Hyperthermia with Chemotherapy for Unresectable Gastric Cancer in a Patient with a Vagus Nerve Stimulator Implant: A Case Report

Hirozumi Sawai; Shuhei Ueno; Yoshimi Yamaguchi; Yuka Suzuki; Akemi Murata; Enami Suganuma; Kazuya Yamamoto; Hiromasa Kuzuya; Shuji Koide; Masaaki Kurimoto; Takeshi Yanagi; Hajime Koide; Atsushi Kamiya

doi:10.12659/AJCR.931564

17 August 2021 : Case report Japan

Hyperthermia with Chemotherapy for Unresectable Gastric Cancer in a Patient with a Vagus Nerve Stimulator Implant: A Case Report

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Hirozumi Sawai^1ABCDEF*, Shuhei Ueno^1ABCD, Yoshimi Yamaguchi^2BCDF, Yuka Suzuki^2BCD, Akemi Murata^2BCD, Enami Suganuma^2BCD, Kazuya Yamamoto^2ABCD, Hiromasa Kuzuya^1BCDF, Shuji Koide^1ABCF, Masaaki Kurimoto^1ABCD, Takeshi Yanagi

^3BCDF, Hajime Koide^1BCDF, Atsushi Kamiya^1ABCF

DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.931564

Am J Case Rep 2021; 22:e931564

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Figure 2. EGD and EUS findings. EGD before chemotherapy showing Borrmann type 3 cancers at the minor curvature of the gastric corpus (A) and the posterior wall of the gastric antrum (B). EUS showing a tumor mass with regional lymph nodes 27 mm in diameter (white arrowheads) between the posterior wall of the antrum and the head and body of the pancreas (C). The tumor in the gastric antrum is seen invading (white arrow) the head and body of the pancreas (D). EGD – esophagogastroduodenoscopy; EUS – endoscopic ultrasonography; Panc – pancreatic body; PV – portal vein; SV – splenic vein.

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Hyperthermia with Chemotherapy for Unresectable Gastric Cancer in a Patient with a Vagus Nerve Stimulator Implant: A Case Report

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