Falls of elderly people living in rural areas: prevalence and associated factors.

Objective: to identify the prevalence and factors associated with falls in the elderly population living in rural areas.

Method: this is a cross-sectional study, carried out in 2014, with 820 older adults recorded in the Family Health Strategy (Estratégia Saúde da Família). The association between the reporting of falls in 12 months and their associated factors was verified by the Chi-square and Fischer's exact tests and by multivariate logistic regression analysis.

Factors associated with frailty syndrome in the rural elderly.

Objective: determine the prevalence and factors associated with frailty syndrome (FS) in the elderly in the rural population of Pelotas.

Method: Quantitative, analytical, transversal study conducted with 820 elderly subjects registered in the Family Health Strategy (FHS) in the rural area in the municipality of Pelotas, from July to October 2014.

Results: among those evaluated, 43.

Functional capacity to perform activities of daily living among older persons living in rural areas registered in the Family Health Strategy.

This article describes the socioeconomic profile and functional capacity of older persons living in rural areas in the Municipality of Pelotas-RS, Brazil based on the following sociodemographic characteristics: age, sex, income, schooling and chronic diseases. A cross-sectional analytical study was conducted between July and October 2014 using a sample of 820 older persons. We used the Pearson chi square test of homogeneity for nominal variables and the test for trend for ordinal variables.

Indoleamine 2,3 dioxygenase as a prognostic and follow-up marker in melanoma. A comparative study with LDH and S100B.

Background: To date, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and S100B remain the most useful biomarkers for follow-up of melanoma patients. In recent years, indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), an immunosuppressive enzyme, has been proposed as a new potential tumour biomarker for melanoma. However, further studies are needed to confirm the usefulness of IDO expression as an independent prognostic factor.

Adenoid cystic carcinoma metastatic to the kidney: a case report.

Background: Fine needle aspiration (FNA) of kidney lesions under image control is widespread and well documented. This technique is essential in preoperative differential diagnosis of solid and cystic benign or malignant lesions of the kidney. Kidney metastases are not frequent and are usually described in terminally ill patients, by which time the illness is extended, or in autopsy findings.

[Primary CNS Lymphoma: bibliographical review and experience at the Hospital of Navarre in the last 5 years (2000-2004)].

Primary cerebral lymphoma (Primary CNS Lymphoma, PCNSL) is an aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma that originates in the central nervous system without evidence of lymphoma in any other localization at the time of diagnosis. Primary cerebral lymphomas are less well-known and are characterized than their homologues the systemic lymphomas, as they are an entity whose frequency was scarce until a few decades ago. However, the great rise in incidence that this pathology has undergone over the last three decades, and which is still unexplained, makes more studies necessary to better understand the etiopathology of this entity.

[Comparative results of ganglion dissection in cancer of the rectum with and without prior treatment of the adipose tissue].

Background: The aim of this study is to describe the result obtained through two techniques of isolation of lymphatic lymph nodes in surgical pieces of anterior resection due to adenocarcinoma of the rectum.

Material And Methods: We carried out a search in a series of 30 consecutive cases of patients operated on for adenocarcinoma of the rectum for lymph nodes first in a manual conventional way and second after 24 hours in a degreasing solution at room temperature.

Results: In the first search 335 lymph nodes were lymph nodes isolated, with an average that oscillated between 6.