Osteolipoma of the oral cavity: a case report.

Background: Osteolipoma located in the oral cavity and pharyngeal region is rare.

Case Report: The current case presents the clinical-ultrasonographic-radiographic-histopathological features of the diagnosis and management of osteolipoma of the mandibular buccal mucosa.

Discussion: A literature review of the osteolipoma of the oral cavity and pharyngeal region is also presented.

[Nurse's effective participation in planning: focus on costs].

This research searched to verify if the nurses of a private hospital in São Paulo-SP, Brazil, have costs management view and to observe how occur their participation in the planning levels, specifically in relation to the costs. Forty nurses were interviewed during their journey through a questionnaire about caring costs management and the levels of organizational planning. It was observed that 85% of the nurses interviewed affirmed that they don't participate on the caring costs management, and that 45% of the participants didn't know to explain the importance of this knowledge.

Submandibular osseous choristoma.

Purpose: Osseous choristoma is a rare, benign lesion of the oral cavity and is usually found in the tongue. It presents as a tumour-like mass of normal bony structure with mature cells in an abnormal position. The object of this paper is to report one case of osseous choristoma.

Peripheral osteoma of the mandible: case report and review of the literature.

Background: Osteoma is a benign often asymptomatic neoplasm, consisting of well-differentiated mature bone. This paper reports a case of peripheral osteoma located in the anterior mandibular region and provides a review of the literature about this lesion in the jaws.

Patient And Methods: A 43-year-old white woman presented with a swelling in the left mandible of 7 years duration.

Temporal bone involvement in cherubism: case report.

Cherubism is a rare benign hereditary fibro-osseous disease involving the mandible and maxilla. We report a case of cherubism in a 10-year-old girl for which the panoramic radiograph was insufficient for diagnosis of the disease. Clinical, histological, and radiological findings were discussed.

Cross-sectional study on blood pressure control in the department of nephrology of the Escola Paulista de Medicina - UNIFESP.

Objective: To assess hypertension control rates in a specialized university-affiliated medical department, the influence of sex, diabetes, and obesity on that control, and the strategies for the treatment of hypertension.

Methods: We carried out a cross-sectional study with 1,210 patients followed up for at least 6 months. Information was gathered from medical and nursing records and comprised the following data: sex, age, weight, height, abdominal and hip circumferences, blood pressure, and class and number of the antihypertensive drugs prescribed.