Diagnostic pitfall of sebaceous gland metaplasia of the esophagus

We investigated the sebaceous gland metaplasia(SGM) of the esophagus and clarified the evidence of misdiagnosis and its diagnosis pitfall. Cases of pathologically proven SGM were enrolled in the clinical analysis and reviewed description of endoscope. In the current study, we demonstrated that SGM is very rare esophageal condition with an incidence around 0.00465% and an occurrence rate of 0.41 per year. There were 57.1% of senior endoscopists identified 8 episodes of SGM. In contrast, 7.7% of junior endoscopists identified SGM in only 2 episodes. Moreover, we investigated the difference in endoscopic biopsy attempt rate between the senior and junior endoscopist(P = 0.0001). The senior endoscopists had more motivation to look for SGM than did junior endoscopists(P = 0.01). We concluded that SGM of the esophagus is rare condition that is easily and not recognized in endoscopy studies omitting pathological review.

Factorization of radiative leptonic D-meson decay with sub-leading power corrections

In this work,we calculate the sub-leading power contributions to radiative leptonic D→γνdecay.For the first time,we provide the analytic expressions of next-to-leading power contributions and the error estimation associated with the power expansion of O(∧_(QCD)/m_(c)).In our calculation,we adopt two different models of the D-meson distribution amplitudesφ^(+)_(D,Ⅰ)andφ^(+)_(DⅡ).Within the framework of QCD factorization as well as the dispersion relation,we evaluate the soft contribution up to the next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy and also consider the higher-twist contribution from the two-particle and three-particle distribution amplitudes.Finally,we find that all the sub-leading power contributions are significant atλd(μ0)354 MeV,and the next-to-leading power contributions lead to 143%inφ^(+)_(D,Ⅰ)and 120%inφ^(+)_(DⅡ)corrections to leading power vector form factors with Eγ=0.5 GeV.As the corrections from the higher-twist and local sub-leading power contributions are enhanced with increasing inverse moment,it is difficult to extract an appropriate inverse moment of the D-meson distribution amplitude.The predicted branching fractions are(1.88^(+0.36)_(0.29))×10^(-5)forφ^(+)_(D,Ⅰ)and(2.31^(+0.65)_(-0.54))×10^(-5)forφ^(+)_(DⅡ).

Higher-twist corrections to the D→π,K form factors from light-cone sum rules

We calculate the D→P transition form factors within the framework of the light-cone QCD sum rules(LCSR)with the D-meson light-cone distribution amplitudes(LCDAs).The next-to-leading power(NLP)corrections to the vacuum-to-D-meson correlation function are considered,and the NLP corrections from the high-twist D-meson LCDAs and the SU(3)breaking effect from a strange quark mass are investigated.Adopting the exponential model of the D-meson LCDAs,the SU(3)flavor symmetry breaking effects are predicted as R+,0 SU(3)=1.12 and R T SU(3)=1.39,respectively,confirming the results obtained from LCSR with pion LCDA.The numerical predictions of the form factors show that the contribution from two-particle higher-twist contributions is of great importance and the uncertainties are dominated by the inverse moment ofϕ+D(ω,μ).With the obtained form factors,the predicted Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa(CKM)matrix elements are|Vcd|=0.151+0.091−0.043|th.+0.017−0.02|exp.and|Vcs|=0.89+0.467−0.234|th.+0.008−0.008|exp..