background: non-cardiac chest pain (nccp) presents as a frequent diagnostic challenge, with patients tending to use a disproportionate level of health care resources. gastroesophageal reflux disease (gerd) is the most frequent cause of nccp. thus the typical symptoms of reflux like heartburn and regurgitation, when present as predominant symptoms are quite specific for diagnosing gerd patients ...

Mal de Pott é o termo utilizado para definir a infecção da coluna vertebral pelo Mycobacterium tuberculosis. O envolvimento extrapulmonar se dá pela disseminação linfo-hematogênica dos bacilos. desenvolvimento do abcesso comprime medula causando lombalgia, paraparestesias, paraparesias, dificuldade em deambular. objetivo deste estudo foi descrever um caso tuberculose osteoarticular, abordando s...

Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. DOI 10.3109/17453674.2010.492766 A 57-year-old woman stumbled over her carpet, almost fell, and tried to sit down on the floor, when she heard a crack and sustained a ...