Preoperative Screening CT and PET/CT Scanning for Acral Melanoma: Is it Necessary?

Preoperative pathological diagnosis of lung cancer: is it always necessary?

Received: January 17, 2012; Accepted: March 12, 2012 Corresponding author: Jun Nakajima, MD, DmedSc. Department of Thoracic Surgery, The University of Tokyo Graduate School, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bukyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan Email: [email protected] ©2012 The Editorial Committee of Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. All rights reserved. Ann Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2012; 18: 183...

Acral Lentigines, Is it a Paraneoplastic Syndrome?

We report a 34 years old gentleman who was referred to us with multiple brown spots on the palms, soles and scalp. He had those three months prior to being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. His past history includes both Evan's syndrome and membranoproilferative glomerulonephritis treated by mycophenolate mofetil (MMF). On examination he had multiple brownish macules over the palms, soles ...

cpr training for nurses: how often is it necessary?

CT Scanning in COPD - Is it Time to Move On?

Abbreviations: computed tomographic, CT; Hounsfield unit, HU; lowest 15th percentile of the density values, PD15; Danish Lung Cancer Screening Trial, DLCST; Evaluation of COPD Longitudinally to Identify Predictive Surrogate Endpoints, ECLIPSE; forced expiratory volume in 1 second, FEV1; alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, AATD Citation: Come CE, Washko GR. Editorial: CT scanning in COPD—Is it time ...

vaccination against hepatitis a for hemophilic patients: is it necessary?

conclusions more than 40% of the hemophilic patients under 20 years of age in the present study had no immunity against hepatitis a, and 23% of hepatitis c patients had not had a hepatitis a co-infection yet. since hepatitis a can show a fulminant course in hepatitis c patients, vaccination against hepatitis a seems necessary in hemophilic patients in the region. background hemophilic patients ...