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Resp Path 4 - Pulmonary Infection and Neoplasia - Galbraith Flashcards

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Five things that if compromised, can allow pulmonary infections to occur.

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  1. Cough reflex - decreased = aspiration
  2. Ciliary function - impaired = 3. mucus-stasis
  3. Decreased phagocytic function of pulmonary macrophages
  4. Pulmonary edema/congestion
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Definition of pneumonia.

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Any infection of the lung parenchyma.

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What 2 lab testing characteristics help differentiate between bacterial pneumonia and viral pneumonia?

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In bacterial pneumo:
Higher CRP
Higher procalcitonin levels

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Absent splenic function predisposes toward what type of infection?

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Encapsulated bacterial infection

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Seven bacterial causes of Community-Acquired Acute Pneumonias

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**Strep pneumoniae
Haemophilus influenzae
Moraxella catarrhalis
Staph aureus
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Legionella pneumophilia
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  • G+, lancet shape diplo
  • Elongated DIPLOCOCCI in SPUTUM
  • Most common cause of CA-pneumonia
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Strep pneumoniae characteristics

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  • Gram (-)
  • ENCAPSULATED type B most virulent
  • Kids and COPD
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Haemophilus influenzae characteristics

Pediatrics - bacterial pneumonia (meningitis and LRIs)

  • Adults - Most common cause of bacterial acute EXACERBATION OF COPD.
  • Virulence factors like adhesive pili and IgA degredation by protease.
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  • G- cocci
  • Elderly - exacerbation of COPD
  • Pediatric - OTITIS MEDIA
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Moraxella catarrhalis characteristics

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  • G+ cocci
  • Imp cause of SECONDARY BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA, after a viral infection
  • High risk of complications (abscess, empyema)
  • Think: IV drug abusers and endocarditis
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Staph aureus characteristics

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  • Most common G- bacterial pneumonia (rod)

- CHRONIC ALCOHOLICS, MALNOURISHED, DM

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Klebsiella pneumoniae

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  • Imp cause of pneumo in CF and neutropenic pts
  • Hematogenous spread!
  • **Nosocomial infection
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa characteristics

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  • Water tanks&raquo_space; aerolization
  • Pontiac fever and Leginnaires’ disease
  • Immunosuppressed, chronic disease
  • URINE LEGIONELLA ANTIGEN for diagnosis
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Legionella pneumophila characteristics

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  • in children and YA

- a dry cough that won’t go away

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Mycoplasma pneumonia characteristics

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What is the main morphologic change in lung tissue due to bacterial invasion?

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CONSOLIDATION, as alveoli fill with inflammatory cells and exudate.

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Two main patterns of consolidation in the lungs.

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  1. Bronchopneumonia

2. Lobar pneumonia

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What type of consolidation pattern is this?
- PATCHY exudative consolidation of lung parenchyma.

What else is characteristic of this?

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Bronchopneumonia

  • Focal, consolidated areas that may coalesce
  • BASAL, MULTIlobar and frequently BILATERAL.
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What type of consolidation pattern is this?

- Consolidation occupies an ENTIRE LOBE

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Lobar pneumonia

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List the four stages of lobar pneumonia

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  1. Congestion
  2. Red hepatization
  3. Gray hepatization
  4. Resolution
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1/4 Stage of Lobar Pneumonia and characteristics

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  1. CONGESTION due to vascular engorgement and with fluid and bacteria
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2/4 Stage of Lobar Pneumonia and characteristics

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  1. RED HEPATIZATION - full of neutrophils, RBCs, fibrin
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3/4 Stage of Lobar Pneumonia and characteristics

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  1. GREY HEPATIZATION - fibrinosuppurative material, RBC breakdown, early org.
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4/4 Stage of Lobar Pneumonia and characteristics

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  1. Resolution - organizing fibrosis admixed with macrophages resorption of debri and enzymatic digestion of exudates.
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What does resolution normally result in ?

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Restoration of normal lung structure and function. But organization with fibrous scarring can occur.

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What is empyema?

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Fibrinopurulent material.

