Arterial thrombosis associated with ulcerative colitis usually occurs in the postoperative period with a good response to anticoagulant therapy and embolectomy. Our patient was a 14-year-old girl with ulcerative colitis who presented with bilateral pulsless extremities, which did not respond to medical treatment and embolectomy. Subsequent colectomy did not save her limbs. The repeated thrombos...

BACKGROUND Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism (PE) is a rare, but not exceptional presentation of soft tissue sarcomas (STSs). Due to the remarkable difference in the incidence between DVT or PE and STSs, this type of STS presentation is usually associated with a considerable delay in tumor diagnosis and treatment. CASE PRESENTATION We describe two cases of STS who presented w...

We demonstrated previously that selective thrombosis of the blood vessels of solid tumors in mice can be achieved by targeting the extracellular domain of tissue factor by means of an antibody to an experimentally induced marker on tumor vascular endothelium. In the present study, we extend this finding to a naturally occurring marker of tumor vascular endothelium, vascular cell adhesion molecu...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine the utility of preoperative CT in predicting early recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma after partial hepatic resection. MATERIALS AND METHODS Preoperative three-phase helical CT scans in 53 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma were retrospectively reviewed by two radiologists. In 27 patients (group I), HCC had recurred within six month...

The patient was a male in his 70s with a history of chronic renal failure and dilated cardiomyopathy. In January 2011, he underwent abdominoperineal resection of the rectum, right hepatic lobectomy, and resection of a portal vein tumor thrombus with a diagnosis of rectal cancer and metastatic liver cancer accompanied by portal vein tumor thrombosis. Although 5-fluorouracil + l-leucovorin therap...

We used a database of 4139 Taiwanese HCC patients to take a new approach (Network Phenotyping Strategy) to HCC subset identification. Individual parameters for liver function tests, complete blood count, portal vein thrombosis, AFP levels and clinical demographics of age, gender, hepatitis or alcohol consumption, were considered within the whole context of complete relationships, being networke...

the acute coronary syndrome due to the left main coronary artery (lmca) thrombosis is a clinically rare and catastrophic event.   we describe a young man ( smoker, alcoholic, and drug abuser) with a history of recent surgery and typical chest pain who had non-occlusive lmca thrombosis in coronary angiography. the thrombosis was successfully treated with two 180 µ/kg intracoronary boluses of ept...

background: venous thromboembolism, which comprises deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism and is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality among patients with cancer. the aim of the present study was to report a rare presentation of arterial thrombosis after venous thrombosis in a patient with gastric cancer. report of the case: a 45 year-old female patient with locally advanced gast...

OBJECTIVE Vascular reconstruction can facilitate pancreas tumor resection, but optimal methods of reconstruction are not well studied. We report our results for portal vein reconstruction (PVR) for pancreatic resection and determinants of postoperative patency. METHODS We identified 173 patients with PVR in a prospective database of 6522 patients who underwent pancreatic resection at our hosp...

In the last ten years new techniques, such as percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI) and radiofrequency ablation (RFA), have been developed for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Portal vein involvement is a complication of HCC and the role of surgical resection for HCC with tumor thrombi in the portal veins is controversial. Here we present the case of a 58-year-old man, with Child...