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Conservative surgery in pancreatic solid pseudo papillary tumor.
Roque, Rita; Pina, António; Soares, Carmo; Martinho, António; Messias, Humberto; Nogueira, M; Martins, A PWe report the case of a 18-year-old girl having a solid pseudopapillary pancreatic tumor. The patient underwent local enucleation of the tumor located on pancreatic head and remained free of recurrence on the 5th year of follow up. Surgical management is discussed.; We report the case of a 18-year-old girl having a solid pseudopapillary pancreatic tumor. The patient underwent local enucleation of the tumor loca...
Cyclosporin A--a therapeutic alternative in giant-cell arteritis?.
Sampaio, J; Pais, M J; Lebre, L; Sousa, A; Martins, A P; Simões, JCyclosporine A (CyA) is an immune modulator that may treat immune diseases. The authors present two cases of temporal arteritis treated with CyA; the two patients improved very quickly and after the first six or eight weeks of treatment there were no clinical or laboratory signs of inflammation. As to adverse effects there was a moderate increase in serum creatinine and arterial pressure levels which were contr...
Acute appendicitis in children.
Gonçalves, M; Martins, A P; Leal, M JFrom January 1st, 1987 to December 31st, 1989, 267 patients were operated upon for acute appendicitis representing 97% of emergency laparotomies at the Pediatric Surgery Department of Santa Maria Hospital (HSM); of these, 207 records were analysed using a retrospective protocol and the results were as follows: most frequent symptoms were abdominal pain (99% of cases) and anorexia (86%). Referral for surgical ev...