Oncology
Breast cancer screening: Does tomosynthesis augment mammography?This technology may reduce recall rates and increase cancer detection rates, but outcome studies are needed.
- Living with hematologic cancer: Recommendations, solutions
Once-terminal diagnoses are now chronic conditions. Survivors need a plan.
- Breast calcifications mimicking pulmonary nodules
Radiography suggested the lesions were in the lungs, but CT and mammography said otherwise.
- Watson, the game is a foot… or a palm
Sherlock Holmes I am not, but some useful clues are readily apparent if one is prepared to recognize them.
- Palmar erythema as a sign of cancer
Red palms in an elderly patient can be due to a number of systemic diseases.
A minimally invasive treatment for early GI cancersEndoscopic submucosal dissection allows curative resection of early malignant gastrointestinal lesions.
- Drug reaction or metastatic lung cancer?
Imaging shows nodules randomly distributed throughout both lungs, a paradoxical reaction to drug therapy.
- The Leser-Trélat sign
The patient presented with night sweats, dry cough, weight loss, and sudden onset of “itchy moles” on her back.
- Big heart, small ring
A 58-year-old man has stopped wearing his wedding ring, and his wife suspects him of having an extramarital affair.