Publications by authors named "Christine Arnesen"

Prostate cancer is well known to metastasize to the testis and is not an uncommon finding on castration performed for advanced disease. Although germ cell tumors make up the majority of testis neoplasms, there are more rare tumors, such as rete testis adenocarcinoma, that can mimic metastatic disease. NKX3.

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Background: Treatment of multiple myeloma with daratumumab (DARA) is increasing fast. Unfortunately, this antibody also attaches to red blood cells (RBCs) and mimics an autoantibody's panreactivity during pre-transfusion testing, necessitating specialized techniques, (e.g.

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Many vascular access options, such as subcutaneous ports, are currently on the market for use in both medication infusion and for procedures, such as therapeutic plasma exchange and extracorporeal photopheresis. We compared the cost and time necessary to complete apheresis procedures using either Angiodynamic's Vortex or Bard's PowerFlow subcutaneous ports by reviewing our experience on two patients undergoing long-term apheresis treatments with at least 10 procedures with each type of port. We analyzed the cost of needles and thrombolytic therapy, staff time, overall procedure length, and the total time the patient was in the apheresis unit.

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