Os autores descrevem dois casos clínicos (pai e filha), que recorreram ao Serviço de Urgência com tremor das extremidades, ansiedade, palpitações, náuseas, cefaleias e tonturas, duas horas após ingestão de fígado de vaca. Analiticamente apresentavam leucocitose com neutrofilia, hipocaliémia e hiperglicémia. Após tratamento com potássio e.v. e propranolol, houve desaparecimento da sintomatologia no SU. Os sintom...
The A.A. describe the case of a 49-year-old man, previously diagnosed as having migrainewith aura and essential hypertension, who came to the emergency room because he experiencedsyncope after suddenly feeling abdominal pain.In the hospital three episodes of liquid bloody stools were reported. The patient had experienced fronto-occipital headaches during the week prior to admission and had self-medicated with a...
Metastatic gastric tumors are rare but frequently difficult to diagnose. The authors describe two cases of gastric metastasis, in which the primary tumor was known in one case (squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx) and unknown in the other (cutaneous melanoma). The importance of immunohisto chemistry techniques with regard to diagnosis is underlined and a brief bibliographic review of the subject is made.; Os...