AIM: To identify patients with a high-risk of having a synchronous cancer among gastric cancer patients. METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed the prospective ga
A 62-year-old man with progressive thickening of the gallbladder wall visited our outpatient clinic. The biliary amylase level in the common bile duct was 19900
AIM: To evaluate the usefulness of various computed tomography (CT) findings including distribution of infiltration or fluid collection in differentiating the m
AIM: To determine the current status in various aspects of gastric cancer patients and to find out the clinical correlation with prognostic role of serum interl
AIM: Although the pathogenic mechanism underlying autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) remains unclear, the immune system is thought to be critical for the progression of
Background It has been identified that in patients with pre-eclampsia, several factors were released into the serum, which can regulate the proliferation of vas
AIM: To determine the efficacy of an interferon alpha and ribavirin combination treatment for Japanese patients infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) of genotyp