Comparison of Prolonged Exposure vs Cognitive Processing Therapy for Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among US Veterans: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Importance: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a prevalent and serious mental health problem. Although there are effective psychotherapies for PTSD, there is little information about their comparative effectiveness.

Objective: To compare the effectiveness of prolonged exposure (PE) vs cognitive processing therapy (CPT) for treating PTSD in veterans.

A Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating the Effectiveness of Supported Employment Integrated in Primary Care.

Objectives: Mental health issues can cause serious problems in occupational functioning, including higher rates of unemployment. Individual placement and support (IPS) is an evidence-based supported employment intervention that is typically integrated within a mental health setting; however, many primary care patients view referral to a mental health clinic as stigmatizing. Thus, this study examined whether delivery of IPS in a primary care setting provides an effective treatment option and avoids unnecessary delays in obtaining competitive employment.

The methods and baseline characteristics of a VA randomized controlled study evaluating supported employment provided in primary care patient aligned care teams.

Background: This article describes the design and baseline sample of a single-site trial comparing Individual Placement and Support (IPS) supported employment delivered within a Veterans Health Administration (VHA) primary care Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) to treatment-as-usual vocational rehabilitation (TAU-VR) that includes transitional work.

Methods: Unemployed U.S.

Chemotherapy responsiveness in a patient with multiply relapsed ameloblastic fibro-odontosarcoma of the maxilla.

Ameloblastic fibro-odontosarcoma (AFOS) is an extremely rare malignant odontogenic tumor. Complete surgical excision is the treatment of choice. Deaths due to disease recurrence and/or progression are documented.

Childhood extracranial neoplasms: the role of imaging in drug development and clinical trials.

Cancer is the leading cause of death in children older than 1 year of age and new drugs are necessary to improve outcomes. Imaging is crucial to the drug development process and assessment of therapeutic response. In adults, tumours are often assessed with CT using size criteria.

Diffusion-weighted MR neurography for the assessment of brachial plexopathy in oncological practice.

Background: To evaluate diffusion-weighted MR neurography (DW-MRN) for visualizing the brachial plexus and for the assessment of brachial plexopathy.

Methods: 40 oncological patients with symptoms of brachial plexopathy underwent 1.5 T MRI using conventional MR sequences and unidirectional DW-MRN.

Imaging appearance of sarcomas of the prostate.

Sarcomas of the prostate are rare tumours. Their clinicopathologic features are well described, however, the imaging features of these tumours have rarely been documented. The purpose of this article is to illustrate the imaging findings of prostate sarcomas, with an emphasis on their appearance on magnetic resonance imaging and to identify features that may help to differentiate them from the commoner prostate adenocarcinomas.

Imaging of the spine in patients with malignancy.

This contribution presents an approach to the diagnosis of symptoms referable to spinal pathology in patients with known malignancy. Pain and neurological disturbance are distressing and disabling symptoms, which in patients with cancer may be a result of bony metastases, paraspinal soft tissue disease and meningeal and intra-axial spinal metastases. Imaging studies are pivotal, and typical and atypical imaging features are presented.