Are chronic psychiatric patients at increased risk for developing breast cancer?

Objective: The authors' goal was to assess the incidence of breast cancer among chronic psychiatric patients.

Method: They reviewed mammograms and charts of 275 female patients over the age of 40 in a state psychiatric hospital and 928 women of comparable age at a general hospital radiology clinic.

Results: The incidence of breast cancer documented by pathology reports among the psychiatric patients was more than 3.

Round pneumonia in adults.

We recently evaluated three adult patients with rounded densities on their chest roentgenograms in whom the final diagnosis was presumed to be lower respiratory tract infection. In all cases, the circular infiltrates proved to be localized "round pneumonias." Round pneumonia has been well described in children but is less well known in adults.

Computed tomography of the abdomen.

In a few short years, computed tomography has become an important diagnostic procedure in the examination of the abdomen and pelvis. Its forte lies in its ability to provide cross-sectional views of excellent anatomical detail. Imaging of deep-seated structures such as the pancreas, adrenal glands, and enlarged retroperitoneal lymph nodes is now possible.

Efficacy of computed tomography of the abdomen--early results.

Our experience with 153 CT scans of the abdomen and pelvis over the first eight months of availability at our institution has been analyzed. The efficacy in terms of contribution to the diagnosis in each patient was assessed and accuracy determined. CT was found to have made a significant contribution to the diagnosis in patients with diseases of the pancreas, aorta, retroperitoneal structures, and in cases of abdominal and pelvic masses and abcesses.

Postmortem radiology of head neck injuries in fatal traffic accidents.

A series of 146 victims of fatal traffic accidents were subjected to postmortem radiographic examination prior to medicolegal autopsy. A total of 42% were found to have radiographically demonstrable head injuries ranging from relatively simple linear skull fractures to massive skull damage. Free intracranial or intravascular air was demonstrated in more than 60%.

Experience with 111-In-chloride scanning in patients with focal defects on 99-mTc-sulfur colloid liver scans.

Thirty-nine patients with focal defects on the technetium liver scan were rescanned using 111-In chloride. Of 20 patients with hepatic malignancy, 11 had positive indium scans. None of the 19 with focal cirrhotic fibrosis had a positive indium scan although 5 of these had primary tumor.