Journal of Clinical Case Reports

Kang Hyun Lee

Publications

• Case Report
  Experience of Successful Treatment for an Intractable Advanced Ureter Cancer with Extra ureteral Extension using Omental Flap Transposition: A Case Report
  Author(s): Sung Han Kim, Sung Chan Park, Kwan Ho Cho, Sun Ho Kim, Jae Young Joung, Jinsoo Chung, Weon Seo Park, Kang Hyun Lee and Ho Kyung SeoSung Han Kim, Sung Chan Park, Kwan Ho Cho, Sun Ho Kim, Jae Young Joung, Jinsoo Chung, Weon Seo Park, Kang Hyun Lee and Ho Kyung Seo
  
  We report on a 61-year-old female case of advanced ureter cancer using omental flap transposition (OFT) with tumor reduction surgery before adjuvant pelvic irradiation to prolong survival and to prevent pelvic complication from irradiation, resulting in a stable disease state for one year without serious major morbidity. The patient presented with growing pelvic pain and constipation for three months without gross hematuria or flank pain. She was diagnosed with stage IV (T4N2M0) left distal ureter cancer extending to the left iliac vessels. After three cycles of neoadjuvant combination chemotherapy of gemcitabine-cisplatin, left nephroureterectomy with a resection of the bladder cuff and ipsilateral salphingo-oophorectomy with lymph node dissection, and segmental colon resection with OFT were performed. Then, 30 adjuvant radiations at a fractionated dose of 6880 cGy on left-sided pelv.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-7920.1000413

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