{"title":"Ectopic meningioma of neck: A case report","authors":"Peng Sun, Si Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.asjsur.2024.08.081","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asjsur.2024.08.081","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55454,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Surgery","volume":"48 2","pages":"Pages 1224-1225"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142115076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rong Gao, Jian-Kang Zeng, Yi-Zhang Tong, Chun-Yu Ma
{"title":"Epithelioid malignant mesothelioma presenting as a retroperitoneal mass: Report of a rare case","authors":"Rong Gao, Jian-Kang Zeng, Yi-Zhang Tong, Chun-Yu Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.asjsur.2024.08.052","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asjsur.2024.08.052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55454,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Surgery","volume":"48 2","pages":"Pages 1166-1167"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142115078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wendi Kang, Junqing Xi , Jijun Zhang, Zhengqiang Yang
{"title":"Interventional embolization of the fistula from right inferior phrenic artery to pulmonary vein","authors":"Wendi Kang, Junqing Xi , Jijun Zhang, Zhengqiang Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.asjsur.2024.08.126","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asjsur.2024.08.126","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55454,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Surgery","volume":"48 2","pages":"Pages 1067-1068"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142115085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jianzhe Chen, Tian Xia, Huaiquan Zuo, Guangrui Pan
{"title":"Nipple adenoma in a prepubescent boy: A case report","authors":"Jianzhe Chen, Tian Xia, Huaiquan Zuo, Guangrui Pan","doi":"10.1016/j.asjsur.2024.08.049","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asjsur.2024.08.049","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55454,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Surgery","volume":"48 2","pages":"Pages 1160-1161"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142115092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clinical impact of the prognostic nutritional index and skeletal muscle index for the incompletion of adjuvant chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer","authors":"Hiromitsu Maehira, Haruki Mori, Nobuhito Nitta, Takeru Maekawa, Yusuke Nishina, Hajime Ishikawa, Katsushi Takebayashi, Sachiko Kaida, Toru Miyake, Masaji Tani","doi":"10.1016/j.asjsur.2024.10.151","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asjsur.2024.10.151","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Adjuvant chemotherapy is a standard therapeutic option for resected pancreatic cancer. However, the risk factors for incompletion of adjuvant chemotherapy remain unclear.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 72 patients who underwent radical pancreatectomy and received S-1 adjuvant chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer. The patients were assigned to two groups according to their completion or incompletion of adjuvant chemotherapy. We compared the perioperative skeletal muscle mass index (SMI) and nutritional status using prognostic nutritional index (PNI) between the two groups.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The completion and incompletion groups included 46 (64 %) and 26 (36 %) patients, respectively. Overall survival was shorter in the incompletion group than in the completion group (median survival time, 20.2 months vs. 42.0 months; log-rank, p = 0.018). Decreasing rate of PNI (12.7 % vs. 0.2 %, p = 0.010) and decreasing rate of SMI (26.9 % vs. 12.5 %, p = 0.001) were significantly larger in the incompletion group than in the completion group. Multivariate analysis showed that decreasing rate of PNI (p = 0.016), decreasing rate of SMI (p = 0.013), and old age (p = 0.049) were independent risk factors for incompletion of S-1 adjuvant chemotherapy. Regarding the time-series variations, PNI improved from 1 to 3 months after pancreatectomy in the completion group (p = 0.006). Furthermore, the decreasing slope of SMI was stronger in the incompletion group.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Postoperative decrease of PNI and SMI is associated with the incompletion of S-1 adjuvant chemotherapy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55454,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Surgery","volume":"48 2","pages":"Pages 1002-1009"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142633582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Asymptomatic cholecystitis and its controversial issues in biliary surgery","authors":"Sergey Yurievich Muraviev, Evgeniy Alexandrovich Tarabrin, Alexey Leonidovich Shestakov, Irina Alexandrovna Tarasova, Ivan Alexandrovich Markov, Vadim Sergeevich Razumovsky, Anna Victorovna Ananichuk, Andrey Pavlovich Fabrika, Valeria Alexandrovna Stener, Mehrshad Ebrahimnezhad, Denis Vasilievich Orlushin, Anna Nikolaevna Zavyalova","doi":"10.1016/j.asjsur.2024.10.145","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asjsur.2024.10.145","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Gallbladder stones are present in 10–20 % of the population of Western countries, and the incidence rate has almost tripled over the past 30 years. Asymptomatic cholecystitis is more common than it is mentioned in the literature. Approximately 80 % of the GI have no clinical manifestations. In most cases, the disease will remain asymptomatic throughout life.