The patient was a 74-year-old woman who was diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma, clinical Stage IIIA. Induction chemoradiation was performed followed by right upper lobectomy and lymph node dissection. Because of positive pleural effusion cytology, which was proven after surgery, the patient was diagnosed with pathological Stage IVA with EGFR L858R mutation.
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February 2017
Purpose: We report the clinical characteristics of a Japanese family with autosomal dominant oculocutaneous albinism and a SLC45A2 gene mutation.
Methods: A total of 16 members of a Japanese family with general hypopigmentation and foveal hypoplasia underwent detailed clinical examinations. We evaluated the severity of foveal hypoplasia using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) and graded it according to the criteria of Thomas et al.