Entrevista com Peta Tait - Dramaturga.Entrevista e tradução de Maria Brígida de Miranda e tradução de Júlia Oliveira.
Food wastes headed to landfills is still greater than desired and the long use of agrochemicals lead to agricultural and health problems. Composting could be a way of giving a new and valued purpose to those wastes paving the way to a more sustainable agriculture and global attitude towards resources (re)use. In this study, or- ganic composts N and G in different concentrations were used to fertilize lettuce an...
Os linfomas ósseos são pouco frequentes e raramente estão localizados à coluna vertebral, constituindo estas localizações geralmente manifestações secundárias. Os autores apresentam o caso clínico de uma doente de 58 anos de idade, com lombalgia mecânica de 6 semanas de evolução, sem resposta a terapêutica analgésica e anti-inflamatória e sem outras queixas acompanhantes. O estudo complementar revelou a existên...
Lymphomas of the bone are uncommon and only occasionally encountered in the spine, where they are usually secondary deposits.The authors report the case of a fifty-eightyear old woman with low back pain of six weeks duration, which did not improve with analgesics. Laboratory tests showed a normocytic anaemia and a raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Spinal X-Rays showed collapse of the L2 vertebra and increa...
Whipple’s Disease is a rare systemic disease caused by a Gram-positive bacillus: Tropheryma whippelii. Diagnosis is based on the clinical picture of arthralgia, weight loss, diarrhea and abdominal pain, symptoms which can often be attributed to other diseases.Longstanding rheumatic manifestations usually precede the digestive ones, as happened in this case, in which they began seven years prior to diagnosis.A s...
Pyogenic liver abscess is an infrequent clinica! entity, often with an atypical way of presentation, which contributes to a delay in diagnosis. Presently, aspiration and/or catheter drainage associated to antibiotic therapy, is the method of first choice in pyogenic liver abscess treatment. Surgery is indicated when medical treatment has failed, or in those patients requiring abdominal exploration. We report fo...