Describe Your Differential Diagnosis For Mesothelioma
- Chronic organized empyema
- metastatic adenocarcinoma
- sarcoma
Side A - Describe the clinical course of mesothelioma.
Side B - As the disease progresses patients develop chest pain and shortness of breath.
Fatigue, dyspnea and hypoxia ensue. As the lesion invades thoracic structures, the following complications may develop.
- dysphagia
- hoarseness
- cord compression
- brachial plexopathy
- Horner's syndrome
- superior vena cava syndrome
- disseminated intravascular coagulation
- migratory thrombophlebitis
- thrombocytosis
- coombs-positive hemolytic anemia
- hypoglycemia
- hypercalcemia
