Immune-mediated Gastritis in a Patient with metastatic Lung Cancer due to Therapy with the immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Pembrolizumab - Differences and Similarities in Comparison to "endogenous" autoimmune Type A Gastritis and a review of literature.

Immune checkpoint inhibitors are increasingly used in advanced malignant diseases and are well-known for their good results. With the blockade of immune checkpoints, the probability of immune-related adverse events is also increased.We present a 54-year-old female patient with advanced NSCLC.

Multidisciplinary out-patient treatment with monitoring by telemedicine for a large-volume multifocal pyogenic liver abscess in times of the pandemic.

Pyogenic liver abscesses represent one of the rarer, but potentially life-threatening diseases of the liver. The treatment for large-volume liver abscesses is usually multimodal with percutaneous drainage combined with several days of treatment in hospital. We are presenting a report on a male patient with type-2 diabetes mellitus who suffered from a multifocal liver abscess (>10 cm).

First-line chemotherapy in metastatic small-cell lung cancer (SCLC).

The overall treatment results in metastatic small-cell lung cancer have not been changed in the last decades. The prognosis of the disease is still poor with median survival times of less than one year and nearly no chance of cure. This article intends to summarize the current status of treatment in m-SCLC and especially focuses on the aspects of choice of drugs and efforts of treatment intensification either by dose escalation or shortening of treatment intervals.