) is a new algorithm which extends an existing learning framework that models the environment of a situated agent using a probabilistic rule representation. The algorithm attaches values to learned rules by adapting
Child, C. H. T., Stathis, K.
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Trade and Conflict at the Japanese Frontier: Hakodate as a Treaty Port, 1854–1884

The Journal of Transcultural Studies, 2018
Sitting in calm and deep waters, neatly tucked away from the sometimes perilous streams of the North Pacific and Japan Sea, Hakodate was in some ways an obvious choice as a port to be opened.
Steven Ivings
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Lung adenocarcinoma with tumor resolution and dystrophic calcification after salvage surgery following immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy: A case report

Thoracic Cancer, 2020
A clinical trial of immune checkpoint inhibitors for advanced non‐small cell lung cancer reported an overall survival plateau with a long tail to the survival curve, suggesting that immune checkpoint inhibitors prolong survival.
Toshiyuki Sumi, Hirofumi Uehara, Toshiaki Masaoka, Makoto Tada, Yoshiko Keira, Koki Kamada, Naoki Shijubou, Yuichi Yamada, Hisashi Nakata, Yuji Mori, Hirofumi Chiba   +10 more
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