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It tends to occur in persons with a hypercoagulable state (Trousseau's syndrome, a paraneoplastic syndrome associated with malignancies) and in very ill persons.
All right, as a quick recap, anemia of chronic disease occurs in the context of chronic disease states like infections, malignancy, diabetes and autoimmune conditions.
The British Thoracic Society guidelines for pulmonary nodules recommend the Herder risk model for predicting malignancy in solid pulmonary nodules after PET-CT.
Other conditions include certain tumors and malignancies like Kaposi sarcoma which causes lesions on the skin and other soft tissues, and primary lymphoma of the brain.
Individuals who have had radiotherapy for thoracic malignancies (for example, lymphomas) are at increased risk for lung cancer; smoking further increases the risk.
The Herder model incorporates patient and nodule characteristics along with the degree of FDG uptake within the nodule to provide a probability of malignancy.
Diagnostic algorithms depend on the size and radiological appearance of the nodule (Figures 1.1 and 1.2) and the pre-test probability of malignancy (Figure 1.3).
The rest of cases, though, are secondary, and seem to arise from autoantibodies that are generated in response to another process like an infection, malignancies, autoimmune conditions, or medications.
Verified risk assessment tools (for example, the Brock model) have been shown to be more accurate than clinician assessment at predicting risk of malignancy.