Craniosynostosis occurs as a result of the absence or premature closure of one or multiple cranial sutures. Its treatment aims at correcting the esthetic defects as well as to control the intra-cranial pressure. The use ...

Introduction: Choledocholithiasis is the most frequent complication of cholelithiasis which is located on the second place of the acute abdominal pathology observed in the emergency services. Different series referred that ...

The aim of this paper is to present a study of measurement of the intensity of electric fields in a surgery room coming from radio frequency broadcasting sources located in Curitiba, Paraná. This is a result of an increase ...

Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a common clinical pathology covering a spectrum from mild to fatal, which produces an inflammation of the pancreas by enzymatic digestion auto variable degree of systemic involvement. It is a ...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a diagnostic test, however, children represent a big challenge due to their mobility and collaboration. A systematic review of the literature was conducted to studies about sedation in ...

The case of an 8-year-old child is described in this paper. He was brought to our consult because of a mass in his left hand present for 6 months with progressive growth. It was located on the third finger with deep extension ...

Introduction: DSA is the method of choice to follow patients with embolized intracranial aneurysms; it may be associated with disabling or fatal complications. The MRA has been proposed as an alternative because has less ...

Acute appendicitis is the main cause of abdominal pain in children, the first cause of death from abdominal sepsis and the most frequent surgical emergency in this population. Nowadays, there is no tool to identify those ...