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OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to describe the ultrasonographic findings of angioleiomyoma based on pathological subtypes. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Thirty-nine patients with subcutaneous angioleiomyomas in the extremities were retrospectively reviewed by two radiologists and a pathologist. Sonographic images were analyzed to evaluate each tumor's anatomic location, size, shape, margin, heterogeneity, echogenicity, associated findings, and vascularity. RESULTS: Angioleiomyomas were divided into 3 subtypes: capillary (n = 16), venous (n = 22), and cavernous (n = 1). The one cavernous angioleiomyoma was a hypoechoic mass with rich vascularity. Hypoechogenicity was more frequently observed for venous tumors (77.3%) than for capillary tumors (43.8%), and isoechogenicity was more frequently observed for capillary tumors (56.2%) than for venous tumors (22.7%). Moderate vascularity was more frequently observed for venous tumors (59.1%) than for capillary tumors (12.5%), and little vascularity was more frequently observed for capillary tumors (62.5%) than for venous tumors (13.6%). The aforementioned findings including echogenicity (p = 0.034) and vascularity (p = 0.003) were statistically significant. CONCLUSION: Awareness of sonographic findings of angioleiomyomas based on pathologic subtypes could be helpful for diagnosing angioleiomyoma and could increase diagnostic accuracy for superficial soft-tissue masses in our practice.
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Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of laparoscopic technique in the treatment of refractory adhesive intestinal obstruction. Methods In a retrospective matched?pair analysis, 68 patients of re?fractory adhesive intestinal obstruction whose relapsed more than 3 times were included in the research. All patients were treated with laparoscopic operation or continued follow?up observation after conservative treatment from Janu?ary 2011 to January 2016. The patients were divided into 2 groups, laparoscopic surgery (32 cases) and observation group (36 cases), to contrast the recurrence rate and safety of the two types of treatment. Results The recurrence rate of laparoscopic surgery group was significantly lower in the observation group (18.8%vs. 77.8%, P<0.05). Re?fractory adhesive intestinal obstruction is further divided into Mixed type, Patchy adhesion type and Cable Belt Com?pression type, in the laparoscopic surgery subgroup analysis, hybrid recurrence rate (66.7%, 4/6 cases) was signifi?cantly higher than that of patchy adhesion type (10.0%, 1/10 cases) and cord compression type (6.3%, 1/16 cases). Conclusion Laparoscopic operation is safe and feasible in the treatment of refractory adhesive intestinal obstruc?tion, and then it can effectively reduce the recurrence rate of refractory adhesive intestinal obstruction;the curative effect is closely related to the type of adhesion.
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Objective To investigate the clinical characteristics of hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) patients . Method The clinical data of HL patients in our hospital from January 1, 2003 to December 31, 2012 were analyzed retrospectively. The contents of investigation included gender, age, pathological type, first symptom, the incidence locations, clinical stages, extranodal involvement locations, ECOG and treatments.Results A total of 143 cases of HL were included, the M/F ratio was 2.5:1 with a median age of 37 years (11~73years) . The most frequent subtypes of HL were mixed cellular (34.3%) and nodular sclerosis (28.0%) . The nodal lymphomas accounted for 97.2%, while the extranodal lymphomas occupied 2.1%. The nodal lymphomas with extranodal invasion accounted for 29.5%, and the common locations were spleen (14.4%), lung (5.8%) and bone (5.0%) . The most clinical stage of all patients was stage Ⅰ/Ⅱ (60.8%), The differences were no significant in gender, pathological type, first symptom, the incidence locations and the effective rate of the first-line treatment (P>0.05), while were statistically significant in B symptoms, ECOG and treatments betweenⅠ/Ⅱgroups andⅢ/Ⅳgroups (P<0.05) . Conclusions In this group,the incidence of HL patients were mainly found in middle-aged people, males were lager than females.The pathological type, first symptom and the incidence locations had no obvious effect on clinical stage. The clinical stage had no obvious influence on the effective rate of the first-line treatment.
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OBJECTIVE: The endometrial cancer can be divided into two large groups on the base of carcinogenesis according to the pathologic findings. The hormone induced cancer group(type 1) represents the cancers developed under the effects of unopposed estrogen. And the other group(type 2) can be developed by the mechanisms of divergent variable events such as mutations or gene deletions. These two different types show definite differences in clinical characteristics. METHODS: Clinical features of the 43 patients who were diagnosed and were treated as endometrial cancer in Gynecologic department of Ajou University Hospital from June 1994 to November 2000 were evaluated according to the pathologic findings. 22 patients of type 1 and 17 patients of type 2 were classified and analysed statistically. RESULTS: Age, cell types, grade, cancer stage, endometrial thickness, invasion depth of uterine walls were definitely different with statistic significance. The lymphovascular space invasion, the number of lymph node metastasis, pap smear of cervix, adnexal involvement, diabetes, hypertension, CA125, gravida, height were not different between two groups statistically in correlations. BMI shown marked difference but had no statistical significance. CONCLUSIONS: The classification of endometrial cancer into the two types is very significant because it can allow avoidance of preceding risk factors and can provide the alteration of treatment tendency and the expectation of benign or malignant prognosis, clinically.