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Thirty-one cases of esophageal achalasia were admitted to Chang Gung Memorial Hospital between 1981 and 1986. Eighteen male patients and 13 female patients, aged from 12 to 84 years old with an average of 39 years old, were included in this series. Their chief complaints were dysphagia (83.9%), postprandial vomiting (12.9%), and food regurgitation (3.2%). The symptoms are present for an average of 2.8 years (mostly between 0.5 and 2 years) before the diagnosis is made. The clinical signs and symptoms included dysphagia, postprandial vomiting, loss of body weight, food regurgitation, abdominal fullness, cough, chest pain, belching, and choking. The tentative diagnoses at admission were achalasia, esophageal stricture R/O achalasia, achalasia R/O esophageal cancer, and esophageal cancer. Laboratory examinations showed 90.3% with absence of the gastric air shadow in chest P-A view X-ray film. Typical birds-beat deformity in barium-meal esophagogram was seen in 100%, and during esophagoscopic examination, 25% (6/24) were without abnormal findings, 66.7% (16/24) had liquid and food stasis, 8.3% (2/24) had esophagitis. Manometry of esophagus was performed in 5 cases, all had positive abnormal patterns detected, such as aperistalsis of esophageal body and incomplete relaxation of lower esophageal sphincter, but only 60% showed hypertensive lower esophageal sphincter. In these 31 cases, 3 cases refused any treatment, 9 cases received medical therapy including drug therapy(9) and pneumatic esophageal dilatation(8), and 19 cases received surgical operations. Better swallowing improvement was obtained in the surgically treated group than in the medically treated patients during follow up period.
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PMID:[A clinical analysis of esophageal achalasia]. 277 66

A 47-year-old man was referred to our hospital because of a 2-month history of dry cough, 2-kg weight loss, and a feeling of abdominal fullness. The PET-CT scan depicts the intense standard uptake values (SUVs) of the anterior and subphrenic lymphnodes, and intraperitoneal cavity, especially in the omentum, while, no uptake was found in the pleural cavity. Based on the pathological findings of the open lung biopsy specimens, he was diagnosed with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma of epithelioid type with thoracic metastasis. The present case demonstrated the some of the limitations of PET-CT in the diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma, which failed to detect pleural involvement despite aggressive invasion by this tumor.
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PMID:A case of malignant peritoneal mesothelioma revealed with limitation of PET-CT in the diagnosis of thoracic metastasis. 2337 60

We report a patient with supraclavicular lymph node metastasis from an undetectable adenocarcinoma of the transverse colon, who presented with cough and was diagnosed with typhoid fever, bronchitis as well as liver metastasis. There were an abdominal fullness, weight loss, constipation, pencil-like stool with mucous and blood, low-grade fever, bone ache, and tea-color urine. The first colonoscopy revealed lymphocytic ileitis and microscopic findings also showed lymphocytic ileitis. Abdominal USG and CT revealed liver metastasis of unknown origin. Based on the clinical sign and symptoms, we suspected that colorectal carcinoma was the primary site. Then, the second colonoscopy was performed and it revealed a small polyp, which was followed with a biopsy and the result supported a well-differentiated colon adenocarcinoma. Similar result was also revealed by the histopathological evaluation. This is an unusual case of liver and supraclavicular lymph node metastasis arising from a small polyp adenocacinoma of the transverse colon.
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PMID:Supraclavicular Lymphnodes: Unusual Manifestation of Metastase Adenocarcinoma Colon. 2693 3

Neurogenic tumours of the mediastinum in adults occur most often at the posterior mediastinum, majority of which are benign of nerve sheath in origin. A 72-year-old woman, known asthmatic, presented with chronic symptoms of hoarseness, dysphagia, chest heaviness, easy fatigability, cough, epigastric pain, feeling of abdominal fullness and choking with food intake and at a supine position. Treated for other disorders, routine chest X-ray incidentally found a homogenous convex radiodensity at the right paratracheal area; mass which was also observed with CT and 18F-fludeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/CT scan studies. Mediastinoscopy with biopsy showed spindle to plump cells with strong S100 positivity. Thoracoscopic surgery done to completely excise the mass found it to be benign schwannoma.
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PMID:Middle mediastinal schwannoma concealed by asthma and GORD. 2953 96

Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium(CRP, Chinese name: Chenpi) is one of the most famous edible traditional Chinese medicines(TCMs). CRP was first recorded as top grade TCM in Shennong Bencao Jing attributing to the benefits such as regulating Qi, tonifying spleen, eliminating dampness and eliminating phlegm, and has been widely utilized for the treatments of abdominal fullness and distention, vomiting and diarrhea, as well as phlegm cough. CRP is also widely popular as spice in food industry. Because of the wide cultivation, a number of brands that exhibit extensive price range can be found in the market, resulting in a great challenge for grading. Herein, an attempt was made to in-depth chemome profiling for the sake of providing meaningful information of the universal quality control of CRP. A new core-shell column packed with adamantylethyl substituted silica gel particles was deployed for chromatographic separations and IT-TOF-MS that is advantageous at providing abundant high resolution molecular and fragment ions was employed for qualitative detection. A total of 62 components were observed and 61 ones were structurally annotated according to proposing mass fragmentation patterns, matching with reference compounds and relevant databases, and the chemical families included flavone, limonin, etc. In particular, ten compounds bearing 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutarate substitute were detected from CRP for the first time. Above all, the chemical profile of CRP was characterized and the findings are meaningful for the in-depth quality assessment and efficacy material clarification of CRP.
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PMID:[Chemome profiling of Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium using UHPLC-IT-TOF-MS]. 3223 92

Cancer pain was observed in 131 of 160 patients with advanced cancer living at home. Oxycodone or morphine was administered to patients suffering from cancer pain or fentanyl transdermal patch was switched to morphine. Subsequently, 70 patients were found to have alleviation of symptoms such as nausea/vomiting, dyspnea, abdominal fullness, general fatigue, cough, and urinary urgency in addition to pain. Pain was defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage by the International Association for the Study of Pain. This definition of pain is cited in a lot of books. However, the author was unable to intervene with detailed reports of unpleasant sensations associated with tissue damage. Therefore, here the author reports about an unpleasant sensation caused by tissue damage of cancer that was alleviated by oxycodone or morphine.
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PMID:[Analysis of Symptoms Relieved in Addition to Pain after Administration of Oxycodone or Morphine to Patients with Advanced Cancer Living at Home]. 3240 22