The Use of Virtual Reality Echocardiography in Medical Education.

Virtual reality (VR) is a relatively new technology that allows an individual to experience a virtual world. This new immersive video type may be of particular usefulness in procedure-based healthcare settings. We hypothesized that VR echocardiography was non-inferior to live demonstration.

Does high-variation training facilitate transfer of training in paediatric transthoracic echocardiography?

Background: Factors that facilitate transfer of training in paediatric echocardiography remain poorly understood. This study assessed whether high-variation training facilitated successful transfer in paediatric echocardiography.

Methods: A mixed-methods study of transfer of technical and interpretive skill application amongst postgraduate trainees.

Investigation strategy in the management of metastatic adenocarcinoma of unknown primary presenting as cervical lymphadenopathy.

Conclusion: Computed tomography (CT) of the neck, chest, abdomen and pelvis is the most appropriate initial investigation following a fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) diagnosis of metastatic adenocarcinoma in cervical lymph nodes with unknown primary. PET-CT should be considered as the next step if the initial CT fails to identify the primary site, but its true value is yet to be determined.

Objective: To review investigation strategies for metastatic adenocarcinoma of unknown primary presenting as cervical lymphadenopathy, and to develop a management algorithm.

Value of fine needle aspiration cytology in head and neck lymphoma: experience in a head and neck cancer unit in the United Kingdom.

Conclusion: In our experience, fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) combined with immunocytochemistry/flow cytometry in the investigation of lymphoma presenting in the neck is highly valuable. In our unit it has a sensitivity of 95.5% and a positive predictive value (PPV) of 96.

Maxillary cementifying fibroma: a case report with fine-needle aspiration cytology highlighting the expanding role of e-medicine in cytopathologist collaborations.

Cementifying fibroma is an uncommon fibro-osseous lesion presenting in the oral cavity, which may present in children as an aggressive juvenile subtype of either psammomatoid or trabecular variant. Appropriate management, to achieve local control and prevent destructive expansion, requires early diagnosis, which fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) can provide rapidly in a minimally invasive manner. The role of FNAC is even more powerful in situations where medical facilities are limited or where surgical biopsy is contraindicated.