Os fenômenos de extravasamento muco resultam um trauma mecânico ao ducto excretor uma glândula salivar, levando acúmulo mucina no tecido conjuntivo subjacente. São classificados em mucocele e rânula, a depender sua localização. O tratamento é cirúrgico, variando da marsupialização, remoção definitiva lesão, além outras técnicas descompressão. Relatar caso clínico rânula bilateral tratada atravé...

I was called on to see a newly-born female child on 29th June, 1942, who did not pass urine since her birth on the 24th. On examination the vulva was found much congested; thick muco-purulent discharge could be noticed escaping from the external urethral orifice; and the parts round about the external urethral orifice appeared to be sloughing. Enquiry did not show the mother as suffering from a...

Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a rare, autosomal recessive disease with abnormalities in the structure of cilia, causing impairment of muco-ciliary clearance with respiratory tract infections, heterotaxia and abnormal sperm motility with male infertility. Here, with a comprehensive literature review, we report a couple with an infertility history of 9 years and three unsuccessful IVF treat...

The DiseaseLeishmaniasis is vector-borne disease caused by blood and tissue dwelling protozoan parasite species belonging to the genus Leishmania. It is basically a disease of animals that gets into the human population when man, flies and the animal reservoirs coexist in the same environment. In man, infections with Leishmania parasites results in a broad range of clinical manifestations invol...

in the third stage. Mrs F., set. 36, iii.-para, was admitted on the 7th April 1889 at 11 p.m. On admission she was in a very bad state, too ill, indeed, to give any reliable account of her condition. When called to see her I found patient sitting up in bed struggling for breath, any attempt to lie down being followed by a feeling of suffocation. The face was cyanotic and of a grey hue, lips liv...