[A nursing team's approach to users of a mental health emergency room].

Unlabelled: This qualitative exploratory study was conducted in 2008, at a Municipal Emergency Care Center in Curitiba.

Objective: to learn about the conception of the nursing team about emergencies in mental health, and analyze how the nursing team approaches users with mental disorders in cases of emergency. Participants were 6 nurses and 7 nursing technicians working in emergency and hospitalization.

[Zosteriform eruption in a girl during resolution of varicella].

We show the case of a six-years-old little girl with a herpes zoster which appeared while a varicella was resolving. We are discussing the diagnosis difficulties of this process.

[Skin and ungual pigmentation caused by ftorafur].

We report the case of a sixty-seven-years-old male diagnosed of a gastric adenocarcinoma that presented brown pigmentation in the dorsal of his both hands and fingernails while being on treatment with ftorafur, an analogous of 5-fluorouracil. To our knowledge this side effect has not been previously reported for ftorafur.

[Orbital zygomycosis (mucormycosis) in a healthy child. Treatment with ketoconazole].

A case of orbital zygomycosis, probably mucormycosis, histologically demonstrated was observed in a healthy host. The etiologic agent could not be identified because of the unsuccessful cultures. No clinical antecedent allowed us to suppose that an immunological deficiency statement was present.