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A Review of Articles From Last Month's Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
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Listed below are questions based on articles that appeared in last month's print edition of the ARCHIVES. Registered continuing medical education participants should use the July 2006 answer sheet to answer these questions.
1. In approximately 80% of bladder carcinoma cases, the initial presentation is a superficial papillary lesion of low histologic grade.
True or False?
(from Dual-Track Pathway of Bladder Carcinogenesis-Spiess & Czerniak)
2. Which of the foll...
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Parathyroidectomy: New criteria for evaluating outcome
The American Surgeon
; Following successful parathyroidectomy, subjective improvement in recognized symptoms and in the overall "well being" of asymptomatic primary hyperparathyroid patients has been well documented. Because quantitative methods for measuring parathyroid hormone (PTH) and normal reference ranges of serum
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A practical approach to hypercalcemia.
American Family Physician
; Hypercalcemia is a disorder commonly encountered by primary care physicians. Approximately one in 500 patients who are treated in a general medicine clinic have undiagnosed primary hyperparathyroidism, the leading cause of hypercalcemia. (1-4) The diagnosis of hypercalcemia most often is made
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Evaluation of Total Serum Calcium Critical Values
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
; Context.-As a patient safety measure, laboratories are required by regulatory agencies to have a critical values policy. Total serum calcium commonly is included in critical results lists; however, a wide range of values are used and there is scant outcome data justifying inclusion of this analyte
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Calcimimetics Cut PTH Release, Lower Calcium.(parathyroid hormone)
Internal Medicine News
; ORLANDO, FLA. -- Investigational calcimimetic drugs appear to inhibit parathyroid hormone release while also lowering serum calcium levels. The new drugs stand to be attractive alternatives to vitamin D sterols, the standard treatment for secondary hyperparathyroidism in patients with chronic renal
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Anorexia, seizures, and ST-T abnormalities in a morbidly obese 21-year-old man with the Down syndrome.(Electrocardiographic Report)(Clinical report)
Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings
; A morbidly obese 21-year-old man presented to the emergency department complaining of lack of appetite for 2 to 3 weeks, and his sister told of the patient's having brief episodes of loss of consciousness accompanied by jerking movements. An electrocardiogram was recorded (Figure). [FIGURE OMITTED]
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