Expansion of infection into pleural space

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s/s of CA-acute pneumonia
- Abrupt fever - Shaking chills - Productive cough - Rust-colored sputum
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Look for what in PE to suggest pleural involvement in CA-acute pneumonia.
Friction rub and pleuritic chest pain
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Potential complications of CA-acute pneumonia.
Systemic dissemination causing: endocarditis, meningitis, suppurative arthritis, metastatic abscesses. Galbr: abscess, empyema (pleural involvement), bacteremia
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Difference in CXR between lobar and bronchpneumonia.
Lobar - obque lobe | Bronch - focal opacities
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What is the common pathogenic mechanism between CA-Atypical (Viral and Mycoplasmal) Pneumonias?
Attachment of organisms to epithelial cells, followed by necrosis and inflammation. - In alveoli, causes fluid transudation. - In upper airways - **loss of mucociliary clearance of resp epithelium=secondary bacterial (super) infection predisposition.**
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Morphology of CA-Atypical pneumonias (differing characteristics from bacterial)
- Patchy or lobar congestion WITHOUT CONSOLIDATION - Widened, EDEMATOUS alveolar walls with LYMPHOCYTES AND MACROPHAGES - HYALINE MEMBRANES reflex DAD
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Five common causes of CA-Viral Pneumonia
1. **INFLUENZA A** (B and C) 2. RSV 3. Human metapneumovirus 4. Adenovirus 5. Rhinovirus
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Cause of major influenza epidemics (antigenic drift - "drift away form host antibodies") and pandemics (antigenic SHIFT "recombo of viral RNA during replication").
Influenza A infecting humans, pigs, birds, horses.
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What are the two important viral proteins that determine the influenza A virus subtype?
- Hemagglutinin (H1-H3) - binds to respiratory epithelial cells, allowing cellular infection - Neuraminidase (N1-N2) - allows new virion release
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What part of respiratory tract does influenza involve? And once it infects the epithelium, what does it cause?
- **URT** = facilitation of spread from person to person. | - After infection occurs, it causes: intraalveolar fluid accumulation, cell death, inflammation.
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Human metapnumovirus characteristics.
Cause bronchiolitis and pneumonia in very young and very old. - Causes 20% of outpatient visits for pediatric acuteRTIs
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SARS characteristics
Coronavirus. Different because it infects upperRT AND LOWER RESPIRATORY TREE >> systemic spread. Fatal cases = lungs show DAD with multinucleated giant cells.
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3 common causes of Chronic Pneumonia. | - General characteristics
Localized granilomatous inflammation in inmmunocompromised pts. 1. Histoplasmosis 2. Blastomycosis 3. Coccidioidomycosis
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Intra-macrophage fungal pathogen | Inhaled bird/bat droppings
histoplasma capsulatum
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MS/OH rivers, think...
Histoplasmosis
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4 clinical presentations of histoplasmosis.
1. Self limited pulm infection! 2. Chronic, prgressive lung infeciton (apical, night sweats, Fever, cough) 3. Extrapulmonary involvement (liver, adrenals, mediastinum, meninges) 4. Wide dissemination
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Morphologic findings in histoplasmosis. | What stain used for dx?
- Caseating granulomas - Coagulative necrosis that may resolve by fibrosis and concentric calcification - SILVER STAIN shows 3-5micro-m yeast.
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If histoplasmosis is disseminated, what two morphologic things are seen?
1. Organisms found within clusters of macrophages (liver, adrenals, etc) 2. NO CASEATING GRANULOMAS
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General characteristics of blastomycosis.
- Caused by Blastomyces dermatidis.
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Central/SW USA soil think... | Canada, Mexico, ME, Africa, India
Blastomycosis
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Three forms of blastomycosis
Pulmonary Disseminated Primary cutaneous (erythema nodosum, erythema multiforme)
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Morphology of blastomycosis Granulomas are___
- 5-15micro-m thick - DOUBLE-WALLED YEAST WITH VISIBLE NUCLEUS -... suppurative
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Broad Based Budding, think...
Blastomycosis
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General characteristics of coccidiomycosis
- Caused by Coccidioides immitis
