Case study interpretation—Houston: Case 2
✍ Scribed by Horatiu Olteanu
- Book ID
- 102814015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 763 KB
- Volume
- 80B
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1552-4949
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✦ Synopsis
CASE HISTORY
The patient is a 22-year-old Caucasian male presenting with chest tightness, cough, and dyspnea on exertion. He first noticed these symptoms 3 months prior to his current admission. A chest CT showed a large mediastinal mass (15 cm  11 cm  7 cm) with areas of central necrosis encasing the major central vessels and airways. In addition, he was found to have bulky supraclavicular, internal mammary, and cardiophrenic adenopathy. He subsequently underwent a supraclavicular lymph node excisional biopsy.
FLOW CYTOMETRIC STUDIES
The tissue specimen was immunophenotyped with the following panel of antibodies, listed as fluorescein isothiocyanate/phycoerythrin/peridinin chlorophyll protein/allophycocyanin combinations: G2a/G1/G2a/G1 (isotype control tube),
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
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