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Apendicitis aguda
Acute appendicitis

Con el uso de las imágenes de creciente sensibilidad, el número de pacientes con diagnóstico de apendicitis ha aumentado, y una significativa proporción de ellos puede no progresar a apendicitis clínicamente relevante o puede resolver espontáneamente y evitar la apendicectomía. Existen reglas de p...

Coexistence of resistance to thyroid hormone and ectopic thyroid: ten-year follow-up

SUMMARY Resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH) coexisting with ectopic thyroid is rare. Here we report a case of RTH with ectopic thyroid. A ten-year-old girl had been misdiagnosed as congenital hypothyroidism and treated with levothyroxine since she was born. Ten-year follow-up showed that the elevated thy...

Perception of stroke symptoms and utilization of emergency medical services

Arq. neuropsiquiatr; 74 (11), 2016
ABSTRACT Lack of stroke awareness and slow activation of emergency medical services (EMS) are frequently reported reasons for delayed arrival to the hospital. We evaluated these variables in our population. Methods Review of hospital records and structured telephone interviews of 100 consecutive stroke...

High frequency of asymptomatic hyperparathyroidism in patients with fibromyalgia: random association or misdiagnosis?

Rev. bras. reumatol; 56 (5), 2016
ABSTRACT Fibromyalgia (FM) and hyperparathyroidism may present similar symptoms (musculoskeletal pain, cognitive disorders, insomnia, depression and anxiety), causing diagnostic confusion. Objectives: To determine the frequency of asymptomatic hyperparathyroidism in a sample of patients with FM and to e...

Importance of multidisciplinary approach in diagnosis of histoplasmosis

An. bras. dermatol; 91 (3), 2016
Abstract: A patient with systemic involvement, initially treated as tuberculosis, is presented in this report. There were only two painful subcutaneous nodules, from which we arrived at the correct diagnosis of histoplasmosis. The patient was attended by several experts in the fields of infectious diseas...

Importancia del control de la calidad de la baciloscopia en los laboratorios de diagnóstico de tuberculosis

Rev. chil. infectol; 33 (3), 2016
Introducción: La baciloscopia es la herramienta primaria en el diagnóstico de la tuberculosis (TBC) pulmonar activa, siendo esta la técnica más utilizada internacionalmente en la búsqueda de casos infecciosos. El control de calidad consiste en la relectura de las láminas por un observador altamente...

A lesson learnt: retrospection in a case of pilomatricoma mimicking as parotid neoplasm

Einstein (Säo Paulo); 14 (1), 2016

Location and classification of Canalis sinuosus for cone beam computed tomography: avoiding misdiagnosis

Braz. oral res. (Online); 30 (1), 2016
Abstract The aim of this study was to assess the presence, location and, multiplanar distance of the canalis sinuosus (CS) between the incisive foramen and the anterior maxillary alveolar ridge using cone beam computed tomography (CBCT). Therefore, 500 CBCT maxillary images obtained from male and female ...

Agreement between clinical and histopathologic diagnoses and completeness of oral biopsy forms

Braz. oral res. (Online); 30 (1), 2016
Abstract The present study aimed to assess the rate of agreement between clinical and histopathological diagnoses and to report the frequency of completed forms for specimens that were subjected to histopathological examination and retrospectively examined. Data from 8,168 specimens submitted to histopat...

Interobserver variability in histological diagnosis of serrated colorectal polyps

Objectives: To compare the interobserver variability in the diagnostic of serrated and non- serrated adenomatous lesions and hyperplastic polyps of colon between two groups of pathologists. Methods: 310 colorectal polyps were studied, with histological diagnoses established by a group of pathologists com...