Working with pain clinics and other consultants concerning low back pain.

Although primary care physicians are able to manage low back pain, often it is necessary to refer to other specialists. This article reviews how primary care physicians can refer to pain clinics and work with consultants.

Identifying candidates for active surveillance: an evaluation of the repeat biopsy strategy for men with favorable risk prostate cancer.

Purpose: Active surveillance is increasingly recommended to reduce overtreatment in men with favorable risk prostate cancer. A repeat confirmatory biopsy has become the standard recommendation for these men to increase the precision of this risk attribution. We investigate the usefulness of this approach by comparing the current practice standard, repeat transrectal ultrasound biopsy, with template prostate mapping.

Correlates of HPV knowledge in the era of HPV vaccination: a study of unvaccinated young adult women.

Until recently, awareness of the sexually transmitted infection human papillomavirus-the virus that causes cervical cancer-was relatively low. The purpose of this study was to identify factors associated with human papillomavirus knowledge now that human papillomavirus vaccines have become widely available. Young adult women (n = 739; aged 18-26 years) attending Florida State University who had not yet initiated human papillomavirus vaccination completed a survey between March-August 2009.

Intrapartum umbilical cord rupture.

Background: Surveillance and identification of umbilical cord abnormalities is a challenging problem in obstetrics. Continuous fetal monitoring during active labor helps identify when danger exists for the fetus.

Case: A nullipara underwent emergent cesarean delivery for fetal distress and was found to have a fetus already separated from the completely torn umbilical cord.