Pre-styloid parapharyngeal space masses-Tumor margins as a predictor of benign versus malignant histology on pre-operative CT or MRI.

Purpose: Evaluate the frequency of benign versus malignant masses within the prestyloid parapharyngeal space (PPS) and determine if tumor margins on preoperative cross-sectional imaging can predict malignancy status.

Materials And Methods: The electronic health record at UC Davis Medical Center was searched for PPS masses surgically resected between 2015 and 2021. Cases located centrally within the prestyloid PPS with confirmed histologic diagnosis were included and separated into either benign or malignant groups.

Diversity in action: Interpersonal networks and the distribution of advice.

Does diversity beget the active dissemination of social support in the form of advice to others? Previous research by Robert Putnam suggests that individuals in compositionally diverse geographical areas become closed off from their social ties and less trusting of others, which are both antithetical to social support exchange. We argue, however, that studies of compositional diversity are ill-suited to reflect diversity as it is actually lived and experienced in social life. Drawing from the first nationally representative study with comprehensive indicators of interactional diversity in social life, we analyze self-reports of advice-giving across a variety of social roles.

THE ROLE OF PERCEIVED RELIGIOUS SIMILARITY IN THE QUALITY OF MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS IN LATER-LIFE: DIFFERENCES WITHIN FAMILIES AND BETWEEN RACES.

Despite evidence of the importance of value similarity in predicting parent-adult child relations, little attention has been given to the unique role of religious similarity. Using 1,407 dyads nested within 390 families, we examine whether religious similarity predicts the quality of mother-child relations in later life, and whether the strength of this association differs by race. Consistent with our hypotheses, religious similarity was found to be an important factor in predicting both closeness and conflict, particularly in Black families.