BACKGROUND: In 1978, a clinical definition of OLP was formulated by the WHO. To date, the validation results of this clinical definition have not been published. The aim of this study was to evaluate interobserver and intraobserver variability in the clinical assessment of oral lichen planus (OLP). METHODS: Four clinicians ...

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan

IDEM, a computerized environment dedicated to pathologists, includes a Case Based Reasoning (CBR) procedure to retrieve similar histological cases in the database. The relevancy of a retrieved case strongly depends on the similarity measure comparing case descriptions. The present work deals with the definition of a similarity measure in the ...

OBJECTIVE: To analyze our experience with 400 Thin-Prep (TP) split samples (Cytyc Corp., Boxborough, Massachusetts) as an initial assessment of this new technology's effect in our laboratory. STUDY DESIGN: Three gynecologic oncologists and two general gynecologists obtained the 400 split samples using a broom sampling device. Following conventional smear (CS) ...

Cervical cytology (Cy) and biopsy (Bx) correlation is used by institutions for the evaluation of their cytodiagnostic capabilities as a part of overall laboratory quality improvement (QI). However, the data obtained from correlation are not routinely included in most surgical pathology (SP) reports. Our laboratory's procedure is to include the ...

Discrepancy rates between original and review histopathologic diagnoses have been well-studied, and range as high as 30% in some studies. While the sensitivity and specificity rates for a variety of cytologic specimens are well-known, few data exist as to the discrepancy rates associated with in-house, second-opinion reviews of outside material. ...

Researchers and scholars assert that feigning should not be equated with malingering. Some practicing clinicians doing the everyday work of forensic assessment may view this as merely an academic distinction. This case study illustrates that a high level of certainty about feigning must not be considered indicative of malingering. The ...

The ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) is a dramatic iatrogenic complication of fertility treatment. There is no consensus about its prevention strategies. We assessed whether physicians modify their preventive attitude in relation to clinical risk factors and to the oestradiol response chart. Three case scenarios with three levels of risk factors ...

This study focused on the validation of measures assessing religiosity by means of three self-report instruments: the System of Belief Inventory (SBI-15R), the Religious Orientation Inventory (ROI), and the Index of Core Spiritual Experiences (INSPIRIT). These instruments were developed and validated previously in the United States. The study measured the ...

OBJECTIVES: To determine the turnaround time for nongynecologic cytology and to identify laboratory and specimen characteristics associated with variations in turnaround time. DESIGN AND SETTING: Prospective evaluation of nongynecologic cytology turnaround times in 180 laboratories. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Nongynecologic cytology case turnaround time. RESULTS: Participants from 180 laboratories submitted turnaround ...

Castleman's disease is one of the rare causes of cervical lymphadenopathy. A study of 4 cases along with literature review has been done.

BACKGROUND: A London medical school final MBBS examination for 155 candidates. OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether observing the student-patient interaction in a history taking (HT) long case adds incremental information to the traditional presentation component. DESIGN: A prospective study of a HT long case which included both examiner observation of the ...

Studies that aim at identifying genes or environmental factors contributing to the development of autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) demand that several hundred patients and control subjects be assessed. In these large studies, the laboratory methodology is often described in detail whereas little attention is given to an accurate description of ...

BACKGROUND: Pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) is a rare condition characterized by gelatinous ascites. Although the histologic attributes of PMP have been well studied, the cytologic features remain ill defined. METHODS: We reviewed the peritoneal washings (PW) in 67 patients with PMP to identify cytomorphologic features useful in classifying cases as either ...

OBJECTIVE: To try to better define the cytologic diagnosis of atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASCUS) in a cervical screening protocol. STUDY DESIGN: Smears from 187 patients with cytologic diagnoses of ASCUS and histologic or two years' cytologic/colposcopic follow-up were reviewed. When an ASCUS diagnosis was confirmed, it was ...

Neural network-based screening (NNS) of cervical smears can be performed as a so-called "hybrid screening method," in which parts of the cases are additionally studied by light microscope, and it can also be used as "pure" NNS, in which the cytological diagnosis is based only on the digital images, generated ...

We reviewed literature published from 1995 through 2000 on developments in ventilator-associated pneumonia. There is no gold standard with which to compare the accuracy of various invasive procedures performed for diagnosis. Moreover, leaders in the field are calling for an outcomes-based analysis to assess the utility of invasive procedures. Two ...

OBJECTIVE: To assess the significance of atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASCUS) in predicting the presence of underlying squamous intraepithelial lesion (SIL) of the uterine cervix, and to determine the best follow-up method for these patients. STUDY DESIGN: We reviewed 76 cases with cervical smears that had been labeled ...

The relationships between interrater diagnostic reliability, confidence in diagnosis, DSM-III-R criteria ambiguity and case report data quality were examined in 20 case vignettes describing psychosis-related symptomatology. Each of seven diagnosticians made DSM-III-R diagnoses and gave confidence ratings for those diagnoses, as well as ratings on quality of data presented and ...

We compared our current screening strategy for vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) with a focused strategy that screens all stool samples sent for Clostridium difficile toxin assay but limits rectal swab screening to wards with new VRE cases detected via C. difficile samples. The proposed strategy detects 72.7% of new VRE cases, ...

BACKGROUND: Rates of lower extremity amputation vary significantly both between and within countries. The variation does not appear to support differences in need as an explanation. This study set out to see if variations in clinical decision making might contribute to the explanation. METHODS: Based on an extensive audit database ...

Microfilariae and adult filarial worms have occasionally been detected in association with neoplastic lesions in cytological smears. The presence of microfilariae along with neoplasms is generally regarded as a chance association, yet some authors suggest that such parasitic infestations may be a causative factor for tumourigenesis. There are only a ...

Although 'highly skin smear positive' MB leprosy cases are known to be at high risk of relapse after release from treatment, and have been recommended to receive 'prolonged duration' MDT, government field-based control programmes without skin smear facilities have no simple alternative method to detect such cases. This study reports ...

Substantial improvements in measuring and reporting errors in gynecologic cytology have been made during the last decade. Measuring and reporting errors in surgical pathology recently has gained renewed interest. However, review of current literature demonstrates mistakes in how these data are measured and reported. Error rates have been reported from ...

Forty-five raters in 7 German centres took part in a multicentric field trial of the multiaxial system of ICD-10, delivering a total of 488 multiaxial assessments of 12 written case summaries. In addition to the multi-axial ratings (including main and subsidiary psychiatry diagnoses, level of social dysfunctioning and psychosocial stressors), ...

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan

Neighborhood Assessment Report conducted as part of FOCUS (Forging Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy), Kansas City's Comprehensive and Strategic Plan