The Kitasato Medical Journal
 
Vol. 55 No. 1   Mar. 2025    Kitasato Medical Society
 
ISSN(Print):1349-8568  ISSN(Online):2187-9699
 
CONTENTS
 
Original Contributions
 
Effects of pitch on radiation dose modulation in computed tomography using automatic exposure control
Takuro Yamane, Yusuke Inoue, Hiroyasu Itoh, Tomoyuki Shiraiwa, Rie Shimada 1
 
Cell growth and gene expression analysis of cultured fibroblasts obtained from keloid and normal skin of four individuals
Jumpei Wato, Akira Takeda, Yumiko Sone, Yoshika Sugimoto, Takayuki Sugimoto, Kenichi Kumazawa, Kyoko Baba 9
 
Factors affecting major amputation in limb necrotizing fasciitis
Yuta Niimi, Mitsuru Nemoto, Akira Takeda 16
 
Improved assistant port placement for left robot-assisted adrenalectomy and initial treatment outcomes
Yoshinori Taoka, Masaomi Ikeda, Yutaka Shiono, Soichiro Shimura, Kohei Mori, Shuhei Hirano, Dai Koguchi, Hideyasu Tsumura, Daisuke Ishii, Kazumasa Matsumoto 22
 
Evaluating the Schlemm's canal in Prox1-green fluorescence protein mice
Shunsuke Kanayama, Hitoshi Ishikawa, Kimiyo Mashimo, Yoshiya Ito, Hideki Amano, Nobuyuki Shoji 28
 
Effects of occupational participation on health-related quality of life after 14 years of follow-up among older adults in Japan: a cohort study
Akihiro Kobayashi, Yosuke Zenba, Tadanori Imai 37
 
Expression of CX3CR1 and FoxM1 in dendritic cell-derived osteoclasts
Kazuma Ino, Yu Matsueda, Hirotomo Asakura, Risa Shindo, Yasuhiro Hasegawa, Tomoki Tanaka, Tatsuhiko Wada, Yoshiyuki Arinuma, Kenji Oku, Sumiaki Tanaka, Kunihiro Yamaoka 47
 
Correlation of the differences between the regional brain and renal tissue oxygen saturations obtained by near-infrared spectroscopy with plasma lactate concentration in neonates and early infants after congenital heart surgery
Ryoichi Kondo, Fumiaki Shikata, Shinzo Torii, Tadashi Kitamura, Toshiaki Mishima, Masaomi Fukuzumi, Yusuke Motoji, Yoshimi Tamura, Tomoki Tamura, Kagami Miyaji 56
 
Case Report
 
Four cases of malignant melanoma treated with subtotal integumentectomy
Yuki Ikeda, Shinya Kashiwagi, Akira Takeda 62
 
Information for Authors 68