stupor/neoplasms

Although there are three kinds of stupor in psychiatry, dissociative stupor is the most commonly recognized. In psychiatric clinics or emergency rooms, dissociative stupor is common, but in an oncology setting it is hardly known. Therefore, distinguishing dissociative stupor from consciousness

OBJECTIVE Experimental in vivo radiotherapy frequently aims at the imitation of clinically applied fractionation schedules. However, the reliability of the anesthetic procedure and limited access to the treatment machines in clinical departments are major factors complicating the practical

In addition to progressive endocrine dysfunction and progressive visual loss, pituitary neoplasms may annouce their presence by the more catastrophic alternative of spontaneous tumor infarction. In two patients reported, illness due to the spontaneous infraction of pituitary tumors was heralded by

A case of an eighteen-month-old-infant who died in narcosis following an aortic obstruction by myxomatous tumour of the left ventricle is reported. Since his birth the infant exhibited cyanosis fits and cerebral manifestations due to an intermittent occlusion of the aorta. The result of the

Pelvic angiography was performed in 24 patients with primary or secondary tumours. 17 patients were submitted to arteriography and 7 to phlebography of the pelvis veins. An angiographic classification was established and compared to the pre-operative and histopathological results determining tumour

Based on the study of the late results of surgical treatment in 373 patients with gastric cancer, subjected to radical subtotal gastrectomy, it was found that a group of patients operated under fluothane anesthesia shows the highest survival rate. As evidenced by the authors' findings the use of

The evidence on the attitude of 60 cancer out-patients to fibrocolonoscopy carried out under general anesthesia was evaluated versus different procedures of intravenous injection. Most patients were scared prior to examination; 83.3% felt sleepy during the procedure while 85% of those anesthetized

A study was undertaken in 403 patients suspected on rectal examination of carcinoma of the prostate, comparing the accuracy of cytological examination after aspiration biopsy with a Franzen's needle and transrectal punch biopsy for histological diagnosis. The results indicated 93.35% cytological

Between 10.01.1997 and 09.30.1999 authors performed operations on 78 patients who had nonpalpable breast tumors. If mammography was considered abnormal during breast screening program patients were recalled. Besides clinical investigation complimentary mammograms were performed. After sonogram, and

The Authors report a rare case of a 57 years old man affected by a left radial nerve schwannoma that occurred as an asymptomatic lesion of the axilla. At clinical examination the lump was undistinguishable from the most common axillary lymphadenopathy. A lymphoadenopathy was erroneously diagnosed

In 1989, we reorganized acute and rehabilitation cares for patients operated for non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in order to decrease costs by setting up a specialised intermediate care unit (SICU). This report deals with the postoperative complications and the total cost of these cares (SICU,