Mediterranean spotted fever (MSF) is a disease caused by Rickettsia conorii and transmitted by the brown dog tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus. It is widely distributed through southern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. It is an emerging or a reemerging disease in some regions. Countries of the Mediterranean basin, such as Portugal, have noticed an increased incidence of MSF over the past 10 years. It was believ...
Twenty-two cases of treated Wilms tumor with more than two years of follow-up were classified according to Beckwith (favorable and unfavorable histology) and to Jereb & Sandstedt (histologic types I, II and III). The authors found a good correlation between histologic types I and II and prognosis (72% of the children with type I were free of tumor and of type II only 25%), but in type III no correlation was fou...
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