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Posts from December 2009

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December 14, 2009
6:09 pm

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General

This is your cancer

Several months ago a gentleman walked into my office and introduced himself. The name sounded familiar but I couldn’t recall the context where I had read it or heard it before. Without mentioning how I could help him he mentioned that I had read his biopsy the week before and he would like to see [...]

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December 8, 2009
7:41 pm

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General, Informatics

Computers don’t save hospitals money?

Came across an interesting story from Computerworld about an a study out of Harvard that claims EMRs may not be all we think they are: Computerworld – A Harvard Medical School study that looked at some of the nation’s “most wired” hospital facilities found that computerization of those facilities hasn’t saved them any money or [...]

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December 8, 2009
7:38 pm

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Cases, Microbiology

Case of the Week 33

Case removed for publication.

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December 8, 2009
7:37 pm

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Cases, Microbiology

Answer to Case of the Week 32

Answer: Protoscoleces and hooklets of Echinococcus spp. The fact that this is a single cystic mass, and that protoscoleces are present suggests that this is E. granulosus instead of E. multilocularis, but clinical and radiographic correlation is necessary for definitive speciation. E. granulosus typically produces a single, slowly growing cyst, that may eventually contain one [...]

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