The clinicopathologic significance of psammoma bodies in cytology specimens: A series of 78 cases.

Background: Currently the clinicopathologic significance of psammoma bodies in cytology specimens are not completely understood, including types of cytology specimens and pathologic conditions frequently associated with this unique cytologic feature. In this study, we undertook a retrospective approach to review the specimen types, cytology preparations, patient characteristics, organs or tissues involved and differential diagnoses in cytology specimens with the finding of psammoma bodies.

Methods: Cytology cases with the finding of psammoma bodies from January 2004 to December 2022 were retrieved from our institution's pathology databases, and their clinicopathological features were reviewed.

Cytology-histology correlation of atypical glandular cells on cervical Papanicolaou tests: A study of 628 cases.

Introduction: The finding of atypical glandular cells (AGC) on Papanicolaou test is becoming more important as the incidence of squamous intraepithelial lesions decreases in recent decades. Therefore, the interpretation and follow-up of patients with AGC are particularly important. The aim of our study was to assess the histologic findings and clinical correlations in patients with AGC identified on Papanicolaou test.

A Strong Test of Atomically Detailed Models of Molecular Adsorption in Zeolites Using Multilaboratory Experimental Data for CO Adsorption in Ammonium ZSM-5.

A recent international interlaboratory study led by the U.S. National Institute of Standards (NIST) reported CO adsorption isotherms measured independently by 11 groups on reference material RM 8852, an ammonium ZSM-5 zeolite.

Interprofessional Collaborative Practice: How Could Dentistry Participate?

There is a remarkable phenomenon occurring among health professionals: the development of ongoing, routine collaboration, both in educating the next generation of providers and in delivering care. These new approaches, commonly referred to as interprofessional education and interprofessional collaborative practice, have been introduced into academic health settings and delivery systems throughout the U.S.

Will Large DSO-Managed Group Practices Be the Predominant Setting for Oral Health Care by 2025? Two Viewpoints: Viewpoint 1: Large DSO-Managed Group Practices Will Be the Setting in Which the Majority of Oral Health Care Is Delivered by 2025 and Viewpoint 2: Increases in DSO-Managed Group Practices Will Be Offset by Models Allowing Dentists to Retain the Independence and Freedom of a Traditional Practice.

This Point/Counterpoint article discusses the transformation of dental practice from the traditional solo/small-group (partnership) model of the 1900s to large Dental Support Organizations (DSO) that support affiliated dental practices by providing nonclinical functions such as, but not limited to, accounting, human resources, marketing, and legal and practice management. Many feel that DSO-managed group practices (DMGPs) with employed providers will become the setting in which the majority of oral health care will be delivered in the future. Viewpoint 1 asserts that the traditional dental practice patterns of the past are shifting as many younger dentists gravitate toward employed positions in large group practices or the public sector.

Continued Competency Assessment. Does it have a necessary role in dentistry?

The responsibility of regulating dental practice in the interest of public safety is vested in the states and is exercised through delegated initial competency evaluation of new graduates, continuing education attendance requirements, and investigations of complaints. Questions have been raised over whether this model can demonstrate effectiveness and whether it ensures continuous professional growth or only identifies the clearly incompetent. There have been reports identifying desireable standards and there are pilot programs for continued competency in dentistry.

Continued Competency Assessment. Its history and role in the health professions.

The concept of an implicit contract between the public and a profession is used as a foundation for the responsibility for professions to develop continued competency assessment and enforcement mechanisms that ensure that the public can expect safe and competent care. The literature in medicine, other health professions, and from other countries is reviewed. There is concern that the fact of continued practice alone does not ensure continued competency in a changing profession and that mandatory continuing education attendance is insufficient.

Two routine blood tests-mean corpuscular volume and aspartate aminotransferase-as predictors of delirium tremens in trauma patients.

Background: Delirium tremens (DT) in trauma patients is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Short interview tools have been used to determine the risk of DT but require an alert, compliant patient and a motivated physician. The mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) levels are parts of routine laboratory testing, influenced by excessive alcohol consumption, and may serve as predictors of DT.

New-onset anxiety disorders at high altitude.

Objective: Studies on the neurologic effects of high-altitude travel have focused on psychometric and cognitive testing and the long-term effects of hypoxia on memory and cognition. Few authors have discussed overt clinical psychiatric illness during high-altitude travel, and those few have focused on patients with preexisting psychiatric diagnoses. We describe a series of patients with new-onset anxiety disorders at high altitude treated at the Himalayan Rescue Association (HRA) clinic in Pheriche, Nepal (4240 m) in the spring season of 2006.

The Role of Psychiatry in the Management of Acute Trauma Surgery Patients.

BACKGROUND: Trauma is a leading cause of death and disability in the United States, with high prevalence and recidivism in individuals with psychiatric and substance abuse disorders. Half of these disorders go undiagnosed by the trauma team, resulting in adverse public health and economic consequences. METHOD: In a 16-week pilot study in the emergency department of an inner-city tertiary care hospital, a psychiatrist was integrated into the trauma surgery team by responding to all traumas and rounding with the staff 1 shift per week (March 1, 2000, through June 31, 2000).

Some ethical and psychiatric aspects of right-lobe liver transplantation in the United States and Japan.

Cadaver sources are insufficient for the increasing demand for liver transplantation. Right-lobe liver transplantation from living donors is fully developed in Japan and has been rapidly increasing in the United States during the past 2 years, although donor risk is greater than in other types of solid organ transplantation. The authors examine the psychiatric and ethical aspects of right-lobe liver transplantation in light of cultural differences between the United States and Japan.