Forty-minute endovascular aortic occlusion increases survival in an experimental model of uncontrolled hemorrhagic shock caused by abdominal trauma.

Background: To evaluate the feasibility of aortic balloon catheter occlusion in intra-abdominal hemorrhage.

Methods: Effects of transfemoral diaphragmatic aortic balloon occlusion (ABO) have been evaluated in 25 pigs. The animals were submitted to incontrollable hemorrhage by a splenic trauma.

[Testicular carcinoma and sarcoid-like necrotizing granulomatosis].

A 35-year-old man with a stage I non-seminomatous germ-cell tumor of the right testis was treated with a simple orchidectomy. Sixty-seven months later, the patient who was on clinical follow-up, has presented five bilateral lung nodules on computed-tomography scan. Additional staging showed no other abnormalities.