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In patients with acute lung injury (ALI) injection of contrast material is considered useful for differentiating consolidated lung parenchyma from pleural effusion and for diagnosing lung abscess.
The mutant 2369 T peak was small, possibly because gefitinib had been discontinued in this patient for 4 mo at the time pleural fluid tumor cells were collected; thus, there was no selective advantage conferred upon cells bearing the T790M mutation.
In total, this patient had three tumor specimens available for analysis: the original lung tumor biopsy, a biopsy of the progressing lung lesion, and pleural fluid.
However, this individual had radiographic lesions (pleural and bone metastases) that were deemed nonmeasurable by RECIST criteria.
However, for the third latent factor, the cell lines MDA-MB-435 (derived from the pleural effusion of a patient with breast cancer) and its Erb/B2 transfectant MDA-N have similar levels to those of latent factors estimated for the melanoma cell lines.