Abstract INTRODUCTION: Dengue is an important mosquito-borne disease in tropical and subtropical regions. Adhesion molecules have not been systematically characterized in the renal tissue of patients with severe dengue (SD). The objective of this study was to detect viral antigens in samples from patients that evolved with SD, correlating with the expression of ICAM-1, VCAM-1, VE-cadherin, and E-selectin to con...
Lipoblastoma e lipoblastomatose são lesões tumorais benignas dos tecidos moles similares ao tecido adiposo fetal. Na literatura, apenas 16 casos de lipoblastoma na região do pescoço foram relatados e, destes, somente 3 foram descritos na região posterior do pescoço. Hibernomas são tumores benignos raros do tecido adiposo composto por células gordurosas marrons. Foram descritos cerca de dez casos desses tumores ...
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the distribution of molecular subtypes of breast tumors diagnosed in young Brazilian women and to analyze the frequency of loss of heterozygocity (LOH) in BRCA1 among different molecular subtypes of early-onset breast cancer. METHODS: Samples from 72 cases of invasive breast carcinoma diagnosed in women aged between 19 and 40 years were evaluated using an immunohistochemical panel of biom...