Background Evidence associating diet with the incidence of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is inconclusive. We aimed to summarize evidence associating dietary factors with RCC incidence and assess the strength and validity of this evidence. Methods We conducted an umbrella review of systematic reviews or meta-analyses (SRoMAs) that assessed the association between diet and RCC incidence. Through April 2021, PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, The Cochrane Library, Scopus, and WCRF were searched. Two independent reviewers selected studies, extracted data, and appraised the quality of SRoMAs. According to credibility assessment criteria, evidence can be divided into five categories: convincing (class I), highly suggestive (class II), suggestive (class III), weak (class IV), and nonsignificant (class V). Results Twenty-nine meta-analyses were obtained after screening. After excluding 7 overlapping meta-analyses, 22 meta-analyses including 502 individual studies and 64 summary hazard ratios for RCC incidence were included: dietary patterns or dietary quality indices (n = 6), foods (n = 13), beverages (n = 4), alcohol (n = 7), macronutrients (n =15), and micronutrients (n =19). No meta-analyses had high methodological quality. Five meta-analyses exhibited small study effects; one meta-analysis showed evidence of excess significance bias. No dietary factors showed convincing or highly suggestive evidence of association with RCC in the overall analysis. Two protective factors had suggestive evidence (vegetables (0.74, 95% confidence interval 0.63 to 0.86) and vitamin C (0.77, 0.66 to 0.90)) in overall analysis. One protective factor had convincing evidence (moderate drinking (0.77, 0.70 to 0.84)) in Europe and North America and one protective factor had highly suggestive evidence (cruciferous vegetables (0.78, 0.70 to 0.86)) in North America. Conclusions Although many meta-analyses have assessed associations between dietary factors and RCC, no high-quality evidence exists (classes I and II) in the overall analysis. Increased intake of vegetables and vitamin C is negatively associated with RCC risk. Moderate drinking might be beneficial for Europeans and North Americans, and cruciferous vegetables might be beneficial to North Americans, but the results should be interpreted with caution. More researches are needed in the future. Trial registration PROSPERO CRD42021246619
researchregistry3382, dated 28 December 2014 ( www.researchregistry.com ).
Objective: To investigate the clinical efficacy and value of uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic bronchial sleeve lobectomy (BSL) in the treatment of central lung cancer. Methods: The clinical data of five patients who underwent uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic BSL at our hospital from October 2014 to September 2016 were retrospectively analyzed. Results: The BSL procedure was successful in all five cases. The average operation time was 254 min, and the mean time to complete the anastomosis was 168 min. The average blood loss was 116 ml, and the mean number of lymph node dissections was 16.6/case. The average intubation time was 5 d, and the total postoperative drainage volume was 732 ml. The mean VAS score was 2.86, and the average postoperative hospital stay was 9.2 d. All patients were followed up for 3-19 months, and all of them survived without recurrence or metastasis. Conclusion: Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic BSL was found to be safe, reliable, and minimally invasive.
Oesophageal schwannomas is a rare tumour and most commonly found incidentally or from diagnostic workup of dysphagia or dyspnoea. Most oesophageal schwannomas are benign and more frequently occurs in female than in the male. To date, <40 cases have been described in the English literature. In this study, we reported the case of a 57-year-old woman visited our hospital with the symptom of long-time dysphagia. A thoracic computed tomography demonstrated an upper oesophageal well marginated and homogeneous mass that adhered to the right wall of the oesophagus. Oesophageal endoscopy showed an extrinsic bulge 21 cm distal to the incisors with normal overlying mucosa. Strictly on a clinical and radiologic basis, this entity is impossible to definitively diagnose, the final diagnosis was based on histopathology and immunohistochemistry. Tumour cells stain positive for S100, a characteristic marker of Schwann cell. A minimally invasive thoracoscopic surgery was performed. The post-operative period was uneventful.
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