Fatty Neoplastic Mimics of the Liver
10 Fatty Neoplastic Mimics of the Liver Arief A. Suriawinata and Swan N. Thung INTRODUCTION FOCAL FATTY CHANGE MYELOLIPOMA PSEUDOLIPOMA INTRODUCTION Fatty lesions in the liver range from the…
Neoplastic Mimics of the Esophagus
3 Neoplastic Mimics of the Esophagus Arief A. Suriawinata and Hongfa Zhu INTRODUCTION SQUAMOUS PAPILLOMA GLYCOGENIC ACANTHOSIS FIBROVASCULAR POLYP INTRODUCTION Neoplastic mimics of the esophagus take the form of…
Neoplastic Mimics: General Considerations
1 Neoplastic Mimics: General Considerations Mark R. Wick, Henry D. Tazelaar, and Arief A. Suriawinata INTRODUCTION PHILOSOPHICAL AND PRACTICAL ISSUES TOPOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION AND BIOLOGIC NATURE OF NEOPLASTIC MIMICS Idiopathic…
IV. Pancreas Pathology
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New Imaging Modalities
Fig. 4.1 A 66-year-old male with advanced metastatic CRPC on FDG PET/CT demonstrates an FDG-avid (a) right paratracheal metastatic lymph node and (b) vertebral body bone metastases (T3, T12, L1)…
The Emerging Role of Immunotherapy in Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer
• Prostate cancer cells usually grow more slowly than many other malignancies, thus allowing time for the elicitation of effective immune responses able to translate into clinical benefit • Biochemically…
Evolution of Clinical States and the Castration Resistant Clinical Paradigm
Clinical phenotype Implications Pattern of spread Non-metastatic biochemical recurrence with options for observation, salvage radiation therapy, or hormone therapy Prognostic for survival In order of worsening survival: lymph node-only metastases > bone…
Epigenetics in Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer
Fig. 20.1 The mechanism of histone acetylation and deacetylation. The modifications of histones are able to regulate gene transcription. Histone acetylase (HAT) adds acetyl groups onto the lysine tail of…
Radium-223 and Other Radiopharmaceuticals in Prostate Cancer
Fig. 11.1 Periodic table For the bone-targeted radiopharmaceuticals such as Sm-153 EDTMP, strontium-89 (Sr-89), radium-223 (Ra-223), and phosphorus-32 (P-32), as well as the bisphosphonates, bone targeting occurs via hydroxyapatite Ca5(PO4)3(OH)…
PARP Inhibitors
Fig. 18.1 The principle of synthetic lethality applied to cancer medicine. While the loss of either PARP or BRCA function independently does not compromise the ability of the cell to…
