PathWays Case Study for May 10

By apriljosselyn • May 10, 2016

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A 63-year-old woman presented 8 years ago to the emergency room with right-sided chest pain. A CT scan revealed a 1.8 cm ileal mass and multiple liver nodules. The small bowel mass and one liver nodule were resected at that time. She continued to develop liver nodules requiring arterial embolization, a left neck nodule, and pleural effusions. She eventually succumbed to her disease. At autopsy, she had multiple nodules throughout the liver, heart, lungs, peritoneum, spleen, and bone marrow.

Justin Juskewitch, M.D., Ph.D.
Resident, Division of Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
Mayo Clinic

Joseph Maleszewski, M.D.
Consultant, Division of Anatomic Pathology
Mayo Clinic
Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and Associate Professor of Medicine,
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Follow him on Twitter: @joemaleszewski

apriljosselyn

April Josselyn is a Marketing Channel Manager at Mayo Clinic Laboratories. She has worked at Mayo Clinic since 2012. Outside of work, April enjoys the outdoors and being "hockey mom" for her two sports-crazed boys.