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.