Background Cardiac surgery is looking for new techniques, which are less traumatic with better cosmetic and functional results. The minimally invasive mitral valve in the first procedure is rapidly becoming standard access in several centers around the word. The objective of this report is to show that this new technique can lead to an improved quality of life after surgery and therefore a quic...

De acordo com a Sociedade Internacional de Cirurgia Plástica Estética, o Brasil apresenta maior taxa realização cirurgias plásticas no mundo. Seguindo padrão mundial, mamoplastia aumento é um dos procedimentos estéticos mais realizados Brasil, sendo considerado seguros e eficiência. A presente revisão tem objetivo analisar as técnicas os riscos da aumento. Para elaboração do trabalho foi utiliz...

BACKGROUND Metaplastic carcinoma of the breast is an extremely rare subtype of breast cancer with an incidence of <1% of all breast neoplasms. Metaplastic carcinoma with chondroid differentiation is the rarest among all histologic subtypes of breast cancer. We report a case of infiltrating ductal carcinoma with metaplastic features of chondroid differentiation. CASE PRESENTATION A 58-year-old...

To the Editors: Robust and reversible biomarkers are needed for the successful completion of phase II prevention trials, an area where Fabian and colleagues have made enormous contributions. One potential marker is cell proliferation, measured by Ki-67 labeling; Khan et al. present data obtained by random periareolar fine-needle aspiration in 147 women at high-risk, which they interpret as prov...

Abstract Background To date, studies on periareolar dermis release have recorded the areola sensitivity as a mean. Despite being clinically reported by patients, specific points of may present sensitivities not detected when researchers only consider mean values. Objectives The aim this study was to determine pressure at nipple-areola complex and compare these values with value measured in areo...

OBJECTIVE Our objective was to determine the identification and the percentage of false negatives in sentinel node biopsies in patients with early breast cancer at the Hospital La Línea (Spain), during the period between November 2007 and September 2010. METHODS We collected 50 patients with early breast cancer, without clinical and ultrasonographic involvement of axillary nodes, from Novembe...