Biomedical subjects

F Fuertes Guiró

Publications and source records attributed to F Fuertes Guiró.

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PubMed1996

[The phantom breast syndrome].

BACKGROUND: The phantom breast syndrome (PBS) is a complication of mastectomy which consists of a sensation of breast persistence after mastectomy. MATERIALS, PATIENTS AND METHODS: The incidence, clinical course and location of PBS in 97 operated women were studied for a 15-year period. All women were interviewed in postoperative follow-up controls after mastectomy. RESULTS: The incidence of PBS was 29 patients out of the 97 total. The syndrome was present for more than 48 months in eleven of these patients. In most cases the location of "phantom sensations" was the nipple (15 cases) and the entire breast in five patients. In only three patients was phantom breast pain (PBP) reported whereas some discomfort was reported by the other patients. CONCLUSIONS: The incidence of PBS in our series was similar to that reported by other authors, but PBP was less common. Neither postoperative sequelae nor the antitumoral specific therapy seemed to have influence on the emergence of PBS.

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PubMed1995

[The reappearance of gastrointestinal tuberculosis in general surgery].

Gastro-intestinal tuberculosis (TB) continues to give rise to diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Its increasing incidence and multiple and non-specificity of symptoms and signs require special attention to establish a prompt diagnosis and not to delay treatment. The authors describe on case of colonic TB presenting with multiple episodes of subocclusion suggesting a stenosing neoplasm of the caecum.

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PubMed1994

[Pancreatic endocrine F-cell tumor].

Two cases of pancreatic F-cell malignant tumors, producing only pancreatic polypeptide (PP) with clinical, biochemical and immunohistochemical features are described. No PP-associated endocrine symptoms were present. In both tumors, definitive diagnosis was immunohistochemical, and surgical treatment was carried out. Clinical evolution in the two patients was different: one of them died within the postoperative period with upper gastrointestinal bleeding by multiple duodenal ulcers, whereas the other--with lymph node metastasis at intraoperative diagnosis--is alive six years after treatment. F-cell tumors can be classified among the group of silent endocrine tumors of the pancreas. The reason for their discrepancy in the clinical behavior is unknown.

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Pneumomediastinum: physiopathological considerations and report of six cases treated in an emergency surgery division.

Pneumomediastinum indicates the presence of air in the mediastinal space. It may be classified in three categories, based on the main causes of air dissection into the mediastinal structures: spontaneous pneumomediastinum (pnm), the most frequently encountered, post traumatic pnm and pnm secondary to non-traumatic rupture of an abdominal hollow viscus. This paper reports the experience of a major regional emergency surgery division in the management of pnm during a five years period. Physiopathologic correlations are discussed together with diagnostic and therapeutic options.

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