Vol. 19 No. 2 (2012): Abril/ Junho

Published: 2012-06-29

Editorial

Research is necessary!

Nuno Bernardino Vieira

59-60

Points of View

Mourning in hospitals among health professionals

Maria Teresa Alexandre

112-116

Original Articles

Clostridium difficile associated disease – dramatic increase in the incidence among hospitalized patients

Lurdes Correia, Rita Monteiro, Tiago Alfaro, Adélia Simão, Armando Carvalho, Nascimento Costa

61-68
Paraquat Intoxication – experience of an Internal Medicine ward for 18 years

Marco Simões, Patrícia Alves, Hélder Esperto, Catarina Canha, Elisa Meira, Érica Ferreira, Manuel Gomes, José Manuel Nascimento Costa

69-73

Case Reports

Kikuchi-Fujimoto’s disease in a black patient

Ana Vanessa Vicente, José Lomelino Araújo, Helena Oliveira, Manuel Costa Matos

74-78
Visceral leishmaniasis – from a case-report with retinal haemorrhages

Sónia Carvalho, Sandra Tavares, Manuel Cunha, J. Pereira Pinto, Fernando Guimarães

79-86
Toxic shock syndrome: an underdiagnosed illness – a case report

Cristiana Sousa, Carla Teixeira, Vasco Dias, Fernanda Almeida, Fátima Farinha

87-90
Systemic AL-k amyloidosis with lymph node, tracheobronchial, pulmonary and gastrointestinal involvement – a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge

Marco Fernandes, Luísa moreira

91-95

Images in Medicine

Living in the right hemisphere – a Large porencephalic cyst

Cristina Nunes, José Brizuela, Duarte Soares

96-96

Comunicações Breves

Diabetes and cancer: a short review for internists

Madhucar Talaulicar

105-110

História da Medicina

Disease outbreaks in Portugal in the first half of the twentieth century: historical and epidemiological approach. III - Influenza

J. A David de Morais

97-104