Metastatic Pleomorphic Sarcoma to Left Atrium

Although several thousand patients are diagnosed with sarcoma annually in the United States, metastases to the heart are very uncommon. In this case report, an overall low frequency cancer presents masquerading with common cardiac symptomology. This case illustrates the importance for detailed diagnostic cardiac evaluations and heightened suspicion by physicians to consider metastatic disease to the heart in cancer patients with cardiovascular complications. Also discussed is a review of surgical and chemotherapeutic options for this problem.

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Quality Control of Data in a Large-Scale Cancer Register Program

Methods of Information in Medicine ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1636339 ◽

1966 ◽

Vol 05 (02) ◽

pp. 67-74 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

W. I. Lourie ◽

W. Haenszeland

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Quality Control ◽

Cancer Patients ◽

Large Scale ◽

The United States ◽

Newly Diagnosed ◽

Related Data ◽

Cancer Register ◽

Independent Review ◽

End Results

Quality control of data collected in the United States by the Cancer End Results Program utilizing punchcards prepared by participating registries in accordance with a Uniform Punchcard Code is discussed. Existing arrangements decentralize responsibility for editing and related data processing to the local registries with centralization of tabulating and statistical services in the End Results Section, National Cancer Institute. The most recent deck of punchcards represented over 600,000 cancer patients; approximately 50,000 newly diagnosed cases are added annually.Mechanical editing and inspection of punchcards and field audits are the principal tools for quality control. Mechanical editing of the punchcards includes testing for blank entries and detection of in-admissable or inconsistent codes. Highly improbable codes are subjected to special scrutiny. Field audits include the drawing of a 1-10 percent random sample of punchcards submitted by a registry; the charts are .then reabstracted and recoded by a NCI staff member and differences between the punchcard and the results of independent review are noted.

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Complications of drowning: A case report

Paediatrica Indonesiana ◽

10.14238/pi59.5.2019.284-8 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 59 (5) ◽

pp. 284-8

Author(s):

Felicia Anita Wijaya ◽

I Gde Doddy Kurnia Indrawan

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Case Report ◽

Brain Damage ◽

The United States ◽

Accidental Death ◽

Common Cause ◽

Death By Drowning

Unintentional drowning is the sixth most common cause of accidental death, accounting for 4,086 deaths (1.4 per 100,000) in the United States in 2007.1 In children, drowning is the second leading cause of injury-related death, and those aged 1–3 years have the highest rate of drowning.2 More than 1,400 pediatric drownings were reported in the United States in 2008.3 Many drowning deaths are due to lack of supervision in the bathtub, unprotected access to a pool, or lack of swimming skills.3 For every death by drowning, six children are hospitalized for drowning, and up to 10% of survivors experience severe brain damage.2

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