Publications by authors named "Maria M Marks"
Background: Regulations that cause minor cutaneous procedures to be moved from the physician's office to an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) or hospital may have the potential to unnecessarily increase the costs of these procedures from the Medicare perspective.
Objective: To investigate whether minor cutaneous procedures that could reasonably be performed in the office are being done in more intense settings (ASCs or hospitals), who is performing these procedures in alternative settings, and the cost of higher intensity settings.
Methods: Medicare claims data on a number of minor cutaneous surgery procedures performed by various medical disciplines, the location in which the procedures were performed, and the ratio of minor procedures done in each surgical setting by specialty were obtained using the 1992-2000 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS).
Background: There is a high prevalence of skin cancer in World War II servicemen stationed in the Pacific theater as a result of various risk factors such as exposure to ultraviolet radiation and genetic predisposition.
Objective: We sought to describe whether a possible association exists between basal cell carcinoma (BCC) development and the use of high-voltage cathode ray tube (CRT) oscilloscopes manufactured around 1940 to 1955, which were a source of X-radiation.
Methods: We present a case series of 9 men aged 65 to 93 years who presented with similar head and neck distributions of BCC and a history of extensive use of early CRT oscilloscopes during and shortly after the World War II era.