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Successful resection of liver metastasis detected by exacerbation of skin symptom in a patient with dermatomyositis accompanied by rectal cancer: a case report and literature review

Abstract Background Dermatomyositis (DM) is a rare syndrome that belongs to the group of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. The association between DM and malignancy is well recognized, and the severity of DM symptoms has been linked to the progression of metastatic disease. Case presentation We report the case of a 42-year-old man that was diagnosed with dermatomyositis (DM) and rectal cancer. Proctectomy was performed, and DM symptoms were resolved postoperatively. One year and 9\ua0months after the surgery, liver metastasis occurred accompanied by the exacerbation of DM symptom. Partial resection of the liver was performed, and postoperative course was uneventful. DM symptoms improved postoperatively, and no evidence of cancer recurrence or DM symptoms was observed 2\ua0years after the second surgery. To date, few reports have described recurring cases of DM accompanied by colorectal cancer in detail. We reviewed four similar cases that were reported poor prognoses with treatment resistance. However, our case report demonstrates good long-term results with resection of metastatic lesion. Conclusions It is important to check the exacerbation of DM symptoms, as this symptom sometimes preceded cancer relapse during the follow-up of our patient with DM and colorectal cancer

Designing Synchronization Pat- terns Minimizing the Latency and the Computational Com- plexity for Inaudible Sound Com- munication Systems

The inaudible sound communication system of our imple-mentation estimates the correct positions of received symbols in its de-co ding process by calculating the correlations with the pre-defined syn-chronization patterns. This paper describes that a theoretical approach based on solving Euler graphs taking account of constraint conditions may potentially provide more efficient synchronization patterns, com-pared with the conventional technique that employs random sequences for designing synchronization patterns

Recovery of protein-losing enteropathy after living-donor lobar lung transplantation in primary pulmonary hypertension

The authors encountered a 43-year-old woman with primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) and refractory protein-losing enteropathy (PLE). The patient underwent living-donor lobar lung transplantation (LDLLT), which led to remarkable improvement in both pulmonary hypertension and PLE. Although there have been no reports, to our knowledge, which have demonstrated PLE as a complication of PPH, the present case indicated that PLE could certainly complicate PPH. Additionally, and more importantly, hypo-proteinemia due to PLE should not necessarily be an exclusion criterion for lung transplantation when PPH is involved, because it could markedly improve after lung transplantation