Solitary benign fibrous tumors of the pleura.

Solitary benign fibrous tumors of the pleura are very rare. Seven patients (mean age, 52 years) who presented between 1995 and 2005 were studied retrospectively. They had nonspecific chest symptoms and no history of asbestos exposure or smoking.

A prospective study of hemodialysis access-related bacterial infections.

The objective of this study was to describe hemodialysis vascular-access related infections that occurred in hemodialysis patients over an 18-month period. The study is a prospective descriptive analysis of incidence infection rates in a hemodialysis unit in a tertiary-care medical center. Prospective surveillance for hemodialysis vascular access-related infection was performed for all patients undergoing hemodialysis from November 1999 through April 2001 at King Fahd Hospital of King Faisal University, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia.