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Lem@tic: décadas de histórias que ecoam para uma nova cultura matemática
Silva, Américo; Cabrita, IsabelSem resumo disponível.
Mesenteric Venous Thrombosis: a rare cause of bowel obstruction
Oliveira, Patrícia Horta; Oliveira, A. Horta; Costa, Marina; Silva, AméricoIntroduction: Mesenteric vein thrombosis is a rare cause of mesenteric ischaemia, potentially lethal. The clinical presentation is subtle and insidious, what makes diagnosis difficult in the early stage of disease. This condition exceptionally presents with bowel obstruction, which is due to the onset of an ischaemic stenosis, usually at the small intestine. Case report: The present article reports a case of me...
Acute necrosis of oesophagus.
Araújo, Ricardo; Castanheira, António; Machado, Joana; Ramalho, Ana; Cancela, Eugénia; Ministro, Paula; Silva, AméricoAcute esophageal necrosis is a very rare pathological entity, first described in 1990 by Goldenberg. The authors report the case of a patient of 79 years of age with this disease. The etiology of this type of esophageal injury is not yet well defined and has a reported mortality between 33 and 50% . We present this case by the rarity of the disease and the exuberance of endoscopic images in demonstration of thi...