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Mikuni Y, Tani M, Ichikawa N, Matsui H, Emoto S, Yoshida T, Otsuka T, Homma S, Norihiko T, Taketomi A. Early-stage sigmoid colon cancer resection followed by liver metastasis recurrence 1 year later and mesenteric recurrence more than 5 years later: a case report. Surg Case Rep 2023; 9:151. [PMID: 37650976 PMCID: PMC10471527 DOI: 10.1186/s40792-023-01731-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2023] [Accepted: 08/10/2023] [Indexed: 09/01/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Early-stage colorectal cancer (CRC) is often treated endoscopically, but additional surgical resection may be considered depending on pathological findings. CASE PRESENTATION A 73-year-old man was found to have early-stage sigmoid colon cancer by colonoscopy during a medical examination, and endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) was performed. The lesion was a 7-mm-sized sessile polyp, and the pathological diagnosis was well-differentiated tubular adenocarcinoma, pT1 (submucosal invasion of 400 μm), with no lymphovascular invasion, low budding grade, and negative horizontal and vertical margins. Therefore, the patient was observed without postoperative treatment. One year later, a computed tomography (CT) scan showed multiple liver metastases. After five courses of preoperative chemotherapy with folinic acid, 5-fluorouracil and oxaliplatin (FOLFOX) and panitumumab, liver metastases were reduced. The patient underwent extended right hepatic lobectomy. The pathological finding was well-to-moderately differentiated tubular adenocarcinoma, and immunohistochemistry findings were consistent with liver metastases from sigmoid colon cancer. Postoperatively, the patient received five courses adjuvant chemotherapy with FOLFOX. Although the patient had been recurrence-free for 5 years after liver resection, a CT scan revealed a nodular lesion in the sigmoid mesentery. Positron emission tomography (PET) showed abnormal accumulation in the same lesion. Therefore, the mesenteric nodules diagnosed as lymph metastasis and recurrence of sigmoid colon cancer and performed laparoscopic sigmoid colon resection with lymph node dissection. The pathological findings showed that the recurrent lesion in the mesentery formed a nodular infiltrate with venous, lymphatic, and neural invasion, but lymph node structures were not found, and it was assumed to be metastasis or recurrence due to lymphovascular invasion. The pathologic specimen of the sigmoid colon had no neoplastic lesions, which are considered to be a local recurrence on the mucosal surface. After sigmoid colectomy, adjuvant chemotherapy with CapeOX was conducted, and the patient has been recurrence-free for 13 months at present. CONCLUSION Even early-stage CRCs that have no pathological indications for additional resection have risks of metastases and recurrences, and we may need to consider that the criteria for additional resection should not be limited to pathological findings alone.
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- Yumeto Mikuni
- Department of Gastroenterological Surgery I, Hokkaido University, North 15 West 7, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8638 Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterological Surgery I, Hokkaido University, North 15 West 7, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8638 Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterological Surgery I, Hokkaido University, North 15 West 7, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8638 Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterological Surgery I, Hokkaido University, North 15 West 7, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8638 Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterological Surgery I, Hokkaido University, North 15 West 7, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8638 Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterological Surgery I, Hokkaido University, North 15 West 7, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8638 Japan
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- Department of Surgical Pathology, Hokkaido University Hospital, North 14 West 5, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8648 Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterological Surgery I, Hokkaido University, North 15 West 7, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8638 Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterological Surgery I, Hokkaido University, North 15 West 7, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8638 Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterological Surgery I, Hokkaido University, North 15 West 7, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8638 Japan
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Kinoshita M, Mikuni Y, Kudo M, Mori M, Horie E, Teramoto T, Matsushima T. The effects of combination therapy with niceritrol and pravastatin on hyperlipidaemia. J Int Med Res 2002; 30:271-81. [PMID: 12166344 DOI: 10.1177/147323000203000308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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In the present study, we evaluated the effects of combination therapy with niceritrol and pravastatin in patients with hyperlipidaemia. A total of 62 patients with hyperlipidaemia, defined as total cholesterol levels above 220 mg/dl or triglyceride levels above 150 mg/dl, were recruited. Patients were divided into two groups: Group N received initial therapy with niceritrol 750-1500 mg/day, and those in Group P, pravastatin 10 mg/day. After 8 weeks, pravastatin 10 mg/day was added to the Group N treatment regimen for a further 8 weeks, while patients in Group P were given niceritrol 750-1500 mg/day in addition to pravastatin for 8 weeks. After the 8-week combination therapy study period, total cholesterol levels were 209.6 mg/dl in Group N and 220.7 mg/dl in Group P. Decreased triglyceride and lipoprotein(a) levels and increased high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, neither of which were achieved by pravastatin administration alone, were achieved with the combination of pravastatin and niceritrol. We conclude that when a single lipid-lowering drug fails to show therapeutic value, attempting combination therapy with a nicotinic acid preparation and a 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitor (statin) is worthwhile.
