Lung cancer metastatic to breast: case report and review of the literature.

The incidence of metastases to the breast from nonbreast carcinoma is less than 1% of all breast cancers; of these, adenocarcinoma of the lung to breast is a small proportion (<0.1% of breast carcinomas). The imaging findings of a case of metastatic lung adenocarcinoma to the breast are presented with a review of the literature.

Relationship goals of middle-aged, young-old, and old-old Internet daters: an analysis of online personal ads.

Purpose Of The Study: Research on courtship patterns and romantic relationship in later life has not kept pace with the burgeoning number of older adults interested in dating.

Design And Methods: We conducted content analyses of themes arising from 450 personal ads written by middle-aged (40-54), young-old (60-74), and old-old (75+) participants.

Results: Significant differences between the young-old and the middle-aged were few; those between the young-old and old-old were numerous.

Medical students' attitudes toward the anatomy dissection room in relation to personality.

Assessment of the personalities of medical students could enable medical educators to formulate strategies for the best development of academic and clinical competencies. In this article, we focus on the experience of students in the anatomy dissecting room. While there have been many attempts to evaluate the emotional responses of medical students to human cadaveric dissection, there has been no investigation into how different personality traits affect the responses.

"Out of my league": a real-world test of the matching hypothesis.

The matching hypothesis predicts that individuals on the dating market will assess their own self-worth and select partners whose social desirability approximately equals their own. It is often treated as well established, despite a dearth of empirical evidence to support it. In the current research, the authors sought to address conceptual and methodological inconsistencies in the extant literature and to examine whether matching occurs as defined by Walster et al.

Neurocysticercosis.

Neurocysticercosis is a significant public health issue within the United States. Although cysticercosis was once thought to have been eradicated in the United States, the number of documented cases is rising and immigrants from endemic areas are at the highest risk for acquiring and developing this disease. The clinical presentation of neurocysticercosis is variable and vague neurologic symptoms or sudden unexplained death in individuals with risk factors may be the only available information warranting a consideration of neurocysticercosis.

Partner preferences across the life span: online dating by older adults.

Stereotypes of older adults as withdrawn or asexual fail to recognize that romantic relationships in later life are increasingly common. The authors analyzed 600 Internet personal ads from 4 age groups: 20-34, 40-54, 60-74, and 75+ years. Predictions from evolutionary theory held true in later life, when reproduction is no longer a concern.

Do people agree about the causes of behavior? A social relations analysis of behavior ratings and causal attributions.

Two studies examined consistency and agreement in behavior ratings and causal attributions. In Study 1, participants (N = 280) engaged in a series of getting-acquainted conversations in one of 3 communication media (face-to-face, telephone, computer mediated); in Study 2, participants (N = 120) engaged in a competitive group task. In both studies, participants rated themselves and their interaction partners on a set of behaviors and then made attributions about the causes of those behaviors.

Hysteroscopic dissemination of endometrial carcinoma.

Background: In patients with endometrial carcinoma, the use of hysteroscopy may result in malignant peritoneal cytology. The significance of these mechanically disseminated malignant cells is uncertain.

Case: Disseminated endometrial carcinoma occurred in a 39-year-old patient with endometrial carcinoma which had been hysteroscopically resected and treated conservatively.

Patients' experiences of Parkinson's disease.

Patients' (n = 101) experiences of Parkinson's disease (PD) were studied through structured interviews. Oblique factor analysis produced three moderately intercorrelated clusters of items reflecting reported severity of motoric, cognitive, and psychological problems, respectively. Scales formed from the factors were correlated with demographic, disease-related, and psychosocial variables.

The actor-observer effect revisited: effects of individual differences and repeated social interactions on actor and observer attributions.

This research examined several factors hypothesized to influence the actor-observer effect (AOE). Participants engaged in 3 successive dyadic interactions: after each interaction, they rated the importance of 4 causal factors in influencing their behavior and that of their partner. The AOE held for 1 external factor, interaction partner, and 1 internal factor, personality, but not for situation or mood.

Personality change in Parkinson's disease patients: chronic disease and aging.

