Elaine T. Lam, MD

Articles by Elaine T. Lam, MD

Hereditary Renal Tumor Syndromes and the Use of mTOR Inhibitors

ByJosé Luis Rodríguez-Olivares, MD,Héctor Raúl González-Sánchez, MD,Evelyn Lilian Beas-Lozano, MD,Jazmin Arteaga-Vázquez, MD,Elaine T. Lam, MD,María T. Bourlon, MD, MSc, FASCO

October 22nd 2024

A 47-year-old woman with a history of drug-resistant epilepsy during childhood presented to the emergency department with sudden dyspnea and chest pain. Upon admission, her oxygen saturation was 88%.

Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma With Sarcomatoid Features

ByAbigail Mateos-Soria, MD,Francisco J. Castro-Alonso, MD,Yusuf Z. Şener, MD,Gabriel Quintero-Bustos, MD,Mariana Licano-Zubiate, MD,Rene Bourlon, MD,Elaine T. Lam, MD,María T. Bourlon, MD, MSc, FASCO

April 15th 2022

In this installement of Clinical Quandaries, Abigail Mateos-Soria, MD, and colleagues present a case of an 38-year-old woman who has a 3-month history of fatigue, dyspnea, significant weight loss, and severe left flank pain.

Immune-Related Adverse Events Involving Multiple Organ Sites in a Patient Treated With Nivolumab Plus Ipilimumab

ByYuly A. Remolina-Bonilla, MD,Brenda Jimenez-Franco, MD,María T. Bourlon, MD, MSc, FASCO,Elaine T. Lam, MD

May 13th 2020

Experts discuss the case of a 56-year-old white man who presents with multiple immune-related adverse events

Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia in Patients With Metastatic Prostate Cancer on Corticosteroids for Malignant Spinal Cord Compression: Two Case Reports and a Guideline Review

ByCassandra Duarte, MD,Danielle Gilbert, BA,Alison D. Sheridan, MD,Sarah D. Weisdack, PharmaD,Elaine T. Lam, MD

March 19th 2020

Two case reports and a review of PCP in patients with solid tumors.

The Role of Primary Tumor Treatment and Metastasis-Directed Therapy in Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer

ByAbhinav Gupta ,Thomas J. Pugh, MD,Alison D. Sheridan, MD,Sameer Nath, MD,Elaine T. Lam, MD

May 14th 2019

This case looks at an otherwise healthy 59-year-old man who was recently diagnosed with clinical stage IVB prostate adenocarcinoma. What is the most appropriate management for this patient?

Upfront Chemotherapy for Metastatic Prostate Cancer

ByElaine T. Lam, MD,Thomas W. Flaig, MD

December 16th 2015

In this review, we describe the historical data for chemotherapy in the perioperative and metastatic prostate cancer settings, and the recent trials that are changing the paradigm in support of docetaxel in the upfront setting.

A Patient With Newly Diagnosed Metastatic Type 2 Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma

ByMaría T. Bourlon, MD, MSc, FASCO,Monica Meneses-Medina, MD,Sara Vázquez-Manjarrez, MD,Francisco M. Bustamante-Romero, MD,Adriana C. Gallegos-Garza, MD,Elaine T. Lam, MD

November 16th 2015

A 42-year-old man presented with increasing right hip pain that limited his ability to walk. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a right lytic acetabular lesion. Further work-up included a computed tomography (CT) scan, which revealed an 8-cm left kidney tumor.

Collision Renal Cell Papillary and Medullary Carcinoma in a 66-Year-Old Man

ByElaine T. Lam, MD,Elizabeth R. Kessler, MD,Thomas W. Flaig, MD,Francisco G. La Rosa, MD

September 15th 2013

The patient is a 66-year-old male who presented to his primary care physician with a 3-week history of painless gross hematuria. He underwent a renal ultrasound that showed a left kidney mass.

Nonseminomatous Germ Cell Tumor of Testis and Interrupted Treatment

ByL. Michael Glodé, MD, FACP,Elaine T. Lam, MD

August 15th 2013

A 22-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 5-cm painful testicular mass that had increased in size over the previous month. Tumor markers were drawn and an inguinal orchiectomy was performed.

A Rare Case of Metastatic Renal Epithelioid Angiomyolipoma

ByElaine T. Lam, MD,Francisco G. La Rosa, MD,Thomas D. Suby-long, MD,Kimi L. Kondo, DO,Shandra S. Wilson, MD,L. Michael Glodé, MD, FACP,Thomas W. Flaig, MD

August 15th 2011

The patient is a 43-year-old man who was initially evaluated at an outside institution for unexplained anemia and who was found to have a large right kidney mass. He underwent a radical nephrectomy for a 19-cm large-cell, poorly differentiated neoplasm, consistent with pleomorphic, epithelioid angiomyolipoma (EAML) with extensive necrosis and cytologic atypia.