Osteochondroma: ignore or investigate?

Osteochondroma: ignore or investigate?☆

Osteochondromas are bone protuberances surrounded by a cartilage layer. They generally affect the extremities of the long bones in an immature skeleton and deform them. They usually occur singly, but a multiple form of presentation may be found. They have a very characteristic appearance and are easily diagnosed. However, an atypical site (in the axial skeleton) and/or malignant transformation ...

The incidental skeletal lesion: ignore or explore?

The 'leave me alone' bone lesions are very classical, and, as indicated by their name, do not require any further investigation. There are very typical cases, and there are also more difficult ones, and they can be especially difficult to manage if the patient has a known cancer.

The enigmatic sacro-coccygeal dimple: to ignore or explore?

How to act on inconsistent news: Ignore, resolve, or reject

Inconsistencies frequently occur in news about the real-world. Some of these inconsistencies may be more significant than others, and some news may contain more inconsistencies than others. This creates problems of deciding whether to act on these inconsistencies, and if so how. Possible actions on an inconsistency in a news report include ignore the inconsistency, resolve the inconsistency, an...

To Ignore or Explore: Top-Down Modulation of Novelty Processing

Abstract Attending to novelty is a critical element of human behavior and learning. Novel events can serve as task-irrelevant distracters or as potential sources of engagement by interesting or important aspects of one's environment. An optimally functioning brain should have the capacity to respond differentially to novel events depending on the circumstances in which they occur. In the presen...