</div><div>The problem of asymptomatic cholecystitis is often hushed up and ignored. Surgeons try to avoid examining this pathology. Works on asymptomatic cholecystitis are not only few, but also scattered. At the same time, there is no uniformity in the literature. Since the tactics of treating such patients still does not have an unambiguous approach. Many surgeons doubt the decision on surgical treatment, a smaller part chooses cholecystectomy at the same time, without substantiating the indications for it. That is why most cases of postcholecystectomy syndrome occur in patients operated on for asymptomatic cholecystitis.</div><div>The unwillingness to discover the secret of stone formation and asymptomatic cholecystitis in humans when concretions in the gallbladder are detected without reference to surgery, to indicate the trajectory of the examination, leads to a number of tactical errors, preserving the risk of PES, and erasing practical recommendations for the management of such patients. The solution to this issue lies in a thorough study of each stage of the tactical search in patients with asymptomatic cholecystitis, which will determine a new strategy in biliary surgery.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55454,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Surgery","volume":"48 2","pages":"Pages 996-1001"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142741450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of aging on hepatic reserve after preoperative portal vein embolization in hepatectomy for perihilar cholangiocarcinoma","authors":"Shinichi Nakanuma , Takahiro Ogi , Hiroaki Sugita , Ryosuke Gabata , Tomokazu Tokoro , Ryohei Takei , Kaichiro Kato , Satoshi Takada , Mitsuyoshi Okazaki , Isamu Makino , Shintaro Yagi","doi":"10.1016/j.asjsur.2024.10.152","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asjsur.2024.10.152","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>In the current situation of an increasing older adult population with perihilar cholangiocarcinoma (PHCC), the benefits and risks of surgical treatment of PHCC in older people remain controversial. Portal vein embolization (PVE) is a useful preoperative procedure to improve hepatic reserve in the future remnant liver (FRL) and avoid postoperative liver failure after extended hepatectomy for PHCC. This study aimed to evaluate the influence of aging on PVE.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We enrolled 25 patients who underwent right hepatectomy with percutaneous transhepatic PVE. Participants aged <70 years (n = 13) and ≥70 years (n = 12) were compared; correlation coefficients were evaluated using all cases. The FRL volume/total liver volume (FRLV/TLV) ratio and the indocyanine green (ICG) clearance rate (ICG-K) fraction of FRL to total liver (ICG-Krem) were analyzed as FRL hepatic reserves.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>FRLV/TLV ratio increased after PVE in <70 years and ≥70 years groups (p = 0.002 and p = 0.013, respectively). The change in ICG-K values from before to after PVE varied between both groups (p = 0.040). The ICG-Krem value after PVE increased only in the <70 years group (p = 0.009). A review of all cases showed a negative correlation between the change (after - before PVE) in the ICG-K and ICG-Krem values and age (r = −0.4827, p = 0.0145 and r = −0.4328, p = 0.0306, respectively).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>This study showed aging suppresses hepatic reserve improvement in the FRL, particularly in ICG clearance after PVE in PHCC cases.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55454,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Surgery","volume":"48 2","pages":"Pages 1010-1015"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142840240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma in the extrahepatic bile duct: A case report and literature review","authors":"Jing Li, Qiang Kang, Yue-hua Li, Yang Ke","doi":"10.1016/j.asjsur.2024.08.036","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asjsur.2024.08.036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55454,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Surgery","volume":"48 2","pages":"Pages 1132-1133"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142057348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comment on “Major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCEs) in patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) treated with pharmaco-invasive strategy of half-dose recombinant human prourokinase (PHDP): Two-year outcomes”","authors":"Bo Shang","doi":"10.1016/j.asjsur.2024.07.352","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asjsur.2024.07.352","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55454,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Surgery","volume":"48 2","pages":"Pages 1148-1149"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142094141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}