Queries 2

August 5, 2009 · Posted in Uncategorized · Comments Off 

Mitral Stenosis


75 MITRAL STENOSIS
David A. Fullerton M.D., Glenn J.R. Whitman M.D.

1. What causes mitral stenosis?

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Rheumatic fever.

2. Which gender most commonly gets mitral stenosis?

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Women by a ratio of 3:2.

3. What are the physical findings of mitral stenosis?

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On ascultation, an opening snap and a diastolic murmer are heard best at the apex.

Prostate Cancer


97 PROSTATE CANCER
Brett B. Abernathy M.D.

1. How common is prostate cancer?

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It is the most common malignancy diagnosed in men in the United States; almost 200,000 new cases were diagnosed in 2001.

Primary Therapy For Breast Cancer


62 PRIMARY THERAPY FOR BREAST CANCER
Benjamin O. Anderson M.D.

1. How is breast cancer diagnosed?

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A diagnosis requires tissue confirmation by needle sampling or surgical biopsy. Excisional biopsy is the gold standard: the preferred initial diagnostic method has become core-needle biopsy or fine-needle aspiration (FNA). Needle sampling (1) allows complete operative planning, including decisions about lumpectomy margins or the use of sentinel node mapping and (2) does not distort the breast shape or architecture for future clinical breast examination (CBE) and breast imaging.