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- M Kinoshita
- Department of Internal Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
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Ueno K, Ohta M, Morita H, Mikuni Y, Nakajima S, Yamamoto K, Isono K. Trehalose sensitivity in Drosophila correlates with mutations in and expression of the gustatory receptor gene Gr5a. Curr Biol 2001; 11:1451-5. [PMID: 11566105 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(01)00450-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Drosophila taste gene Tre is located on the distal X chromosome and controls gustatory sensitivity to a subset of sugars [1, 2]. Two adjacent, seven-transmembrane domain genes near the Tre locus are candidate genes for Tre. One (CG3171) encodes a rhodopsin family G protein receptor [3, 4], and the other (Gr5a) is a member of a chemosensory gene family encoding a putative gustatory receptor [5-7]. We carried out molecular analyses of mutations in Tre to elucidate their involvement in the gustatory phenotype. Here, we show that Tre mutations induced by P element-mediated genomic deletions disrupt Gr5a gene organization and the expression of Gr5a mRNA, while disruption of the CG3171 gene or its expression was not always associated with mutations in Tre. In flies with the spontaneous mutation Tre(01), both CG3171 and Gr5a mRNAs are transcribed. Coding sequences of these two candidate genes were compared among various strains. A total of three polymorphic sites leading to amino acid changes in CG3171 were not correlated with the gustatory phenotype. Among four nonsynonymous sites in Gr5a, a single nucleotide polymorphism leading to an Ala218Thr substitution in the predicted second intracellular loop cosegregated with Tre(01). Taken together, the mutation analyses support that Gr5a is allelic to Tre.
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- K Ueno
- Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
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Kinoshita M, Shimazu N, Fujita M, Fujimaki Y, Kojima K, Mikuni Y, Horie E, Teramoto T. Doxazosin, an alpha1-adrenergic antihypertensive agent, decreases serum oxidized LDL. Am J Hypertens 2001; 14:267-70. [PMID: 11281239 DOI: 10.1016/s0895-7061(00)01263-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Oxidized low-density lipoprotein (ox-LDL) is well known to play an important role in atherogenesis through the recruitment of monocytes into vessel walls and the deposition of cholesterol ester in the macrophages, which leads to the formation of lipid-rich plaque. It was assumed that only trace amounts of ox-LDL were present in plasma because the half-life of ox-LDL was only a few minutes. Recently, through the use of a monoclonal antibody against ox-LDL, a quantitative method to measure serum ox-LDL concentration has been developed. Metabolites of doxazosin, an alpha1-adrenergic antihypertensive agent, have been reported to inhibit oxidation of LDL in vitro. In this study, we investigated the in vivo effect of doxazosin on LDL oxidation using this new method to measure serum ox-LDL concentration. After the administration of doxazosin for 1 to 2 months, serum concentration of ox-LDL decreased significantly (P < .05). Although the reduction of ox-LDL concentration does not strictly indicate doxazosin's antiatherosclerotic effect, it may constitute one of doxazosin's additional weapons beside lowering blood pressure and serum lipid values in the prevention of atherosclerosis.
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- M Kinoshita
- Department of Internal Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
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