ABSTRACT
Colorectal cancer screening (CRC) disparities between non-Latino Whites and Latinos remain, and may have increased. The goal of this analysis was to examine the association between Latino race/ethnicity, gender, and English-proficiency and CRC screening. Analysis of the CDC's BRFSS 2008 survey. We estimated crude and adjusted screening rates and odds ratios of respondents' reported CRC test receipt stratified by self-reported Latino ethnicity, gender, and limited English proficiency (LEP) as determined by language of survey response (English vs Spanish). Of 99,883 respondents included in the study populations, LEP Latino men had the lowest adjusted screening rates (48.2%) which were lower that all other Latinos subgroups including Latina women with LEP (56.2%). Compared to non-Latino White men, LEP Latino men were 0.47 times as likely to report receiving CRC screening tests (AOR 0.47; 95% CI 0.35-0.63). Disparities in CRC screening are most dramatic for LEP Latino men.
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Colorectal Neoplasms/diagnosis , Communication Barriers , Hispanic or Latino , Language , Mass Screening , Sex Factors , Aged , Confidence Intervals , Early Detection of Cancer , Female , Health Care Surveys , Healthcare Disparities , Humans , Male , Mass Screening/statistics & numerical data , Middle Aged , United StatesSubject(s)
Cardiac Tamponade/etiology , Infant, Premature, Diseases/etiology , Parenteral Nutrition, Total/adverse effects , Parenteral Nutrition/adverse effects , Cardiac Tamponade/diagnostic imaging , Cardiomegaly/complications , Cardiomegaly/diagnostic imaging , Female , Humans , Infant, Low Birth Weight , Infant, Newborn , RadiographyABSTRACT
A 38-year-old woman who had a Cope needle biopsy of the pleura was treated for plural tuberculosis on the basis of a positive PPD-S skin test and presence of caseating granulomas in the pleural biopsy. Ten months later she developed a tender, subcutaneous nodule in the area of the previous needle biopsy. Surgical exploration revealed a dumbbell abscess through the chest wall communicating with an area of consolidation in the right middle lobe. En bloc surgical resection of the abscess and peripheral portion of the right middle lobe was curative, although all pathologic and cultural studies of the resected tissue were non-diagnostic.
