As epidermólises bolhosas (EB) hereditárias são um grupo heterogéneo de doenças bolhosas geneticamente determinadas. Caracterizam-se clinicamente por fragilidade mucocutânea que se traduz pela formação de 1,2 bolhas após traumatismos mínimos. Nas formas distróficas, principalmente na forma recessiva, as lesões cutâneas evoluem de forma crónica levando à formação de múltiplas cicatrizes atróficas e estão associa...
Cranial computed-tomographies (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of 14 patients with AIDS and central nervous system toxoplasmosis (CNST) were reviewed. In spite of the low specificity of CT and MRI findings in CNS mass lesions of AIDS patients, there are some features which have been observed as more typical of CNST, namely: 94.9% of the lesions were round shaped and 94.5% had ring or nodular enhancemen...
In this work, 139 intra-cranial aneurysms diagnosed at the Egas Moniz Hospital were studied, from 1980 to the first quarter of 1992. The nature of this type of lesions was discussed, and aneurysms were defined as an abnormal and segmental dilatation of an intracranial artery wall. A statistical study was performed, including 67 cases after selection, corresponding to 71 aneurysms. Of these, 39% originated from ...