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SW/W US and Mexico, think...
Coccidiomycosis
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Spherules are what. | think what disease...
Contain endospores. Are in lung granulomas | Coccidiomycosis
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Morphology of Coccidiomycosis
- 20-60micro-m - Taken up by macrophages >> resist killing - SPHERULES
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fever, cough, detectable lung granuloma, pleuritic pain, skin lesions = what specific manifestation of coccidiomycosis
San Joaquin Valley Fever
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Defining characteristics of Hospital Acquired Pneumonia - high risk situation, most common G+ and G-
- Very high risk with mechanical ventilation - G-positive cocci: Staph aureus and Strep pneumonia - G-negative rods: enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas
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Defining characteristics of Aspiration Pneumonia
- People with abnormal gag and swallowing reflexes - Pneumonia dt chemical (gastric acid) and bacterial (oral flora) - Often aerobic, NECROTIZING, fulminant - Complication: Lung ABSCESS
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Difference between Aspiration Pneumonia and Microaspiration
- Aspiration - frequent cause of death. - Microaspiration - frequent in ppl with GERD. See NON-NECROTIZING granulomas with multinucleated giant cell rxn. Can exacerbate asthma, interstital fibrosis, lung rejection.
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Main opportunistic infections that cause life-threatening pneumonias in immunocompromised hosts (3 for diffuse infiltrates; 5 for focal infiltrates)
Diffuse - CMV, Pneumocystis jiroveci, drug rxn | Focal - G- bacteria, Staph aureus, Aspergillus, Candida, Malignancy
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HIV related Pulmonary disease: most common bugs at CD4 counts (200+, 50-200, less than 50)
200+ = bacterial and TB 50-200 = Pneumocystis Less than 50 = CMV and MAC Also: all the "normal" pneumonia bugs (strep pneumo, staph aureaus, H. flu)
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Lung abscess defintion
Local suppurative process that produces necrosis of lung tissue
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Etiology of lung abscess
- Oropharyngeal surgery, dental, sinobronchial infection, bronchiectasis, etc. - Nugs: Staph aureaus, G-, anaerobic (Bacteroides, Fusobac, peptococcus)
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Five ways causative organisms are introduced to the lungs to cause abscesses.
1. Aspiration of infective material (most frequent) 2. Antecedent primary lung infectino (s aureus, K pneumoniae) **Post-transplant 3. Septic embolism from infected thrombo or R-sided endocarditis 4. Obstructive neoplasia - postobstructive pneumonia 5. Direct traumatic punctures or spread of infection from adjacent organs
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What do lung abscesses contain?
Pus and air.
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Complications of lung abscesses
* *Development of BRAIN ABSCESSES or MENINGITIS from septic emboli. - Secondary amyloidosis, hemorrhage, infection into pleural cavity
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When are lung transplants performed?
Emphysema, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, CF, primary pulmonary HTN
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3 potential complications of lung transplant
- Infection in first few weeks posttransplant (Aspergillus, Candida at bronchial anastomotic site) - Acute rejection - Chronic rejection 3-5years posttransplant. Fibrosis (broncholitis obliterans)
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What genetic polymorphisms result in increased susceptibility to tobacco smoke?
Polymorphisms of p-450 mono-oxygenase
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Environmental exposures that cause lung cancer.
- ASBESTOS **esp + smoking** - Radiation: uranium/radon - Occupational: Vinyl chloride
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Three precursor lesions that may progress to malignancy
1. Squamous dysplasia and carcinoma in situ 2. Atypical adenomatous hyperplasia 3. Diffuse idiopathic pulmonary neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia.
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What carcinoma has the strongest association with smoking? | Other characteristics?
Squamous Cell Carcinoma - p53 mutations/overexpression - Begins in CENTRAL lung/hilar region from segmental bronchi
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Morphologic progression of squamous cell carcinoma.
- Shows intrabronchial **PRECURSOR LESION (squamous metaplasia, dysplasia, and CARCINOMA IN SITU)
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Keratin Pearls, think what? | PTH-rp, causing hypocalcemia without feedback... think what?
