Os tumores de células germinativas (TCG) do mediastino, são neoplasias raras dentro das lesões com esta localização. Classificam-se em seminomas puros, TCG não seminomatosos malignos e teratomas. A transformação maligna de um teratoma à custa do seu componente somático com degenerescência em sarcoma ou carcinoma é uma entidade ainda mais rara. Descrevemos um caso clínico de um homem de 32 anos de idade com quad...
Hypertensive encephalopathy is a neurologic syndrome caused by a marked and rapid rise of blood pressure above baseline levels. Efficacy of current anti-hypertensive drugs greatly diminished the frequency of this situation in which diagnosis is essentially based on clinical parameters. This can justify the few papers found in radiologic literature. Nevertheless it is sometimes important to exclude ischemic or h...
Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is the most frequent parasitic disease of the central nervous system. Other Portuguese works showed it to be endemic in the north of our country. The purpose of this paper is to aid the characterization of NCC in the geographic area of our Institution. We retrospectively reviewed the findings of computed tomography (CT) in 35 patients with NCC, including 23 adults and 12 children. There...
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