The National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) database serves as a crucial resource for public health research in Korea. As a comprehensive dataset within the single-payer healthcare system, NHIS data provides longitudinal insights into heal…
BackgroundAcute pancreatitis may increase the risk of pancreatic cancer, although this association remains unclear. Therefore, we aimed to investigate this association.MethodsWe retrospectively analyzed the 2002-2019 Korean National Health …
The world of non-coding RNAs has only recently started being discovered. For the past 40 years, coding genes, mRNA, and proteins have been the center of cellular and molecular biology, and pathologic alterations were attributed to either th…
Metastatic carcinoma that causes appendicitis is extremely rare. To our knowledge, metastatic cholangiocarcinoma in the appendix has been reported in only 1 case in the English literature. We report herein the case of an 87-year-old woman w…