Self-limited thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.

Our team is presenting a patient who is a 57-year -old woman with a past medical history of cerebral vascular accident. The patient presented to the emergency department with symptoms of fever, right upper quadrant pain, and emesis. Initial diagnostic studies revealed thrombocytopenia with acute kidney injury, fever, and leukocytosis.

Feasibility of Proton Beam Therapy for Ocular Melanoma Using a Novel 3D Treatment Planning Technique.

Purpose: We evaluated sparing of normal structures using 3-dimensional (3D) treatment planning for proton therapy of ocular melanomas.

Methods And Materials: We evaluated 26 consecutive patients with choroidal melanomas on a prospective registry. Ophthalmologic work-up included fundoscopic photographs, fluorescein angiography, ultrasonographic evaluation of tumor dimensions, and magnetic resonance imaging of orbits.