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Endometrial serous adenocarcinoma: A case study

Endometrial adenocarcinoma is one of the most frequent malignant neoplasms of the female genital tract in Western Europe and North America. More than 90% of cases occur in women over 50 years-old, however, 4% of cases occur before 40 years-old. The present clinical case concerns a 74 years-old woman with blood loss, a vaginal ulcerated lesion, and an enlarged uterus. She consequently underwent a colpocytology, ...

Cystic Adenoid Carcinoma of Bartholin’s Gland: Case Report of a Distant Metastasis

Adenoid cystic carcinoma in Bartholin’s gland is a rare malignant gynecologic tumor that appears as a solid lesion, movable and painful, with slow growth. It is a tumor associated with frequent local recurrence and metastasis, which can occur several years after the primary lesion. The clinical diagnosis includes cystic lesion or abscess. However, it has a very particular morphologic presentation, which allows ...

PROJECT FIGHT 2 - Development of an Edible Bait Vaccine to Control Rabbit Haemo...

PROJECT FIGHT-TWO - EDIBLE BAIT VACCINE FOR RABBIT HAEMORRHAGIC DISEASE VIRUS 2 (RHDV2) CONTROL IN WILD RABBITS Carina L. Carvalho1,2, Madalena Monteiro1, Paulo Carvalho1, Paula Mendonça1, Jorge Correia3, Berta São Brás, Conceição Peleteiro 2, Elsa Duarte3, António Mira3, Sandra Branco 3, António Roldão4, Margarida D. Duarte1,2 1-Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária Av. da República, Quinta ...

Importância da citologia na deteção de lesões do endométrio

O presente estudo reporta a citologia de uma mulher de 66 anos, que apresenta um epitélio atrófico com fundo inflamatório. Identificaram-se agregados tridimensionais de células glandulares com sobreposição celular, anisocariose, aumento nuclear, hipercromasia moderada, presença de nucléolos e cromatina grosseira, irregularmente distribuída. O diagnóstico citológico foi de células glandulares atípicas sem outra ...

Carcinoma adenoescamoso: um estudo de caso em citologia ginecológica

O carcinoma adenoescamoso é um tumor raro que representa cerca de 4% dos tumores cervicais. Este carcinoma ocorre maioritariamente em mulheres com cerca de 50 anos, podendo ocorrer em mulheres mais jovens e está também associado ao estado de gravidez e à infeção pelo Papiloma Vírus Humano.No presente trabalho, relata-se o caso de uma mulher de 45 anos, com coitorragias e uma lesão dura, elevada e hemorrágica no...

Mandibular Resorption and Vocal Cord Paralysis: a Catastrophic Form of Systemic...

Sudden respiratory distress in association with severe weight loss are unusual features of systemic sclerosis (SSc). We report the case of a 56-year-old Caucasian woman with a 9-year history of a diffuse form of SSc who presented with acute stridor due to vocal cord paralysis and required an emergency tracheostomy. She had sought medical attention only after 4 years of disease onset, presenting with a mask-like...

MRI of Gastric Cancer: T and N Staging with Pathologic Correlation

Genotoxic effects in occupational exposure to formaldehyde: A study in anatomy ...

ABSTRACT – Background: According to the Report on Carcinogens, formaldehyde ranks 25th in the overall U.S. chemical production, with more than 5 million tons produced each year. Given its economic importance and widespread use, many people are exposed to formaldehyde environmentally and/or occupationally. Presently, the International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies formaldehyde as carcinogenic to human...

Cardiac Angiosarcoma. A Review

Based on a case of a patient with angiosarcoma (AS) of the right atrium with superior vena cava syndrome associated with urticaria and polyarthralgias, who died soon after surgery, the authors present a brief review of the subject of cardiac AS, an extremely rare pathology, usually diagnosed late due to its non-specific symptomatology. Several topics are discussed, including mechanisms of clinical manifestation...

Abcessos Renais - Revisão

Baseados num caso de associação de abcessos renal, perirrenal e de quisto renal infectado, ocorrendo após biopsia prostática, os autores fazem revisão bibliográfica dos abcessos renais, classificados segundo características anatómicas perinéfrico, cortical e cortico- -medular (nefrite bacteriana aguda focal/multifocal, pielonefrite enfisematosa e pielonefrite xantogranulomatosa). Os abcessos renais são mais fre...