Panará: a volta dos índios gigantes

Tumor de células gigantes do esterno

We report the case of a 74-year-old female patient diagnosed with a giant cell tumor of the sternum. The clinical and radiological presentation was indicative of a primary tumor of the sternum. The patient underwent complementary tests and surgery. The pathological examination confirmed the diagnosis. Commonly observed in the long bones of the appendicular skeleton, this type of tumor is charac...

Treatment of Giant Intracranial Aneurysms: a Review Based on Experience from 286 Cases Tratamento dos aneurismas gigantes intracranianos: uma revisão baseada na experiência de 286 casos

Morley and Barr classify cerebral aneurysms as giant when their largest diameter is equal to or greater than 25 mm. The arbitrary limit of 2.5 cm distinguishes an aneurysm group with clinical and pathological characteristics, natural history, and treatment, which differ from those of small and medium aneurysms.1–4 The most common location is in the internal carotid artery (ICA), followed by the...

The Volta Review Alexander Graham

A Mechanism for Detecting and Identifying DoS attack in VANET

VANET (Vehicular Ad-hoc Network) which is a hy- brid network (combination of infrastructure and infra- structure-less networks) is an emergent technology with promising future as well as great challenges especially in security. By the other hand this type of network is very sensible to safety problem. This paper focuses on a new mechanism for DoS (denial of service) attacks on the physical and ...

FVIII-VWF dos-à-dos.

In this issue of Blood, back-to-back (dos-à-dos) papers by Chiu et al and Yee et al present complementary findings of structural investigations into the interaction between factor VIII (FVIII) and von Willebrand factor (VWF). The binding of FVIII to VWF contributes in a major way to the regulation of hemostasis.