Decision making and management of root caries: A practice-based survey.

Objectives: With increasing life expectancy and improved preventive measures, teeth are retained longer, leading to a rise in prevalence of root caries lesions (RCL). However, little is known about how dentists manage this condition. The present survey aimed to evaluate the knowledge of Swiss dentists on decision making and management of RCL.

A framework for installable external tools in Skyline.

Unlabelled: Skyline is a Windows client application for targeted proteomics method creation and quantitative data analysis. The Skyline document model contains extensive mass spectrometry data from targeted proteomics experiments performed using selected reaction monitoring, parallel reaction monitoring and data-independent and data-dependent acquisition methods. Researchers have developed software tools that perform statistical analysis of the experimental data contained within Skyline documents.

Implementation of statistical process control for proteomic experiments via LC MS/MS.

Statistical process control (SPC) is a robust set of tools that aids in the visualization, detection, and identification of assignable causes of variation in any process that creates products, services, or information. A tool has been developed termed Statistical Process Control in Proteomics (SProCoP) which implements aspects of SPC (e.g.

Nuchal fibroma.

Nuchal fibroma was diagnosed in a 54-year-old diabetic woman with a two year history of increased skin thickness of her low-posterior neck and interscapular region, causing discomfort and limitation of neck and arm motion. Physical and laboratory examinations excluded further disorders. The patient was released, free from symptoms, after complete excision of the soft tissue tumor.

Early spontaneous rupture of the post myomectomy gravid uterus.

Rupture of a pregnant uterus is a serious threat to the mother's life and her fetus. Most of these cases have predisposing factors of which a post myomectomy scar is rare. Rupture of a post myomectomy gravid uterus usually occurs in the third trimester of pregnancy or during labor.

Diffuse lymphangioma with intrathoracic involvement.

A case of a young girl with oligosymptomatic multiple cystic lesions of the chest is presented. The chest lesions were found on routine chest X-ray when she was admitted because of meningococcal meningitis. As the lesions increased in size, surgery was performed; the operative specimens were identified as lymphangioma.

Spontaneous colosplenic fistula complicating immunoblastic lymphoma.

Immunoblastic lymphoma of the colon, complicated by colosplenic fistulization, is reported. It is suggested that ulceration and extensive coagulative necrosis of a bulky large cell lymphoma in the absence of a desmoplastic reaction are the prerequisites for fistula formation.

Massive thrombosis as a result of triple infestation of the pulmonary arterial circulation by Ascaris, Candida, and Mucor.

A 35-year-old man with a brief history of dyspnea and fever experienced rapid progressive respiratory distress and died shortly after being hospitalized. Postmortem examination revealed thrombotic occlusion of the pulmonary tree; the thrombotic material showed Ascaris lumbricoides, Candida albicans, and Mucor. This rare coincidence is an unexpected complication of ascariasis that has not been described previously.