Background The tumor microenvironment, including cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs),
plays various clinical roles in cancer growth. CAFs are a heterogeneous population and …

Background Tumor microenvironment including fibrosis has a pivotal role in cancer growth
and distant metastasis. Fibrosis is a known risk factor for carcinogenesis, but its biological …

Objectives This study aimed to investigate the effect of early administration of delayed-release
high-titer pancrelipase. Methods The medical records of 120 patients who had undergone …

Background/Aim: The role of CD44 in gastric cancer-derived peritoneal metastasis is currently
unknown. It was previously shown that viable, tumorigenic cancer cells are spilled into the …

Background: Colonic cancer is associated with a low incidence of peritoneal metastasis
compared with gastric cancer; however, the reason for this remains unclear. In this study, a …

Pancreatic acinar cell carcinoma is a rare tumor of the pancreas, and patients with such
tumors rarely have a pathological complete response to treatment. Herein, we present a case …

Background Dropped gallstones during laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) sometimes
induce postoperative infectious complications. However, pleural empyema rarely occurs as a …

Purpose This study examined whether abdominal plain computed tomography (CT) can
predict surgical difficulty in acute cholecystitis. Methods We retrospectively analyzed 84 …

Objectives We investigated how preoperative sarcopenia and perioperative muscle mass
changes affect postoperative nutritional parameters in patients undergoing pancreatectomy. …

We have fabricated experimental memory cell arrays with a unit cell size of 0.29 /spl mu/m/sup
2/ (0.38 /spl mu/m/spl times/0.76 /spl mu/m). The layout was designed for a half-pitch 8F/…