Dyadic Spiritual Coping in Patients With Advanced Cancer and Their Family Caregivers: APIM.

Context: The use of positive and negative spiritual coping has been demonstrated among patients with cancer and their family caregivers. However, the dyadic effects of family caregivers and patients with advanced cancer on spiritual coping, as well as the factors associated with spiritual coping, remain unclear.

Objectives: To identify the dyadic interactions and factors associated with spiritual coping among patients with advanced cancer and their family caregivers in China.

Meta-Analysis of PKP or PVP Combined with Acupuncture in the Treatment of Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures.

The efficacy of acupuncture combined with percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP) or percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) in the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture is systematically evaluated. The clinical trials of acupuncture combined with PKP or PVP in the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture published before July 2021 are searched in databases of CNKI, WF, VIP, CBM, PubMed, Cochrane Library, and Embase. The information of included studies is extracted, and the quality is assessed by two independent researchers.

[A clinicopathological study of 14 cases of pulmonary inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor].

Background: Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is an uncommon disease which usually occurs in the lung. Recently, several reports have suggested that IMT is a true neoplasm rather than a reactive lesion. In this retrospective study, we reviewed clinicopathological characteristics and prognoses of patients with surgically resected IMT of the lung at our department.