Mediastinal lymph node metastasis from colorectal cancer is rarely seen. We herein report on a 74-year-old man who was hospitalized with multiple brain metastases and mediastinal lymph node metastasis from an adenocarcinoma of the sigmoid colon. A preoperative brain magnetic resonance image showed multiple brain tumors, and a chest computed tomography (CT) scan indicated a mediastinal tumor. CT-guided aspiration biopsy cytology of the mediastinal tumor showed metastatic adenocarcinoma from a digestive tract tumor. Barium enema and sigmoid colonoscopy showed that the cancer was located in the sigmoid colon. Laparoscopic assisted sigmoidectomy with lymph node dissection was performed. Pathological findings of the specimen showed a moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma that invaded to the subserosa, but no evidence of lymph node metastasis was found. The patient was discharged 3 weeks after the operation and died 3 months later.
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January 2025
IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain.
Previous studies have reported that chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) shows a de novo chromatin activation pattern as compared to normal B cells. Here, we explored whether the level of chromatin activation is related to the clinical behavior of CLL. We identified that in some regulatory regions, increased de novo chromatin activation is linked to clinical progression whereas, in other regions, it is associated with an indolent course.
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Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias. Cátedra de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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January 2025
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80305.
Immunological interventions, like vaccinations, are enabled by the predictive control of humoral responses to novel antigens. While the development trajectories for many broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) have been measured, it is less established how human subtype-specific antibodies develop from their precursors. In this work, we evaluated the retrospective development trajectories for eight anti-SARS-CoV-2 Spike human antibodies (Abs).
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NMR Signal Enhancement Group, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
Deuterium (H) MRI is an emerging tool for noninvasive imaging. We explore the integration of H MRI with deuterated multifunctional nanopolymers for deuterated particle imaging (DPI). To this end, amine-terminated G5-polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers were labeled with deuterated acetyl surface groups, leading to highly H-loaded bioparticles, making them ideal for imaging studies.
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January 2025
Ellen Leifer Shulman and Steven Shulman Digestive Disease Centre, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, Florida, USA.
Aim: Lymphovascular invasion (LVI) is a well-known risk factor in colorectal cancer that is associated with a worse prognosis. The present study aimed to assess the characteristics of patients with LVI-positive colon cancer according to the status of nodal metastases and to study the association between LVI-nodal status and survival.
Method: This retrospective study assessed the association between LVI and lymph node metastases in colon cancer, using data from the National Cancer Database.
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