A 24-year-old girl injected approximately I ml of elemental mercury from a few broken thermometers to her right cubital fossa. It led to the formation of a tumoral lesion which was erythematous, lobulated, painful, with secretory sinuses in the injected area. Biopsy showed foreign body granulomas with metallic mercury that appeared as dark opaque globules. X-rays showed metallic densities i...

a 24-year-old girl injected approximately i ml of elemental mercury from a few broken thermometers to her right cubital fossa. it led to the formation of a tumoral lesion which was erythematous, lobulated, painful, with secretory sinuses in the injected area. biopsy showed foreign body granulomas with metallic mercury that appeared as dark opaque globules. x-rays showed metallic densities in th...

The superficial ulnar artery (SUA) is an ulnar artery of high origin that lies superficially in the forearm. Its reported frequency ranges from 0.17% to 2%. During anatomical dissection in our department we observed a unilateral case of SUA in a 75-year-old white male human cadaver. It originated from the right axillary artery at the level of the junction of the two median nerve roots and follo...

A Púrpura Trombocitopênica Idiopática (PTI) é uma condição autoimune caracterizada pela destruição plaquetária mediada por anticorpos, com maior prevalência na faixa etária pediátrica. O diagnóstico de exclusão, demonstrando plaquetopenia isolada e sinais clínicos, como equimoses, menorragia gengivorragia. presente artigo evidencia um caso PTI associada à infecção citomegalovírus em homem 64 an...

IL-17A cytokine is a most studied member of the IL-17 family and its increased production associated with autoimmune disease chronic inflammation including periodontitis. This study was aimed to evaluate serum levels in periodontitis patients or without diabetes. The carried out 168 subjects consisted 6 groups wherein group 1 28 Type diabetes periodontitis, 2 3 consists 4 5 Non-diabetic (contro...