OBJETIVO: Conhecer a opinião dos acompanhantes de crianças de 2 a 12 anos de idade em tratamento quimioterápico sobre a Quimioteca Fundação Orsa. MÉTODOS: Trata-se de um estudo quantitativo descritivo. Realizaram-se entrevistas semi-estruturadas com 54 acompanhantes de crianças em tratamento quimioterápico ambulatorial. RESULTADOS: Na opinião desses acompanhantes, o ambiente colorido e cheio de brinquedos e a o...
A 22 year-old-man with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia had received prophylactic cranial irradiation and intrathecal chemotherapy. Eighteen years later a cerebellar glioblastoma multiforme was diagnosed. The authors speculate about the possibility that this tumor may have been radiation and/or chemotherapy induced. Improvement in neuroimaging techniques, in particular magnetic resonance imaging, has helped charac...
Vascular lesions with arteriovenous shunts are a heterogeneous group of diseases composed of three distinct pathological entities: adult type dural arteriovenous fistula, dural sinus malformations with arteriovenous shunts and juvenile type of dural arteriovenous fistula. We review the imaging and clinical features of a series of 51 patients, 48 with adult type dural arteriovenous fistula and 3 with dural sinus...
Arterial dissections result from longitudinal tear of the vessel wall produced by an intramural haematoma.We have retrospectively review 48 consecutive patients with 53 arterial dissections diagnosed by cerebral angiography and/or magnetic resonance imaging.Arterial dissections were extracranial in 88% (carotid in 58% and vertebral in 30%) and intracranial in 12% of cases, with 19% of multiple dissections. Extr...
Sturge-Weber Syndrome (SWS) is characterized by facial flammeus nevus, leptomeningeal angiomatosis and coroidal hemangioma and MRI and CT scans are used to disclose the angiomatosis and secondary brain lesions. We review the CT and/or MRI scan of 26 patients with SWS. In 75% of cases the SWS was unilateral and in 25% bilateral, being the angiomatosis more frequent on occipital lobe (93%) than on the parietal (8...
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