Role of exercise for type 2 diabetic patient management.

Background: Exercise is integral to the management of type 2 diabetes. Unfortunately, the majority of adults with type 2 diabetes do not engage in regular exercise.

Methods: Three hundred patients with type 2 diabetes were randomly selected from a patient pool of diabetic patients encountered in 1996 at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Giant cell tumor of the larynx. Case report and review of the literature.

Giant cell tumor of bone is rare in the osteocartilaginous tissues of the larynx. We describe a 23-year-old man with a 6-month history of progressive hoarseness and an enlarging neck mass. Computed tomography demonstrated a 4-cm mass with central cystic change arising in the right ala of the thyroid cartilage.