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Treatment Of Post-Operative Chylothorax: The Role Of Intranodal Lymphangiograph...
Torres, Tiago Paulino; Costa, Pedro; Moreira, Herculano; Dionísio, Teresa; Sousa, PedroThoracic duct embolization has been increasingly adopted as a first-line therapy of chylothorax and this procedure includes lipiodol lymphangiography, thoracic duct access and embolization. Lymphangiography itself has a therapeutic role, with volume-dependent success rates of 37%-97% and even a reported 100% success rate in outputs of < 500 mL/day. We present a clinical case of a 48-years-old man diagnosed w...
E-Cadherin (CDH1) and p53 rather than SMAD4 and Caspase-10 germline mutations c...
Oliveira, Carla; Ferreira, Paulo; Nabais, Sérgio; Campos, Luísa; Ferreira, Ana; Cirnes, Luís; Alves, Catarina Castro; Veiga, Isabel; Fragoso, MariaApproximately 30% of all hereditary diffuse gastric cancer (HDGC) families carry CDH1 germline mutations. The other two thirds remain genetically unexplained and are probably caused by alterations in other genes. Using polymerase chain reaction (PCR)/single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP)/sequencing, we screened 32 Portuguese families with a history of gastric cancer and 23 patients with early onset gas...