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1. Repurposing super saturated potassium iodide as an adjunctive treatment in mucormycosis: An exposition in a diabetic patient with rhino‐orbital disease with cutaneous extension

Author

Purnima Malhotra, Pooja Arora, Ankur Majumder, Aastha Agarwal, Kabir Sardana, Ankur Gupta, and Sachin Goel

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, Antifungal Agents, business.industry, Mucormycosis, Potassium Iodide, chemistry.chemical_element, Dermatology, General Medicine, Iodine, medicine.disease, Orbital disease, chemistry, Adjunctive treatment, Diabetes Mellitus, Orbital Diseases, Humans, Medicine, Diabetic patient, business, Repurposing
Published
2021

3. Hydroxychloroquine-induced erythroderma: A rare adverse effect of a commonly used drug

Author

Priyadharshini Kathirvel, Aastha Agarwal, Anusha Katare, Arvind Ahuja, and Ananta Khurana

Subjects
Drug, medicine.medical_specialty, Letter, Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions, media_common.quotation_subject, MEDLINE, Erythroderma, Dermatology, Medicine, Humans, Drug reaction, Letters, Adverse effect, media_common, business.industry, Hydroxychloroquine, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Pharmaceutical Preparations, Drug Eruptions, business, Dermatitis, Exfoliative, medicine.drug
Published
2020

4. Understanding and Practices of Gynaecologists Related to Breast Cancer Screening, Detection, Treatment and Common Breast Diseases: A Study from India

Author

Aastha Agarwal, Vinod Jain, Gitika N. Singh, and Priti Kumar

Subjects
Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, India, Breast Neoplasms, Benign breast diseases, 03 medical and health sciences, Breast cancer screening, 0302 clinical medicine, Breast cancer, Obstetrics and gynaecology, Risk Factors, Surveys and Questionnaires, medicine, Humans, Practice Patterns, Physicians', Early Detection of Cancer, Aged, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Obstetrics, Middle Aged, Vascular surgery, medicine.disease, Cross-Sectional Studies, Gynecology, Cardiothoracic surgery, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Female, 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology, Surgery, Clinical Competence, business, Uttar pradesh, Abdominal surgery
Abstract

The knowledge of breast cancer risk factors and screening practices in a community is largely influenced by the practising gynaecologist in that area. We assessed the understanding and knowledge of gynaecologists about breast cancer: screening, risk factors, clinical signs, management and common benign breast diseases. This cross-sectional study was carried out in Uttar Pradesh, India, from April to September 2017. One hundred and fifty-two gynaecologists were assessed using a self-designed and validated questionnaire to assess the knowledge of risk factors, clinical signs, screening practices and management of breast cancer as well as common benign breast diseases. Further, the results were compared based on their education: undergraduates (UGs; no residency experience in obstetrics and gynaecology) versus postgraduates (PGs; residency experience in obstetrics and gynaecology). 67 and 82.2% of gynaecologists possess excellent to very good knowledge of risk factors and clinical signs of breast cancer, respectively. The knowledge of PGs seems to be better than UGs (p

Published
2018

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