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Complete Pathologic Response To Gemcitabine And Oxaliplatin Chemotherapy After Prior Therapies In A Patient With Hepatocellular Carcinoma And Peritoneal Metastases Undergoing Cytoreductive Surgery And Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy, Amry Majeed, Sneha Alaparthi, Dina Halegoua-De Marzio, Jaime Eberle-Singh, Wei Jiang, Pramila Rani Anne, Ashesh P. Shah, Wilbur B. Bowne, Daniel Lin May 2024

Complete Pathologic Response To Gemcitabine And Oxaliplatin Chemotherapy After Prior Therapies In A Patient With Hepatocellular Carcinoma And Peritoneal Metastases Undergoing Cytoreductive Surgery And Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy, Amry Majeed, Sneha Alaparthi, Dina Halegoua-De Marzio, Jaime Eberle-Singh, Wei Jiang, Pramila Rani Anne, Ashesh P. Shah, Wilbur B. Bowne, Daniel Lin

Jefferson Hospital Staff Papers and Presentations

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is often diagnosed at a late stage and frequently recurs despite curative intervention, leading to poor survival outcomes. Frontline systemic therapies include combination immunotherapy regimens and tyrosine kinase inhibitors. We report a case of a 38-year-old woman with chronic hepatitis B and C coinfection-associated non-cirrhotic HCC, which recurred in the peritoneum after initial resection of her primary tumor. Disease progression occurred on both atezolizumab/bevacizumab and lenvatinib, and she was subsequently treated with gemcitabine and oxaliplatin (GEMOX) chemotherapy and exhibited a profound clinical response on imaging with normalization of alpha fetoprotein (AFP) after several months. Following extensive multidisciplinary …


Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor (Mpnst): An Overview With Emphasis On Pathology, Imaging And Management Strategies., Timothy C. Beer Jul 2012

Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor (Mpnst): An Overview With Emphasis On Pathology, Imaging And Management Strategies., Timothy C. Beer

Jefferson Hospital Staff Papers and Presentations

MPNSTs are rare malignancies that are classically associated with pre-existing plexiform neurofibromas in neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1) patients, but also occur in association with radiation as well as sporadically in patients with no known risk factors. The typical presentation of sporadic MPNST is a new painless enlarging mass. The typical presentation of MPNST in an NF-1 patient is rapid enlargement or new onset of pain associated with a pre-existing plexiform neurofibroma. Although both MPNST and benign neurofibromas share in common the absence of neurofibromin function due to loss of both NF-1 alleles, malignant transformation to MPNST requires several additional aberrations, …