Single-slide versus double-slide Pap smear: a comparative study.

Comparison of the single-slide versus double-slide Pap smear method was performed using ectocervical and endocervical samples taken with the Ayre spatula and Cytobrush and placed together on one slide or on two separate slides. Eight hundred cases were collected by four different physicians in a gynecologic clinic (100 consecutive cases per doctor per method). All samples were evaluated at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

Stability of malignant breast microcalcifications.

Purpose: To determine the frequency of stability in malignant microcalcifications and its relationship to specific histologic diagnoses.

Materials And Methods: During a 34-month period, microcalcifications were proved malignant in 182 patients referred for needle-guided biopsy. In 105 patients, the mammograms were compared with one or more than one previous mammogram.

Combination therapy for NIDDM with biosynthetic human insulin and glyburide.

Objective: TO investigate the effects of the addition of glyburide to the regimen of insulin-treated non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) patients with regard to their overall insulin requirement and dosage schedule and to assess persistence of these effects.

Research Design And Methods: A double-blind randomized parallel-groupo, placebo-controlled, 20-wk outpatient trial at the Clinical Research Unit (CRU) at St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital (New York).

Frozen desserts and glycemic response in well-controlled NIDDM patients.

Fructose is known to elicit a lower glycemic response than sucrose, and high-fructose desserts have been recommended for a diabetic diet. We compared a cholesterol-free tofu-based frozen dessert (TFD) containing high-fructose corn syrups with a dairy-based sucrose-sweetened ice cream (IC). Six male and six female non-insulin-dependent diabetic patients (mean age 51 yr, mean ideal body weight 143%, fasting blood glucose less than 160 mg/dl) with well-controlled diabetes and managed on oral hypoglycemic agents were studied.

Congenital ureteropelvic junction obstruction with calcified renal pelvis and superimposed spindle cell urothelial carcinoma.

A case of congenital ureteropelvic junction obstruction with calcification of the walls of the renal pelvis and with a superimposed urothelial tumor is described and illustrated.