Liposarcoma is a rare malignant tumor type and surgical resection is the gold standard treatment. The present study reported on the case of a 51-year-old woman who presented with a mass in the left upper abdomen. Computed tomography revealed a 32-cm giant retroperitoneal liposarcoma. Complete tumor resection was performed without the removal of other organs. Postoperative pathological examination indicated retroperitoneal well-differentiated liposarcoma and immunohistochemistry revealed S-100(−), MDM2(+), vimentin(+), CDK4(+), p16(+) and STAT6(+) results. The patient recovered well after the surgery. Complete tumor resection during the first surgery is key to cure liposarcoma. The present case report will be helpful for clinical oncologists to fully understand giant retroperitoneal liposarcoma and treat it accordingly. 相似文献
Hydration of fat-free mass (FFM), defined as the ratio of total body water (TBW) to FFM (TBW/FFM), is stable at 0.739 in adult mammals. However, an increase in the TBW/FFM ratio is common in hemodialysis (HD) patients. This study aimed to evaluate the determinants of TBW/FFM and investigate its predictive value for the prognosis of all-cause mortality in HD patients.We enrolled patients undergoing maintenance HD between July 2020 and May 2021. All patients were prospectively followed until death, HD dropout, or until the end of the study (November 1, 2021). A forward stepwise multivariable linear regression analyses was performed to test the independent relationship between TBW/FMM and other clinical variables. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was used to discriminate the TBW/FFM with respect to 180-day mortality.Of the 106 patients, 42 had elevated TBW/FFM levels. Multiple linear regression analysis revealed that the TBW/FFM ratio was significantly associated with extracellular water (ECW)/TBW (standardized regression coefficient [β = 1.131, P < .001], phase angle (PhA) [β = 0.453, P < .001], and sex (β = 0.440, P < .001). We calculated the ROC curve (AUC) of TBW/FFM, ECW, ECW/TBW, and intracellular water (ICW) to compare the discriminatory capacities of these parameters in predicting 180-day mortality. The AUC for TBW/FFM (AUC = 0.849; 95% CI, 0.745–0.953) exhibited better discriminatory potential than ECW (AUC = 0.562; 0.410–0.714), although it had a similar predictive potential as the ECW/TBW ratio (AUC = 0.831; 0.731–0.932). High TBW/FFM can be used as a valuable prognostic index for predicting all-cause mortality in patients on HD. 相似文献
An ultrasensitive luteolin electrochemical sensor was constructed by co-electropolymerization of nitrogen-doped graphene (N-GR) and hydroxymethylated-3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT-MeOH) using cyclic voltammetry (CV). Because of the synergistic effects of the large surface area, superior electrical conductivity, and large amount of chemically active sites of N-GR together with the satisfactory water solubility and high conductivity of poly(hydroxymethylated-3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT-MeOH), the N-GR–PEDOT-MeOH nanocomposite sensor exhibited high electrochemical sensitivity towards luteolin with a wide linear range of 0.005–10.06 μM and low detection limit of 0.05 nM. Satisfactory reproducibility, selectivity, and stability were exhibited by this electrochemical sensor. Additionally, the proposed sensor was employed for trace-level analysis of luteolin in actual samples of herbal medicines (thyme (Thymus vulgaris L.), honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica Thunb.), and Tibetan Duyiwei (Lamiophlomis rotata (Benth.) Kudo)) with satisfactory results.A sensitive and selective electrochemical sensor was constructed by one-step co-electropolymerization of hydroxymethylated-3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene and nitrogen-doped graphene for the trace-level analysis of luteolin in Thymus vulgaris, Lonicera japonica, and Lamiophlomis rotata.相似文献