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Pyloric obstruction is common in patients with esophageal and cardiac carcinoma. Once pyloric obstruction occurs, the patient has difficulty swallowing and cannot eat. Without solving this problem, the patient not only can hardly undergo the next stage of treatment but also struggles to maintain nutrition,…

During the Zhenyuan reign of the Tang Dynasty, a man named Songyangzi wrote a Biography of Weilingxian: “Previously in Shangzhou (present-day Shangxian, Shaanxi), someone fell seriously ill and could not walk for decades. Excellent doctors exhausted their skills without cure, and his relatives placed him…

There was a patient with gastric signet-ring cell carcinoma from Tianjin who had been receiving my pure TCM treatment for over a year. After treatment, although he was living and working normally and his previously progressively declining weight had stabilized, the disease had not been…

The Chinese herb Shifu (woodlouse) is the whole body of the common pill bug, Armadillidium vulgare (family Armadillidiidae, genus Armadillidium), or of Porcellio scaber (family Porcellionidae, genus Porcellio). It is also known as shifuchong, chaosichong, dishi, xiebanchong, shuishengchong, and xiguachong. Woodlice are widely distributed around…

This article follows the previous three. In Common Knowledge About Pulmonary Nodules (1), I introduced some basic knowledge about pulmonary nodules; in Common Knowledge About Pulmonary Nodules (2), I described some basic features of benign and malignant pulmonary nodules; in Common Knowledge About Pulmonary Nodules…

In Common Knowledge About Pulmonary Nodules (1), I introduced some general facts about pulmonary nodules; in Common Knowledge About Pulmonary Nodules (2), I described some features of benign and malignant pulmonary nodules. In today's article, Common Knowledge About Pulmonary Nodules (3), I will introduce the…

In the previous section, Common Knowledge About Pulmonary Nodules 1, I introduced some basic facts about pulmonary nodules and mentioned that there are three types: solid nodules, part-solid nodules, and ground-glass density nodules (ground glass nodule, GGN—commonly called ground-glass nodules or ground-glass opacities). A ground-glass…

With the widespread adoption of thin-slice CT scanning, more and more people are found to have one or multiple small pulmonary nodules during routine physical examinations. Statistics show that among adults undergoing active screening, about 40% have small pulmonary nodules reported on their checkup reports.

I had planned for a long time to go to the foot of Yuquan Mountain to watch the sunrise, but never quite made it. Today, a bit after four in the morning, I finally made up my mind. When I got up, my wife was…

Patient Shi, female, from Laoshan District, Qingdao, Shandong Province. She was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2021. On October 16, 2021, a PET/CT at local Zhouxin Medical Imaging (exam no. PET00001894) showed: 1. A left thoracic mass with unevenly elevated FDG uptake, considered malignant with…