Sep
12
2008
Dr. Marc Wein's Powerpoint presentation on Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis in Hodgkin's lymphoma
i.e., a bunch of slides about my case. Here’s a link to the full presentation. But I have some favorite slides. . . .
Page 11 is the first time I saw images of my tumor. See below the piece labeled “mass”:
Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis in Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, by Marc Wein, HMS III, and Dr. Gillian Lieberman, MD – Upload a Document to Scribd
Page 14 is the first time I saw my own histopathology, with cancerous cells circled:
Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis in Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, by Marc Wein, HMS III, and Dr. Gillian Lieberman, MD – Upload a Document to Scribd
And, what’s extraordinarily humbling and makes me thankful that Marc and Dr. Abend were so damn good at their jobs, is how bad things look in a PET scan when Hodgkin’s reaches stage IV:
