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Intraoperative echography in biliary tract surgery. A comparative study of intr...
Garcia, J P; Sousa, J T; Silva, E; Soares, E; Pedroso, C; Cid, M OWe report 3 years of experience with operative ultrasonography on 200 patients who underwent cholecystectomy for biliary lithiasis. Intraoperative ultrasonography and intraoperative cholangiography were performed on all of these patients and compared with the operative findings. The diagnostic accuracy of sonography was 98% and that of cholangiography 96% in the whole patient group. The predictive value of a po...
Rheumatic fever--exacerbation or decline? Analysis of patients admitted to a me...
Morais, F; Silva, G N; Santos, R M; Sousa, J T; Saavedra, J A; Da Costa, J NThe authors revised 116 clinical files of patients admitted to a Medicine ward with Rheumatic Fever in the years 1959-63 and 1979-83, in order to detect a possible recrudescence of the disease. The following parameters were analysed: age, sex, length of hospital stay, clinical manifestations, ancillary exams, therapeutics and evolution. It was found an impressive decline in the incidence of the disease (90 case...