BackgroundAn institutional review board-approved, multicenter clinical trial was designed to determine the efficacy and outcome of percutaneous laser ablation (PLA) in the treatment of invasive ductal breast carcinoma (IDC). Post-ablation magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was compared with surgical pathology in evaluation of residual post-ablation IDC and ductal carcinoma in situ.MethodsPatients with a single focus of IDC 20 mm or smaller by pre-ablation MRI were treated with PLA. The patients underwent a 28-day post-ablation MRI, followed by surgical resection. Cell viability criteria were applied to pre- and post-ablation pathology specimens, which evaluated hematoxylin–eosin (H&E), cytokeratin (CK) 8/18, estrogen receptor, and Ki67 staining patterns.ResultsIn this study, 61 patients were reported as the intention-to-treat cohort for determination of PLA efficacy. Of these 61 patients, 51 (84%) had complete tumor ablation confirmed by pathology analysis. One subject’s MRI imaging was not performed per protocol, which left 60 subjects evaluable for MRI pathology correlation. Five patients (8.3%) had residual IDC shown by both MRI and pathology. Post-ablation discordance was noted between MRI and pathology, with four patients (6.7%) false-positive and four patients (6.7%) false-negative. The negative predictive value (NPV) of MRI for all the patients was 92.2% (95% confidence interval [CI], 71.9–91.9%). Of the 47 patients (97.9%) with tumors 15 mm or smaller, 46 were completely ablated, with an MRI NPV of 97.7% (95% CI, 86.2–99.9%).ConclusionsPercutaneous laser ablation is a potential alternative to surgery for treatment of early-stage IDC. Strong correlations exist between post-ablation MRI and pathologic alterations in CK8/18, ER, and Ki67 staining.
Subconjunctival injection of commercially available gentamicin, delivered in one of several protocols, caused an acute toxic reaction myopathy of the extraocular muscles. The response began as a small focal infiltrate of polymorphonuclear leukocytes, and as the lesion progressed it assumed a mononuclear cell predominance accompanied by muscle fiber degeneration. The injection of individual components of the commercial preparation (gentamicin, methylparaben, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) and sodium bisulfite), each at the same concentration as in the parent solution, gave no response except for gentamicin alone. Gentamicin caused acute toxic myopathy when injected away from the muscles and when given as an isotonic solution in saline compared to the hypotonic commercial solution. Solutions at acidic pH not containing gentamicin did not initiate myopathy. Several factors that have been inferred as participating in the toxic response to gentamicin have been eliminated. Gentamicin alone is responsible for the induction of the extraocular muscle myopathy.
We report three patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma in whom fine-needle aspiration (FNA) showed neutrophils within tumor cells. All three patients presented with large neck masses; at excision, two proved to be tall cell variants of papillary cancer. Nodal metastasis, extrathyroidal extension, and vascular invasion were found in both cases. One patient has experienced recurrent disease; the other has an increasing thyroglobulin titer but no clinically appreciable recurrence. The third patient refused further therapy, but brain metastases were noted clinically; this patient died of disease. In each case, FNA showed tumor clusters with characteristic nuclear features, papillary groups, and psammoma bodies. Neutrophils were present in the cytoplasm of tumor cells in the absence of necrosis. Immunostaining for proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), MIB-1 (Ki-67), and p53 tumor suppressor gene product was markedly positive. lntraepithelial neutrophils have not been previously reported in differentiated thyroid tumors. We postulate that these neoplasms produce specific leukocyte-attracting cytokines analogous to those produced by anaplastic and poorly differentiated thyroid carcinomas. We believe the finding of intraepithelial leukocytes in the absence of necrosis in thyroid FNA specimens represents a characteristic of clinically aggressive differentiated papillary neoplasms; in our small series, each represented a tall cell variant of papillary carcinoma.
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