Maria Augusta Machado,Isolina Aguiar,Teresa Nunes et al.
Maria Augusta Machado et al.
Lung abscess is a rare entity in childhood, but leads to high morbidity and long length of hospitalisation. It appears commonly in children with risk factors or other disease, have a good response to antibiotic therapy and it is rarely nece...
Vítor Sousa,Lina Carvalho
Vítor Sousa
The pulmonary sequestration corresponds to pulmonary tissue intra or extra-lobar with systemic arterial nutrition and collateral bronchial ramification. It is infrequent and the intra-lobar identification depends on the correct clinical sig...
Leopoldo Domínguez,Maria Helena Lucas,Margarida Cancela de Abreu
Leopoldo Domínguez
Lung is the preferential target organ of diseases associated with immunodeficiency virus infection. Taking into consideration that fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FB) with collection of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BAL) is a procedure of the high...
João Castaño,João Alpendre,João Martins Pisco
João Castaño
Pulmonary Embolism is often considered a difficult diagnosis to establish. It is important to recognise clinical situations that leads to it. There are a few laboratory and imaging tests, that should be tailored to the available facilities ...
Amélia Feliciano,Agostinho Costa,Maria José Melo
Amélia Feliciano
In this paper the authors reviews the anaemia in cancer patients, its mechanisms, diagnosis, and therapeutics, especially the indications for blood transfusion and the use of recombinant human erythropoietin. Also, the author reviews the im...
Cyro Teixeira da Silva Junior,Gilberto Perez Cardoso
Cyro Teixeira da Silva Junior
In the present paper, the authors reviews the endocrine and metabolic manifestations in bronchogenic carcinoma. Disorders as paraneoplastic syndromes (hypercalcemia, syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone, carcinoid and Cushing's sy...
Carlos Gomes,Stella Soares,Jaime Pina
Carlos Gomes
Objective: To calculate the costs of in hospital tuberculosis treatment and to compare the estimated charges of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and drug susceptible tuberculosis patients (TB). ...
[Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation of the lung or congenital pulmonary airway malformation] [0.03%]
先天性肺囊腺畸形或多发性肺囊肿
Vítor Sousa,Lina Carvalho
Vítor Sousa
The cystic adenomatoid malformation of the lung is an hamartomatous lesion, easily identifiable by its morphology through the application of Stocker's et al (1977) classification (type 1, 2 and 3) and also following the criteria of Yousem, ...
[Lung cancer and women] [0.03%]
[肺癌与女性]
E Teixeira,S Conde,P Alves et al.
E Teixeira et al.
The epidemiology of lung cancer has changed in the last years in several countries all over the world. In the 19th century, the lung cancer was rare but it incidence increase drastically during the 20th century, and the tendency is to conti...
[Sequential chemo-radiation in non-small cell lung cancer: a retrospective study of 100 patients] [0.03%]
晚期非小细胞肺癌序贯化放疗疗效分析
Luís Gaspar,E Teixeira,R Sotto-Mayor et al.
Luís Gaspar et al.
Combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy has shown to be the correct treatment of unresectable non-small cell lung cancer, after many years of poor survival figures with standard radiotherapy alone. It has also been demonstrated that the bene...