Squamous Cell Carcinoma
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Smoking with in situ component, think what neoplasm?
Squamous Cell Carcinoma
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No smoking, no in situ component, think what neoplasm?
Adencocarcinoma (met)
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3 P's of adenocarcinoma
Pleural surface Peripheral (differentiates this from carcinoid) Pucker Pleural surface
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Mutations in adenocarcinoma
Gain of function mutations involving GF receptor pathways: - EGFR, ALK (ROS, MET, RET) - KRAS (resistant to therapy)
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Adenocarcinoma precursor lesions (2)
1. Atypical adenomatous hyperplasia (less than 5mm) | 2. Adenocarcinoma in situ (less than 3cm) PRODUCING MUCIN
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What positive staining test helps determine if adenocarcinoma is from the lung?
TTF-1
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"Oat Cell" | SMOKING!!! withOUT in situ
small cell carcinoma
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Characteristics of small cell carcinoma - genetics, aggressiveness, size
- TP53 and RB mutations | - Aggressive and high fatality
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What area of the lung do small cell carcinomas generally arise from? And what type of cells?
- Central OR peripheral | - From neuroendocrine cells in bronchial epithelium
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Describe morphology of small cell carcinoma
- Small cells with little cytoplasm - Huge nuclei with MOLDING and ABSENT NUCLEOLI - Marked necrosis
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Paraneoplastic syndrome assoc with small cell carcinoma
ADH or ACTH (SIADH and Cushings)
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Metastasis of lung cancer
ADRENALS, kidney, brain, bone | - Hematogenous spread within lymphatics
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Name of tumor that arises from BRONCHIAL neuroendocrine cells. Is this malignant or benign?
Carcinoid tumor - low grade malignant. Classified typical (p53 mutation) or atypical (BCL2 and MAX abnormal expression)
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What are Pancoast tumors?
Lung tumors than invade neural structures around trachea >> cervical sympathetic plexus = HORNER SYNDROME
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What are tumorlets?
Small, benign hyperplastic nests of neuroendocrine cells seen adjacent to chronic inflammation or scarring.
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Morphology of carcinoids
- Intrabronchial, highly vascular, polyploid masses less than 3-4cm. - Neurosecratory granules seen. with immunostaining. - Propensity for LYMPHATIC INVASION
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What is carcinoid syndrome? | Results in what s/s?
- Tumor makes SEROTONIN, look for 5-HIAA in urine | - FLUSHING, DIARRHEA, CYANOSIS
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Organoid nests, think what?
Well organized appearance of carcinoids.
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What are symptoms of carcinoids related to?
Centrally located/Bronchial obstruction - cough, hemoptysis, impaired drainage.
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Prognosis for carcinoid.
Typical - Relatively benign with 95% 5 year survival | Atypical - 70% 5 year survival
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Tumors met to the lung
Breast, colon, kidney, prostate, bladder.
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2 types of Pleural Tumors
1. Solitary Fibrous Tumor (nonivasive, fibrosing, rarely malignant.) 2. **Malignant mesothelioma**
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Malignant mesothelioma is highly associated with exposure to what?
ASBESTOS, compounded by smoking
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Morphology of Malignant mesothelioma
Spreads diffusely over entire lung surface - forms a compressive sheath 1. Epithelioid Pattern 2. Sarcomatoid Pattern
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Epithelioid pattern of Malignant mesothelioma
Epithelium like cells forming tubules and papillary projections. Distinctive from adenocarcinoma bc of WT-1, CK5/6, and calretinin and long, selder microvilli.
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Sarcomatoid pattern of Malignant mesothelioma
Malignant, SPINDLE shaped cells resembling fibrosarcoma
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s/s of Malignant mesothelioma
chest pain, dyspnea, recurrent plerual effusion.
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Most common mutation in Malignant mesothelioma.
homozygous deletion of p16, seem in 80%
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Survival rate of Malignant mesothelioma
few survive longer than 2 years.

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