Aishatu Aloma

Tufts Medical Center

Patients undergoing cytotoxic or immunosuppressive therapy for cancer have an established predilection for hepatitis B virus reactivation; however, the risk associated with newer molecularly targeted agents has not been well investigated. Imatinib, a small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor, induces rapid and sustained clinical benefit by inhibitin...

Primitive neuroectodermal tumor is a high-grade malignant tumor originating from the neural crest and neuroectoderm, which can be subdivided into central and peripheral categories. Peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor is thought to be identical to Ewing's sarcoma, and falls under a broader category of Ewing's sarcoma family of tumors. Very ra...

SESSION TITLE: Pulmonary & Critical Care Imaging SESSION TYPE: Original Investigation Slide PRESENTED ON: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM PURPOSE: Exudative pleural effusions complicated by formation of loculations often fail chest-tube drainage and require intrapleural instillation of TPA DNAse or surgical decortication. Chest CT...

SESSION TITLE: Pleural Disease SESSION TYPE: Original Investigation Slide PRESENTED ON: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 02:45 PM - 04:15 PM PURPOSE: Tunneled pleural catheters (TPC) have proven to be safe and effective in the management of malignant pleural effusions. There is a lack of data demonstrating the safety and efficacy of TPC in non-malign...