Extrusão do cateter peritoneal pela vagina. Complicação rara de derivação ventriculoperitoneal

Cholangiocarcinoma Seeding along a Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Catheter: A Rare Initial Manifestation Metástase cutânea de colangiocarcinoma no trajeto do cateter da derivação ventriculoperitoneal: Relato de caso

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Inferindo as emoções do usuário pela face através de um sistema psicológico de codificação facial

This paper presents a computing system to infer anger, fear, disgust, surprise, joy, and sadness emotions from user’s facial expressions through a webcam. The emotion detection is based on a facial psychological system, the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), and uses machine learning algorithms for its execution. Experiments using this system reached 60% success in average, achieving a success...

Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Peritoneal Catheter Knot Formation

The ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt is a common procedure in pediatric neurosurgery that carries a risk of complications at cranial and abdominal sites. We report on the case of a child with shunt infection and malfunction. The peritoneal catheter was tethered within the abdominal cavity, precluding its removal. Subsequently, laparoscopic exploration identified a knot at the distal end of the p...

Pan-hipopituitarismo causado pela granulomatose de Wegener

Wegener’s granulomatosis (WG) is a multi-system necrotizing granulomatous vasculitis which classically affects the upper respiratory tract, lungs and kidneys. Pituitary participation has been described in 24 patients in the literature to date. The aim of this article is to report a case of pituitary involvement in WG, and to present a literature review on this association. We present a female p...