[Association between knowledge and practices on HIV infection in Peruvian women: secondary analysis of national survey].

Background: Reproductive-age women are a vulnerable population for HIV infection. The relationship between knowledge and practices is not well described in a context where levels of knowledge, attitudes, and practices about HIV infection are inadequate.

Aim: To determine the association between knowledge and practices about HIV infection in Peruvian reproductive-age women.

[Cancer of the esophagogastric junction in the Edgardo Rebagliati Martíns Hospital: experience of the esophagus and stomach surgery department].

Objectives: Establishing the clinical pathological characteristics of adenocarcinomata of the esophagogastric junction of an insured population in our environment.

Material And Methods: In this retrospective study, we studied sixty clinical histories of patients with a diagnosis of gastric adenocarcinomata, who had been surgically treated at the Edgardo Rebagliati Martins Hospital, 3C II Department of Surgery, EESALUD , Lima, Peru, from September 2002 to December 2004, and cases located at the esophagogastric junction (EGJ) were selected. Data were collected regarding: age, gender, presentation symptoms, anatomic location of the tumor, regional lymphatic metastasis (N), distance metastasis (M), TNM staging, excisability, complications, mortality and histological type.

[Giant esophageal fibrovascular polyp].

Fibrovascular polyps are extremely rare benign neoplasias of the esophagus, which usually originate in the lower cricoid area. They do not produce any discomfort in the patient for a long time, however it may make itself evident by the patient's regurgitation of the polyp, producing asphyxia or, more frequently, dysphagia. The case of a 58 year old male patient is presented herein, with a 9 month record of dysphagia, weight loss and intermittent melena.