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Evaluación de la radiación recibida por personal y pacientes durante la CPRE en el Uruguay

BACKGROUND: The ERCP procedure requires the use of fluoroscopy with the subsequent exposure to ionizing radiation. The doses received by patients, physicians and assistants in the endoscopy have never been recorded in our area. This analysis describes the findings of the MIRED_Uy study (measuring radiati...

Simple predictive model for early childhood caries of chilean children
Simple predictive model for early childhood caries of chilean children.

INTRODUCTION: Early Childhood Caries (ECC), in both industrialized and developing countries, is the most prevalent chronic disease in childhood and it is still a health public problem, affecting mainly populations considered as vulnerable, despite being preventable. Objective The purpose of this study wa...

Evaluación objetiva de competencias técnicas en cirugía
[Evaluation of technical skills in surgical training].

INTRODUCTION: technical skills acquisition is considered to be of paramount importance in surgical training. Yet, formal assessment of technical skills is the weakest and less developed area. Currently available resources to evaluate technical skills are largely subjective, and lack of validity and relia...

Pacientes hospitalizadas por ideación e intento de suicidio en un Hospital de Salud Mental: características clínico-demográficas y seguimiento a seis meses
[Patients hospitalized for suicidal ideation and suicide attempt in a Mental Health Hospital: Clinicodemographical features and 6-month follow-up].

BACKGROUND: Suicide is an issue of high public health impact. In Argentina there are few published studies on suicide and suicide attempt. OBJECTIVE: To determine the percentage of hospitalizations caused by suicidal attempt or suicidal ideation in a Mental Health Hospital of the City of Buenos Aires, de...

The detection and significance of minimal residual disease in chronic myeloid leukemia

Medicina (B.Aires); 60 Suppl 2 (), 2000
The focus of the study of minimal residual disease (MRD) is to redefine the concept of remission by using more sensitive molecular techniques to detect level of disease burden below that of conventional pathology. The detection of the chimeric bcr-abl mRNA transcript in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is ...

Tratamiento médico de 44 pacientes con carcinoma del conducto anal. Intergrupo Argentino para el Tratamiento de los Tumores Gastro-Intestinales (IATTGI)
[Medical treatment of 44 patients with anal canal carcinoma. Argentinian Intergroup for the treatment of gastrointestinal tumors (IATTGI)]

Medicina (B.Aires); 55 (3), 1995
In order to investigate the medical treatment of anal canal carcinoma (ACC), 27 patients (pts) were treated with cisplatin, fluorouracil and radiotherapy, in an alternating schedule. Eleven pts received mitomycin C, fluorouracil and radiotherapy, in a concurrent scheme. Finally, six pts were included in ...

Sífilis congénita precoz
Early congenital syphilis

Arch. argent. pediatr; 67 (1), 1969
Se analiza la casuítica de sífilis congénita precoz que se internara en nuestro servicio en el último decenio, constituida por 30 niños cuya edad osciló entre 19 días y 11 meses detallándose las principales características de su sintomatología, análisis complementarios y evolución intrahospit...