Advice on stroke provided by pharmacies in the United States: implications for treatment and care.

Objectives: Studies have found that some health lines and physician's offices have provided treatment advice other than "call 9-1-1 for an ambulance" to patients who present with a stroke scenario. We assessed the treatment advice given by selected pharmacies in the United States regarding stroke.

Methods: The investigators called 73 randomly selected pharmacies and informed respondents that the caller's mother had experienced stroke-like symptoms several days earlier.

Toward personalized medicine of lung cancer: response to nontargeted therapy in invasive pulmonary adenocarcinoma as a function of tumor cell differentiation.

We evaluated clinical parameters, histomorphology, and thyroid transcription factor 1 (TTF-1) immunoreactivity in 40 epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation- and anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) rearrangement-negative invasive pulmonary adenocarcinomas. Tumors were histomorphologically quantitated by a pulmonary pathologist and TTF-1 immunohistochemistry applied. EGFR mutation and ALK rearrangement status was determined with polymerase chain reaction/DNA sequencing and fluorescence in situ hybridization, respectively.

Apocrine adenoma of the breast.

A case of apocrine adenoma, a rare benign tumor of the breast is reported. A left breast nodule from a 47-year-old female was found by mammography and excised. The tumor was well circumscribed and composed of tightly packed tubules lined by cells with apocrine features.

Signet ring stromal tumor of the ovary occurring in conjunction with brenner tumor.

Objective: A case is presented of a single ovarian mass that had elements of both signet ring stromal tumor of the ovary and Brenner tumor.

Methods: The histologic features and the results of histocytochemical, immunohistochemical, and electron microscopic studies are presented.

Results: The signet ring component of the mass demonstrated features consistent with the few other cases previously reported.

An incidental finding of extreme self-limited thrombocytosis of unknown cause.

This report describes an 11-year-old male who presented to his pediatrician at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C., because of long standing enuresis.