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Revista Brasileira de Reumatologia, 2011 JUSTIFICATIVA: Pacientes com artrite reumatoide (AR) têm manifestações extra-articulares em até 50% dos casos OBJETIVO: Estudar a prevalência das alterações pulmonares à tomografia computadorizada de alta resolução em pacientes com AR e sua associação ...
Thelma Larocca Skare +5 more
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BJS Open, Volume 4, Issue 5, Page 847-854, October 2020., 2020 Deconditioning during neoadjuvant chemotherapy is a possible parameter for predicting operative outcomes. This retrospective cohort study aimed to assess body composition changes in patients with gastro‐oesophageal cancer during neoadjuvant therapy and investigate their association with postoperative complications. Skeletal muscle index values decrease
R. B. den Boer +9 more
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Computerized Tomography Contrast Induced Nephropathy (CIN) among adult inpatients
Brazilian Journal of Nephrology, 2014 Introduction: Contrast induced nephropathy (CIN) is one of the complications of the use of intravascular contrast agents, being defined as a reduction of the glomerular filtration rate caused by the iodinated contrast.
Luciano Passamani Diogo +2 more
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Diagnostic accuracy of acute diverticulitis with unenhanced low‐dose CT
BJS Open, Volume 4, Issue 4, Page 659-665, August 2020., 2020 Unenhanced low‐dose CT (LDCT) is as accurate as contrast‐enhanced standard‐dose CT (SDCT) for detection of acute colonic diverticulitis. However, smaller complications, such as pericolic abscesses and small amounts of extraluminal air, can be missed.
A. Thorisson +5 more
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BJS Open, Volume 4, Issue 4, Page 587-592, August 2020., 2020 Fifty patients were enrolled and randomized to laparoscopic hernia repair with conventional fascial closure or a peritoneal bridging approach. Follow‐up by CT at 12 months (primary endpoint) revealed no seroma in either group, but seroma was detected clinically in the early postoperative period after 1 month (4 of 25 versus 0 of 25 patients in fascial ...
F. Ali +3 more
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BJS Open, Volume 4, Issue 3, Page 456-466, June 2020., 2020 This study investigated whether the total tumour volume (TTV) of colorectal liver metastases could predict patient survival after hepatic resection. Associations were identified between TTV and recurrence‐free survival, overall survival and unresectable recurrence after primary hepatic resection.
K. Tai +13 more
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Factors affecting mortality after traumatic brain injury in a resource‐poor setting
BJS Open, Volume 4, Issue 2, Page 320-325, April 2020., 2020 Traumatic brain injury (TBI) in 194 patients in a resource‐poor setting was analysed. Some 30·9 per cent had severe TBI, and associated skull fracture was observed in 8·8 per cent. Treatments offered were mainly conservative. The mortality rate was 33·0 per cent, with 72 per cent resulting from severe head injury.
R. Okidi +6 more
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Revista Brasileira de Oftalmologia, 2013 OBJETIVO:Correlacionar os níveis de straylight, de scattering, de opacidade do cristalino (LOCS III) e das aberrações ópticas intraoculares em pacientes com catarata nuclear.
Bruno Freitas Valbon +2 more
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Collateral blood vessels in acute ischemic stroke: a physiological window to predict future outcomes
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2016 Collateral circulation is a physiologic pathway that protects the brain against ischemic injury and can potentially bypass the effect of a blocked artery, thereby influencing ischemic lesion size and growth.
Heitor Castelo Branco Rodrigues Alves +2 more
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Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2008 OBJECTIVE: To identify which pediatric patients with mild head trauma are candidates for skull radiographs or cranial computed tomography (CCT) scans. METHOD: Patients with mild head trauma aged from 0 to 19 years presenting to the Emergency Department ...
José Roberto Tude Melo +8 more
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