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Metastasis of Malignant Melanoma in the Penile Urethra: A Rare Entity!

Melanoma of the urogenital tract is extremely rare, accounting for less than 0.1% of melanoma cases. Currently, the literature describes only 220 cases of penile melanoma, most commonly located in the glans. The main challenge in penile melanoma, in addition to determining the cutaneous or mucosal origin, is early detection. The disease appears as a painless, pigmented lesion that gradually grows and then ulcer...

O estado da arqueologia em Portugal: uma reflexão interna

Reflexão interna de um conjunto de arqueólogos do Instituto de Gestão do Património Arquitetónico e Arqueológico (IGESPAR) sobre a reestruturação orgânica em curso na área da arqueologia

Acute kidney injury after endovascular therapy in acute stroke patients: system...

Aims Endovascular therapy (EVT) is a highly effective stroke treatment, but it requires the administration of contrast media which puts patients at risk of acute kidney injury (AKI). AKI is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in cardiovascular patients. Methods PubMed, Scopus, ISI and the Cochrane Library were systematically searched for observational and experimental studies assessing the occurre...

Complete blood count parameters as biomarkers of retinopathy of prematurity: a ...

Purpose: To evaluate complete blood count (CBC) parameters in the first week of life as predictive biomarkers for the development of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Methods: Multicenter, prospective, observational study of a cohort of preterm infants born with gestational age (GA) < 32 weeks or birth weight < 1500 g in eight Portuguese neonatal intensive care units. All demographic, clinical, and laboratory d...

Small bowel intussusception secondary to metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a cas...

Bowel intussusception is rare in adults and is usually driven by an underlying pathological process affecting the bowel. Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the most common type of kidney cancer and its disease course, depending on the initial histology and disease stage, can metastasize to adrenal glands, lungs, bones, brains and contralateral kidney that can be challenging to follow. We present the case of a patien...

Etiological Investigation of Stroke in Young Adults

The incidence of stroke in young adults has been increasing in recent decades, resulting in more and more hospitalizations. Likewise, the weight of traditional cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension, dyslipidemia, smoking, obesity and sedentary lifestyle seems to be increasing, in detriment of other rarer risk factors, classically associated with stroke in this age group. The list of possible etiologi...

Nationwide Access to Endovascular Treatment for Acute Ischemic Stroke in Portugal

Introduction: Since the publication of endovascular treatment trials and European Stroke Guidelines, Portugal has re-organized stroke healthcare. The nine centers performing endovascular treatment are not equally distributed within the country, which may lead to differential access to endovascular treatment. Our main aim was to perform a descriptive analysis of the main treatment metrics regarding endovascular ...

Nationwide Access to Endovascular Treatment for Acute Ischemic Stroke in Portugal

Introduction: Since the publication of endovascular treatment trials and European Stroke Guidelines, Portugal has re-organized stroke healthcare. The nine centers performing endovascular treatment are not equally distributed within the country, which may lead to differential access to endovascular treatment. Our main aim was to perform a descriptive analysis of the main treatment metrics regarding endovascular ...

Orla. Experimentações em narrativa sequencial

ORLA é uma exposição e uma publicação online que resultam de alguns trabalhos propostos pelos alunos, em consequência de exercícios e reflexões realizados no contexto da UC Ilustração e Narrativa Visual, do 1 ° semestre do 1 ° ano da Licenciatura em Artes Plásticas.

Intervenções intersectoriais em indicadores de saúde de adolescentes