Patients with sclerosing pancreatitis have high serum IgG4 concentrations, providing a useful means of distinguishing this disorder from other diseases of the pancreas or biliary tract.

This study provided important information on the clinical application of FDG-PET in gastric carcinoma that early or non-cohesive gastric carcinoma may show lower FDG uptake. Therefore, the usefulness of FDG-PET for the detection of gastric carcinoma is limited. But there is a possibility that FDG uptake associated with GLUT-1 expression may serve as a prognostic factor of gastric carcinoma representing tumor metabolism.

Intraoperative ultrasonography can both safely and effectively localize pulmonary ground-glass opacities in a completely deflated lung. This procedure is also useful for the evaluation of surgical margins in a resected lung. Hence, ultrasonography may assist surgeons to perform minimally invasive lung resections with clear surgical margins during the treatment of solitary lung ground-glass opacity.

The combination of IMP3 and GLUT1 is most appropriate for distinguishing MM from RMC using FFPE sections.

Background-A diffuse lymphocyte infiltrate is one of the characteristic features of ulcerative colitis (UC). Such lymphocyte recruitment requires lymphocyte rolling mediated by L-selectin ligand carbohydrates (6-sulfo sialyl Lewis X-capped O-glycans) and/or mucosal addressin cell adhesion molecule 1 (MAdCAM-1) expressed on high endothelial venule (HEV)-like vessels. The present study was undertaken to elucidate the role of MAdCAM-1 posttranslationally modified ("decorated") with L-selectin ligand carbohydrates in UC pathogenesis and consequent clinical outcomes.