Parkinson's disease patients (N = 41, mean age = 65 years) were described by themselves and their spouses as they were presently and before their illness using the Adjective Check List. Equivalent self- and spouse descriptions were obtained from the members of a matched community sample (N = 96). Descriptions of patients and their spouses converged, both reporting sharp, pervasive (e.

Subjective well-being in French and American samples: scale development and comparative data.

We introduce the English language version of a scale of subjective well-being that has proved reliable, valid, sensitive to change, and well suited to research on clinical populations in France. The internal consistency of both versions exceeds 0.80 and the data suggest that they are equivalent in meaning.

The fate of fresh and preserved, noncrushed and crushed autogenous cartilage in the rabbit model.

This study was conducted to investigate volume retention and chondrocyte survival rate in autogenous fresh noncrushed, fresh crushed, preserved noncrushed, and preserved crushed cartilage grafts in rabbits. During the first phase of this investigation, cartilage was harvested from the right ear of 20 New Zealand white rabbits, then preserved. Four months later during the second phase, two 6-mm discs of previously harvested and preserved cartilage, one crushed and one noncrushed, were applied to the right ear.

Report of a case of localized Castleman's disease with progression to malignant lymphoma.

Patients with multicentric Castleman's disease have an increased risk of developing non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. However, development of lymphoma in the localized form of Castleman's disease has not been previously reported. This case study describes a patient with localized Castleman's disease, hyaline vascular type, whose course was complicated by follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Somatostatin-producing neuroendocrine tumor of the ampulla (ampullary somatostatinoma). Evidence of prosomatostatin production.

Two cases of somatostatin-producing ampullary neuroendocrine tumors (somatostatinoma) are reported. The authors have characterized their immunoreactivity using antibodies specific for the amino- and carboxyl-terminal portions of prosomatostatin, the precursor of somatostatin in the normal synthetic pathway. Cytoplasmic staining was found using each of these two antibodies in the tumor cells of both ampullary somatostatinomas as well as in the cytoplasm of cells in the hypothalamus, crypt cells of the duodenal mucosa, mucosal cells of the biliary tract, D cells of the pancreatic islets, and parafollicular cells of fetal thyroid.

Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the breast.

Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the breast is a rare neoplasm, with only 140 cases having been reported to date. Data on 123 of these cases are reviewed herein and another case is presented in detail. Several features distinguish this type of breast cancer from more typical histologic types and suggest that it may have a unique tumor behavior.

Intraoperative surgical specimen evaluation: frozen section analysis, cytologic examination, or both? A comparative study of 206 cases.

Having recently become aware of the merits of cytologic preparations, histopathologists are focusing their attention on cytologic examination as a means of intraoperatively evaluating surgical specimens. This study compares the diagnostic accuracy and quality of frozen-section (FS) and cytologic preparations from 206 surgical specimens. The quality of cytologic preparations was significantly superior to that of FSs (P = 0.

Role of the transitional mucosa of the colon in differentiating primary adenocarcinoma from carcinomas metastatic to the colon. An immunohistochemical study.

Differentiation between primary colonic adenocarcinoma arising in flat mucosa and carcinoma metastatic to the colon is often difficult. Examination of the mucosa adjacent to the tumor, the so-called transitional mucosa (TM), may be helpful. The morphologic, ultrastructural, and histochemical characteristics of the TM have been reported previously in detail.

Medullary carcinoma of the thyroid gland: an encapsulated variant resembling the hyalinizing trabecular (paraganglioma-like) adenoma of thyroid.

Two encapsulated medullary carcinomas of the thyroid gland exhibiting an organoid and trabecular pattern with hyalinized stroma and composed of polyhedral to spindled tumor cells with hyaline-appearing cytoplasm are described and compared with three histologically indistinguishable adenomas of follicular cell derivation. Positive immunocytochemical staining for calcitonin and negative staining for thyroglobulin confirms the diagnosis of medullary carcinoma in these tumors, while positive staining for thyroglobulin confirms the follicular cell nature of the adenomas. The distinction between these tumor types is a crucial one, given the prognostic and potential genetic implications of medullary carcinoma.