: Navajo . Fred J. Pain, Jr., Mike Pain, Chris Weber.

Editorial: Anthony J. Thomas Jr.

In November, 5th, 2017, on the day Dr. Anthony J. Thomas Jr. would turn 74, he passed away. He was an internationally recognized reputed urologist, that popularized microsurgery in the urological community. Tony was a great friend of Brazilian Urology. He opened the doors of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation to Brazilian urologists. When he introduced me to his colleagues during meetings, he alwa...

The Mathematics of F. J. Almgren Jr

Frederick Justin Almgren Jr., one of the world’s leading geometric analysts and a pioneer in the geometric calculus of variations, began his graduate work at Brown in 1958. It was a very exciting place and time for geometric measure theory. Wendell Fleming had just arrived and begun his collaboration with Herbert Federer, leading to their seminal paper “Normal and Integral Currents” in 1960 [19...

In Memoriam: Louis J. Guillette, Jr.

Louis (Lou) J. Guillette, Jr., one of the most influential research scientists in the field of environmental health, died 6 August 2015 at the age of 60. Lou had been battling non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma for almost a decade, but his passing, caused by bacterial pneumonia, came as a shock to everyone who knew him. He was an extremely energetic man with a passion for the natural environ ment. He revel...

Pain, pain everywhere ... almost.

Chest Pain

اغلب بیماران می پندارند که درد قفسه (Chest Pain) نشانگر به سکته قلبی است. البته الزاماً این طور نیست، درد ممکن است منشا ریوی، معده - روده ای، روانی یا ماهیچه ای - استخوانی داشته باشد، وقتی دو مورد و یا بیشتر از آن با هم همراه شوند، علائم بروز می کند. همه اینها تشخیص درد سینه را مشکل می سازد. فقط با جداکردن علائم فردی و بیماریهای مربوط به آن می توانید یک تصویر تشخیصی معین و واضحی را ترسیم کنید.