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VOLUME 2, ISSUE 3: SEPTEMBER 1996
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UNDIAGNOSED MALIGNANCY

PRACTICE POINTS:

Most cancers are at least 5 years old before they can be diagnosed.

A six month delay in treatment may be insufficient to alter the prognosis.


BREAST CANCER

PRACTICE POINT:

Prognostic Factors

A negative mammogram does not alter the need to biopsy a breast lump.

FIBROMYALGIA 1995-6

PRACTICE POINT:

While the biochemical mechanisms producing the symptoms of Fibromyalgia are being clarified, a causal connection with trauma is becoming more tenuous.

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Fibromyalgia 1997 (Medical Litigation News) Volume 3, Issue 8
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Fibromyalgia 1999- 2000 (Personal Injury News) Volume 6, Issue 4
Fibromyalgia 2001 (Personal Injury News) Volume 7, Issue 4


FENDER UNBENT

PRACTICE POINT:

Despite advances in Kinematics over the last few years, the science linking motor vehicles kinetics and bodily injury is in its infancy.

CATARACT SURGERY

PRACTICE POINT:

Potentially devastating complications of cataract surgery occur in the most experienced hands: delays in their prompt recognition and vigorous treatment may be actionable.

EYE ANESTHESIA

PRACTICE POINT:

Misplaced retrobulbar and peribulbar injections are often indefensible.

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