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Central nervous system hemorrhage in thrombocytopenic patients: computed tomogr...
Gasparetto,Emerson L.; Benites Filho,Paulo R.; Davaus,Taísa; Carvalho Neto,Arnolfo deOBJETIVE: To describe the CT scan findings of 21 thrombocytopenic patients with central nervous system (CNS) hemorrhage. METHOD: Retrospective study of the computed tomography (CT) of 21 platelet-depleted patients with CNS hemorrhage. One patient presented two episodes of hemorrhagic episode with different intervals. The clinical data were obtained by the review of the medical records. Two radiologists analyzed...
Comparative study of abnormalities of central nervous system in children and ad...
Benites Filho,Paulo R.; Almeida,Luis G. M. Pinto de; Zanis Neto,José; Pasquini,Ricardo; Bleggi-Torres,Luiz F.BACKGROUND: We compare neuropathological abnormalities in children and adults after bone marrow transplantation (BMT) by means of autopsy in the Department of Medical Pathology, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Brazil. METHODS: Autopsy reports of 180 patients were reviewed. They were divided in two groups: patients under 15 years old and those 15 or older. Age, gender, clinical diagnosis at time of BMT, s...
Lipossarcoma mixóide de mediastino: relato de caso e revisão da literatura
Escuissato,Dante L.; Adam,Guilherme P.; Gasparetto,Emerson L.; Benites Filho,Paulo R.; Urban,Linei A.B.D.; Sakamoto,Daniele; Marchiori,EdsonAs neoplasias mediastinais de origem mesenquimal são raras, representando menos de 6% dos casos. A maioria são lipossarcomas, apesar da aparência cística ser incomum. Os autores apresentam um caso de paciente feminina com 58 anos de idade, com queixa de dispnéia, com piora progressiva desde os 52 anos. Estridor laríngeo era auscultado durante o exame físico, e a tomografia computadorizada de tórax demonstrou um...
Septo-optic dysplasia plus: case report
Gasparetto,Emerson L.; Warszawiak,Danny; Carvalho Neto,Arnolfo de; Benites Filho,Paulo R.; Bruck,Isac; Antoniuk,SérgioSepto-optic dysplasia (SOD) is a syndrome composed by optic nerve and septum pellucidum dysgenesis. It has been classified into two subsets according to the embryogenesis and the neuropathological findings. Basically, the difference between these two groups is the presence or not of schizencephaly. The term SOD-Plus was recently proposed to describe SOD associated with cortical dysplasia. We report a 6-month-ol...