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BRAF-Targeted Therapy to Treat Superior Vena Cava Syndrome in a Patient With Metastatic Cancer

4,5 A 67-year-old white man with metastatic cutaneous melanoma presented to a clinic with shortness of breath, tachycardia, and facial and cervical plethora. Further assessment revealed sublingual ven... read more

Superior vena cava syndrome and telangiectasia in a man with lymphoma

Our patient's lymphoma was diagnosed in part because he presented with acute superior vena cava syndrome. This syndrome occurs when venous return from the upper half of the body is obstructed, which c... read more

β-HCG Aberrant Expression in Primary Mediastinal Large B-Cell Lymphoma

We report on a primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma with aberrant expression of β-human chorionic gonadotropin (β-hCG). The patient, a 33-year-old man, had cough, dyspnea, fever, superior vena ca... read more

Ligation of the Inferior Vena Cava in the Prevention and Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism

It is the purpose of this paper to suggest that, in certain selected cases, it may be pertinent to interrupt the inferior vena cava to circumvent the possibility ... McC, a 41-year-old man, was brough... read more

Highlights of this issue

In this teaching case report, Bruno and Donoff describe a case of superior vena cava syndrome and telangiectasia in a man with lymphoma (page 1177). In Clinical Vistas, Buffo-Sequeira and Fraser descr... read more

Superior Vena Cava Syndrome: A Presentation of Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma

Show More Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Endocrinology Section, Department of Medicine, Salem, VA AUTHOR'S DISCLOSURES OF POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST The author(s) indicated no potential conflic... read more

A co-author of an antivax study attacks Orac for criticizing it. Hilarity ensues

And, of course, Gatti and Montanari find nanoparticles everywhere! For example: Studying a civilian patient died of lymphoma at the hospital of Sarajevo when the Balkan War was already over; we found ... read more

Intracranial Hypotension as a Cause of Radiculopathy from Cervical Epidural Venous Engorgement: Case Report

Summary: We describe the case of a 40-year-old man with spontaneous intracranial hypotension who ... Some pathologic entities that may have a similar appearance include lymphoma or granulomatous disea... read more

A Case With Multifocal Masses

Reprints: Semra Bilaceroglu ... syndromes involving airways, vessels (superior vena cava, vena azygos, pulmonary arteries and veins), esophagus, nerves, pericardium, and lungs. Superior vena cava synd... read more

Comparison of Shunt Types in the Norwood Procedure for Single-Ventricle Lesions

We compared the two shunts in infants with hypoplastic heart syndrome or related anomalies ... and pulmonary blood flow is supplied by an anastomosis between the superior vena cava and the pulmonary a... read more

Difficult Lumbar Puncture: Pitfalls and Tips from the Trenches

The depth of the thecal sac is variable over the length of the lumbar spine but often decreases from inferior to superior. For example ... Flow cytometry in lymphoma or leukemia is unpredictable. The ... read more

Starchild Abraham Cherrix doing well?

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