Does diagnostic delay of colorectal cancer result in malpractice claims? A retrospective analysis of the Swedish board of malpractice from 1995-2008.

Aim: Delay in the diagnosis of colorectal cancer (CRC) may have important clinical and medico-legal implications. This study identifies the claims made on the basis of delay in the diagnosis of CRC to the Swedish insurance agency (whose English name is The County Council´s Mutual Insurance Company) and the impact and consequences of the delay on prognosis, treatment and survival for patients who reported the claims. The Company handles claims of medical malpractice where claimants seek compensation for alleged suffering and/or negative clinical impacts of diagnostic delays.

Diagnostic delay of breast cancer - an analysis of claims to Swedish Board of Malpractice (LÖF).

Aim: Delay in the diagnosis of breast cancer may have important clinical and medico-legal implications. This study examined the decisions made by reviewers at the Swedish agency (LÖF) that handles claims of medical malpractice where claimants seek compensation for alleged suffering and/or negative clinical impacts of diagnostic delays.

Material And Methods: In 1995-2006 a total of 134 women filed claims for negative effects resulting from delays in the diagnosis of breast cancer.

The Swedish system for compensation of patient injuries.

Since 1975 Sweden has had a patient insurance system to compensate patients for health-related injuries. The system was initially based on a voluntary patient insurance solution, but in 1997 it was replaced by the Patient Insurance Act. The current Act covers both physical and mental injuries.

Uppsala University Hospital 300 years--a survey of the surgical development.

Professor Lars Roberg, the initiator of the Nosocomium Academicum (1708), our first university hospital in Sweden, claimed that 'no-one who does not understand surgery is a completely trained doctor'. However, it was not until the end of 19th century that modern surgery was born. The Academic Hospital was opened in 1867, and at the turn of that century Uppsala had a flourishing period under the influence of Karl Gustav Lennander, professor of surgery.

Parathyroid history and the Uppsala anatomist Ivar Sandström.

The parathyroid gland was first recognized in 1850 by Richard Owen during a dissection of an Indian rhinoceros at the London Zoo. The credit for the discovery of the parathyroid has, however, been given to the Uppsala anatomist Ivar Sandström, who was the first to demonstrate the gland in man. His dissection studies were undertaken between 1877 and 1880, when he still was a medical student in Uppsala.

Increased expression of adenylyl cyclase isoforms in the adrenal gland of diabetic Goto-Kakizaki rat.

The spontaneously diabetic Goto-Kakizaki rat harbors the same defects expressed in human type 2 diabetes. It is not clear, however, whether stress factors emanating from the adrenal glands are involved in causing the diabetic state. For that reason, the authors studied gland size and expression of adenylyl cyclase isoforms in adrenal glands from Goto-Kakizaki and normal rats.

Apoptosis and Expression of the Proto-Oncogenes bcl-2 and p53 and the Proliferation Factor Ki-67 in Human Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma.

Apoptosis and Immunoreactivity for bcl-2, p53, and Ki-67 were studied in 21 patients with meduilary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). The DNA nick end labeling method was used to assess apoptosis. The relationships between the different factors were analyzed, as were their relations to clinicopathologic data, including survival.