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D A Petti

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Endometrial damage in acute salpingitis.

Histologic and bacteriologic analyses of endometrium were performed before and on day 15 after minocycline treatment of 20 patients with acute salpingitis. Endometritis was diagnosed in 15 patients before and in nine after treatment. Neisseria gonorrhoeae was recovered from the cervix and endometrium of seven patients but was not isolated after treatment. Chlamydia trachomatis was recovered from the cervix of eight, and from the endometrium of three patients, two of whom had negative cervical cultures. After treatment C. trachomatis was recovered from the cervix of three patients, although two of them had taken aluminum hydroxide for gastric symptomatology during minocycline treatment. Culture of an endometrial specimen revealed no growth of C. trachomatis. The histologic study revealed plasma cell infiltrates in specimens from patients who had cultures positive for C. trachomatis. The results showed that although endometritis is an important manifestation of acute salpingitis, there is no correlation between severity of endometritis and degree of tubal damage.

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[Dermatologic drill biopsy (punch): diagnostic procedures in advanced carcinoma of the breast].

Thirty-seven patients with breast tumors in stage III and IV were selected, and a new method to remove fragments of tissue for anatomopathologic study was used. The "punch" of Keyes was introduced towards the tumor, under strong pressure, with clockwise and counter-clockwise rotational movements. In thirty-eight biopsies, the anatomopathologic study allowed the authors to make a perfect evaluation of the structure, and the diagnosis made was of infiltrating carcinoma of the breast. This method proved to be a quick, safe and simple procedure, free of complications, and it allows for anatomopathologic diagnosis in 100% of the cases.

Adult↗
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[Breast cancer in the pregnancy-puerperal cycle].

From 1978 to 1988, 611 cases of breast cancer were seen by the Mastology Department of the Beneficência Portuguesa Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. Thirteen (2.12%) cases were associated to pregnancy, and nine (2.4%) became pregnant after treatment. The patients were submitted to surgery and the authors waited till the end of pregnancy to perform the Rt and/or Qt. Two cases could not be submitted to any kind of treatment. Whenever tests indicated fetal maturity, the option was to perform a caesarean section, and oophorectomy was performed in the most advanced cases. Among patients who became pregnant after treatment, initial cases were predominant and their pregnancies went to term with no problem. The authors compare their results to data found in literature and draw attention to anticonception in mastectomized patients.

Adolescent↗