Paget disease of the anterior tibial tubercle

A study was done of 13 cases of biopsy-proved Paget disease in which the disease involved the anterior tibial tubercle with extension into the metaphysis and diaphysis, but without apparent involvement of the proximal tibial epiphysis. Case data were obtained from archives containing more than 350 cases of Paget disease. Age, sex, symptoms, serum alkaline phosphatase level, and histologic and radiographic appearance of the lesions were evaluated. Patients were young at clinical presentation, averaging 36 years of age. In five of six patients the serum alkaline phosphatase level was normal. The proximal extent of the disease was the anterior tibial tubercle rather than the proximal epiphysis. Radiographic patterns ranged from predominantly lytic to mixed lytic and blastic to predominantly blastic, and the lesion was marginated by a flame-shaped configuration. The radiographic appearance of Paget disease of the anterior tibial tubercle is characteristic and should be sufficient to suggest the diagnosis and preclude biopsy.     

细胞角蛋白20检测在大肠癌微转移中的临床意义

近年来随着微转移在肿瘤研究领域中的广泛开展,人们开始研究大肠癌微转移,以期获得更准确,更早期的转移信息,为临床分期及预后判断、辅助治疗提供更多的依据．随着分子生物学、分子免疫学的迅速发展．使大肠癌的淋巴结、血液、骨髓及各脏器等用常规组织学难以诊断的癌细胞微转移灶的检测成为可能．细胞角蛋白20(cytokeratin-20,CK20)是新近发现的一种多肽,局限在胃肠上皮细胞,具有严格的组织特异性,几乎所有大肠癌都明显表达,优于其他标志物,尤其实用于检测大肠癌微转移．通过检测大肠癌患者淋巴结、血液、骨髓中CK20 mRNA的表达来诊断微转移,对指导临床大肠癌的分期、判断预后复发、指导治疗显示出较高的临床应用价值．微转移是一项独立的预后指标．其价值优于 Dukes分期和肿瘤分级．现综述细胞角蛋白20 检测在大肠癌微转移中的临床应用及意义研究进展．     

Blood pressure control in dialysis patients: importance of the lag phenomenon

Failure by the world dialysis community to understand and use the dry-weight method of blood pressure (BP) control has resulted in an increasing incidence of treatment-resistant hypertension, which remains the principal cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. This failure may in part be because the relationship between the extracellular volume (ECV) and BP is not simple and linear, but complex, because of a lag of several weeks between the normalization of the time-averaged ECV and the decrease in BP. Another cause for this failure may be the unwillingness to taper and stop all antihypertensive medications during the transition from hypertension to normotension. In this report, we describe in detail the lag phenomenon, document its presence during treatment in other populations, and describe how this knowledge is used in the application of the dry-weight method of drug-free BP control in the dialysis population.     

Design and preliminary evaluation of an expert system for platelet request evaluation

In spite of growing awareness of the potential risks associated with transfusion, the number of platelet units transfused in the United States continues to increase each year. There is a growing interest in ensuring that all transfusions are administered for appropriate reasons. Prospective review of requests for transfusions has been used to accomplish this goal. Although successful in reducing the number of inappropriate transfusions, this review method requires great time commitments by blood bank personnel and physicians. A knowledge-based system (ESPRE) that aids hospital blood bank personnel in the review of requests for platelet transfusions has been developed. The system automatically obtains most of the required patient data via a direct link to the hospital's main laboratory computers. The system generates a printed report that includes a list of patient-specific data, a list of the conditions for which a transfusion would be appropriate for the particular patient (given the clinical condition), and the conclusions drawn by the system. During a preliminary clinical evaluation of ESPRE, 73 randomly selected platelet transfusion requests were evaluated for approval by laboratory personnel and ESPRE. Overall, ESPRE would have approved 71 of the requests and laboratory staff would have approved 72. Forty-four percent of the requests would have been approved for the same reasons given by the staff. There were only three disagreements on final approval between ESPRE and blood bank personnel. This computerized expert system is a promising approach to the prospective review of all platelet transfusions.