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Melanoma: when dermoscopy is a pitfall

Bullous pemphigoid and comorbidities: a case-control study in Portuguese patients

BACKGROUND: Although rare, bullous pemphigoid (BP) is the most common autoimmune blistering disease. Recent studies have shown that patients with bullous pemphigoid are more likely to have neurological and psychiatric diseases, particularly prior to the diagnosis of bullous pemphigoid. OBJECTIVE: The aims were: (i) to evaluate the demographic and clinical features of bullous pemphigoid from a database of patien...

Melanoma: when dermoscopy is a pitfall

Conservative treatment of penile carcinoma - a retrospective study of 10 years

Conservative treatment of penile squamous cell carcinoma has been advocated as a method of choice for tumours at early stages. Thirty patients with a mean age of 63.2 years were treated with CO2 laser ablation, radical local excision with preputial flap, direct closure or healing by secondary intention, circumcision alone or associated with CO2 laser and topical imiquimod. Sixteen patients had local recurrence....

Specific Dermatoses of Pregnancy

During pregnancy immunological, metabolic, hormonal and vascular changes occur, and can cause specific skin diseases. The specific dermatoses of pregnancy have undergone numerous changes in nomenclature and classification, partly due to advances in the knowledge of the pathogenesis of these skin diseases. Currently the following diseases are considered specific dermatoses of pregnancy: pemphigoid gestations, po...

Nuclear medicine training and practice in Portugal

Nuclear medicine in Portugal has been an autonomous speciality since 1984. In order to obtain the title of Nuclear Medicine Specialist, 5 years of training are necessary. The curriculum is very similar to the one approved under the auspices of the European Union of Medical Specialists, namely concerning the minimum recommended number of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. There is a final assessment, and dur...

Kerion Caused by Microsporum Audouinii in a Child

Kerion celsi is rarely associated with Microsporum audouinii infection. We report the case of a 3-year-old girl with a kerion celsi caused by M. audouinii and successfully treated with oral terbinafine. Fungi identification was made by macro and microscopical colony morphology analyses and molecular (genotypic) studies.

Validação cruzada da versão portuguesa do Índice de Funcionamento Sexual Feminino

Introdução: O constructo de ciclo de resposta sexual constitui um modelo de trabalho essencial no campo do estudo da sexualidade feminina. Objectivo: A presente investigação teve como objectivo proceder à validação cruzada duma versão portuguesa do Índice de Funcionamento Sexual Feminino (FSFI), instrumen¬to multidimensional que avalia as diversas fases associadas ao ciclo de resposta sexual em mulheres. Mate...

Biological assemblages of three new mud volcanoes along deep-reaching transform...

Previous work on the Gulf of Cadiz (S Iberian Margin) has revealed several mud volcanoes sitting on the accretionary wedge and aligned along west-east trending transform faults. The source of fluids in these mud volcanoes is several kilometres below the seafloor and their geochemical composition indicates that they are affected, in different degrees, by oceanic crust alteration, implying that there is active fl...

Mastocitose Cutânea na Infância. Estudo Retrospectivo de 32 Doentes

Introdução: A designação de mastocitose engloba várias entidades clinicamente distintas caracterizadas pela acumulação tissular de mastócitos. A pele é o órgão mais frequentemente envolvido. Consideram-se 4 padrões clínicos de mastocitose cutânea: urticária pigmentosa (UP), mastocitose cutânea difusa, mastocitoma e telangiectasia macularis eruptiva perstans. Na infância, a doença é habitualmente autolimitada e ...