Short-Term Follow-Up Mammography in Breast Conservation Therapy Likely Leads to Unnecessary Downstream Workup: A Longitudinal Study.

Purpose: To analyze the effect of post-radiation therapy (XRT) mammographic timing and radiation technique in relation to additional downstream workup for 569 breast conservation therapy patients treated with adjuvant XRT after their initial surveillance mammogram (MMG).

Methods And Materials: From January 2011 to December 2014, 569 breast cancer patients treated with breast conservation surgery and adjuvant XRT with a follow-up MMG were reviewed. Patients were stratified by the time interval until their first post-XRT MMG, and by XRT technique-whole breast (472), accelerated partial breast (96), conventional fractionation (373), hypofractionation (94), surgical cavity boosts (407), or no boost (66).

Surgical resident accuracy in predicting their ABSITE score.

Background: The American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination (ABSITE) is given to all surgical residents as an assessment tool for residents and their programs in preparation for the American Board of Surgery qualifying and certifying examinations. Our objective was to ascertain how well surgical residents could predict their percentile score on the ABSITE using two predictor measures before and one immediately after the examination was completed.

Methods: A survey was given to surgical residents in postgraduate year(s) (PGY) 2 through 5 as well as to research residents in November and December 2011, and immediately after the examination in January 2012, to ascertain their predicted ABSITE scores.

Streptococcus viridans tubo-ovarian abscess in an adolescent virgin.

A tubo-ovarian abscess (TOA) is a common complication of pelvic inflammatory disease in premenopausal women; however, in virginal females, TOAs are an exceedingly rare occurrence. Within this rare subset of patients, there is almost always an underlying condition, such as vaginal voiding, or a concomitant disease process. A virginal adolescent female with no prior medical history presented with a large pelvic mass which proved to be a TOA.