Diagnostic accuracy of portable chest radiograph in mechanically ventilated patients when compared with autopsy findings.

Purpose: Evaluate diagnostic accuracy of portable chest radiograph in mechanically ventilated patients taking autopsy findings as the gold standard and the interobserver agreement among intensivists and radiologists.

Materials And Methods: Retrospective study of 422 patients over 22 years who died in the ICU, underwent an autopsy, and had at least one portable chest radiograph 72 h prior to death. Two intensivists and two radiologists independently read each chest radiograph.

The utility of multiparametric flow cytometry in the detection of primary effusion lymphoma (PEL).

Primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) is a rare B cell lymphoproliferative disorder that arises predominantly in body cavities causing malignant effusions. The incidence of PEL is very low, accounting for approximately 4% of all HIV-associated non-Hodgkin lymphomas. PEL has also been described in elderly patients and after solid-organ transplantation.

Autopsy-detected diagnostic errors over time in the intensive care unit.

We evaluate the evolution over time of discrepancies between clinical diagnoses and postmortem findings in critically ill patients and assess the factors associated with these discrepancies. We conducted a prospective study of all consecutive patients who underwent autopsy in a medical-surgical intensive care unit (ICU) between January 2008 and December 2015. Among 7655 patients admitted to our ICU, 671 (8.

Cervical cancer screening cotesting with cytology and MRNA HPV E6/E7 yields high rates of CIN2+ lesions in young women.

Background: European guidelines recommend primary HPV testing for cervical cancer screening. However, the starting age remains to be defined, with an undecided window between 30 and 35 years. This pilot study compares the effectiveness of primary HPV testing to that of cytology for the detection of high-grade (CIN2+) lesions stratified by age.

Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging predicts the presence of prostate cancer in patients with negative prostate biopsy.

Objective: To assess the ability of multiparametric prostate magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) to detect prostate cancer in patients with prior negative transrectal prostate biopsy (TPB).

Material And Methods: mpMRI (TSE-T2-w, DWI and DCE sequences) was performed on 1.5T (Magnetom Avanto; Siemens Healthcare Solutions) in 150 patients suspicious of prostate cancer and with negative TPB.