Michael Covinsky

TL;DR: Serum albumin and clinically based measures such as the Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) are two potential methods of assessing nutritional status in hospitalized older people but it is not clear whether they measure similar or different clinical constructs.

TL;DR: A subset of GI tumors diagnosed as MM by routine histopathologic evaluation represents CCS, based on molecular genetic findings.

TL;DR: A 56-year-old male patient with increased immunoassay results for cardiac troponin I, thyrotropin, human chorionic gonadotropin, α-fetoprotein, and CA-125 that were consistent with myocardial infarction, hyperthyroidism, and pregnancy, and suggestive of an occult neoplasm such as hepatic or ovarian cancer produced a very restricted IgM λ antibody response to the E. coli infection.

TL;DR: The present article reviews the current status of clinical autopsies and addresses causes and consequences of their neglect and appeals the urgent need to revise the policy for clinical autopsy.

TL;DR: A distinctive tumor of the liver in four children composed of nested spindled and epithelioid cells with extensive desmoplasia with morphologic appearance and immunohistochemical profile that represents a new category of pediatric liver tumor.