CLINICS

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CLINICS
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Clinics 2011 66(11):1849–1999
CLINICAL SCIENCES
PROP1 and CTNNB1 expression in adamantinomatous craniopharyngiomas with or without bcatenin mutations
Carolina M.G. Cani, Hamilton Matushita, Luciani R. S. Carvalho, Ibere C. Soares, Luciana P. Brito, Madson Q. Almeida,
Berenice B. Mendonça . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849
Autologous stem cell transplantation improves quality of life in economically challenged, Brazilian
multiple myeloma patients
Leina Y. Etto, Vânia Maris Morelli, Vanderleia C. Silva, Vania T. M. Hungria, Rozana M. Ciconelli, Manuella S. S.
Almeida, José Salvador R. de Oliveira, José Carlos Barros, Brian G. Durie, Gisele W. B. Colleoni . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1855
Association between participation in community groups and being more physically active among
older adults from Florianópolis, Brazil
Giovana Zarpellon Mazo, Tânia Bertoldo Benedetti, Cinara Sacomori . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1861
Gender differences, polypharmacy, and potential pharmacological interactions in the elderly
Carina Duarte Venturini, Paula Engroff, Luı́sa Scheer Ely, Luı́sa Faria de Araújo Zago, Guilherme Schroeter, Irenio Gomes,
Geraldo Attilio De Carli, Fernanda Bueno Morrone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1867
Non-small cell lung cancer in never smokers: a clinical entity to be identified
Ilka Lopes Santoro, Roberta Pulcheri Ramos, Juliana Franceschini, Sergio Jamnik, Ana Luisa Godoy Fernandes . . . . 1873
M2-Polarized tumor-associated macrophages are associated with poor prognoses resulting from
accelerated lymphangiogenesis in lung adenocarcinoma
Bicheng Zhang, Guoqing Yao, Yafei Zhang, Juan Gao, Bo Yang, Zhiguo Rao, Jianfei Gao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1879
A negative expiratory pressure test during wakefulness for evaluating the risk of obstructive sleep
apnea in patients referred for sleep studies
Salvatore Romano, Adriana Salvaggio, Anna Lo Bue, Oreste Marrone, Giuseppe Insalaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1887
The characteristics of stress cardiomyopathy in an ethnically heterogeneous population
Francisco O. Nascimento, Orlando Santana, Margarita Perez-Caminero, Alexandre M. Benjo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1895
Preoperative nodal staging of non-small cell lung cancer using
99m
Tc-sestamibi spect/ct imaging
Juliana Muniz Miziara, Euclides Timóteo da Rocha, José Elias Abrão Miziara, Gustavo Fabene Garcia, Maria Izilda
Previato Simões, Marco Antônio Lopes, Lı́gia Maria Kerr, Carlos Alberto Buchpiguel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1901
Assessment of symptoms of urinary incontinence in women with polycystic ovary syndrome
Thais Montezuma, Flávia lgnácio Antônio, Ana Carolina Japur de Sá Rosa e Silva, Marcos Felipe Silva de Sá,
Rui Alberto Ferriani, Cristine Homsi Jorge Ferreira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1911
The validity and reliability of the Portuguese versions of three tools used to diagnose delirium in
critically ill patients
Dimitri Gusmao-Flores, Jorge Ibrain Figueira Salluh, Felipe Dal-Pizzol, Cristiane Ritter, Cristiane Damiani Tomasi,
Marco Antônio Sales Dantas de Lima, Lauro Reis Santana, Rita Márcia Pacheco Lins, Patrı́cia Pimenta Lemos,
Gisele Vasconcelos Serpa, Jenisson Oliveira, Ricardo Ávila Chalhub, Melissa Tassano Pitrowsky, Acioly L.T. Lacerda,
Karestan C. Koenen, Lucas C. Quarantini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1917
Do Omega-3 fatty acids prevent atrial fibrillation after open heart surgery? A meta-analysis of
randomized controlled trials
Luciana Armaganijan, Renato D. Lopes, Jeff S. Healey, Jonathan P. Piccini, Girish M. Nair, Carlos A. Morillo . . . . . 1923
The ADA*2 allele of the adenosine deaminase gene (20q13.11) and recurrent spontaneous abortions:
an age-dependent association
Daniela Prudente Teixeira Nunes, Lı́gia Cosentino Junqueira Franco Spegiorin, Cinara Cássia Brandão de Mattos,
Antonio Helio Oliani, Denise Cristina Mós Vaz-Oliani, Luiz Carlos de Mattos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1929
Revisting stapled and handsewn loop ileostomy closures: a large retrospective series
Emre Balik, Tunc Eren, Dursun Bugra, Yilmaz Buyukuncu, Ali Akyuz, Sumer Yamaner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1935
Development and analysis of a low-cost screening tool to identify and classify hearing loss in children:
a proposal for developing countries
Alessandra Giannella Samelli, Camila Maia Rabelo, Ana Paula Chaparin Vespasiano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1943
Mechanical evaluation of the resistance and elastance of post-burn scars after topical treatment with
tretinoin
Maria Fernanda Dematte, Rolf Gemperli, Alessandra Grassi Salles, Marisa Dolhnikoff, Tatiana Lanças, Paulo Hilário
Nascimento Saldiva, Marcus Castro Ferreira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1949
Restless legs syndrome in subjects with a knee prosthesis: evidence that symptoms are generated in the
periphery
José Carlos Pereira Jr, João Luiz Pereira da Silva Neto, Márcia Pradella-Hallinan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1955
BASIC RESEARCHES
Vimentin and laminin are altered on cheek pouch microvessels of streptozotocin-induced diabetic
hamsters
Jemima Fuentes R. Silva, Fatima Z. G. A. Cyrino, Marisa M. D. Breitenbach, Eliete Bouskela, Jorge José
Carvalho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1961
Impact of Plasma-Lyte pH 7.4 on acid-base status and hemodynamics in a model of controlled
hemorrhagic shock
Danilo Teixeira Noritomi, Adriano José Pereira, Diogo Diniz Gomes Bugano, Paulo Sergio Rehder, Eliézer Silva . . . . 1969
REVIEW
An overview of recently published medical papers in Brazilian scientific journals
Mauricio Rocha e Silva, Ariane Gomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1975
CASE REPORTS
Immunoglobulin G4-related systemic sclerosing disease in a patient with sclerosing cholangitis,
inflammatory pseudotumors of the lung and multiple radiological patterns: a case report
Olı́via Meira Dias, Alexandre de Melo Kawassaki, Hironori Haga, Alberto Cukier, Carlos Roberto Ribeiro
Carvalho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1983
The best approach for diagnosing primary sclerosing cholangitis
Wellington Andraus, Luciana Haddad, Lucas Souto Nacif, Felipe D. Silva, Roberto Blasbalg, Luiz Augusto
Carneiro D’Albuquerque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1987
Primary Sjögren’s syndrome in children: Is a family approach indicated?
Barbara S. Longhi, Simone Appenzeller, Maraisa Centeville, Reinaldo J. Gusmão, Roberto Marini . . . . . . . . . . . . 1991
Unusual presentation of multiple aneurysms of the ascending aorta
Sergio Francisco Santos Jr, Marcelo Luiz Peixoto Sobral, Anderson da Silva Terrazas, Gilmar Geraldo Santos,
Noedir A. G Stolf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1995
ERRATA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1999