[Risk factors for postoperative hypothermia in the post-anesthetic care unit: a prospective prognostic pilot study].

Background: Hypothermia occurs in up to 20% of perioperative patients. Systematic postoperative temperature monitoring is not a standard of care in Brazil and there are few publications about temperature recovery in the postoperative care unit.

Design And Setting: Multicenter, observational, cross-sectional study, at Hospital de Base do Distrito Federal and Hospital Materno Infantil de Brasília.

Impact of reduced levels of APE1 transcripts on the survival of patients with urothelial carcinoma of the bladder.

Molecular evidence indicates that alterations in genes involved in the maintenance of genome stability may be related to susceptibility to bladder carcinoma. Our goal was to evaluate the prognostic role of base excision repair (BER) genes in a cohort of patients diagnosed with primary urothelial carcinoma of the bladder (UCB). The levels of all APE1, XRCC1 and POLB transcripts were detected by quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) technique in tumor samples from 52 patients undergoing transurethral resection (TUR) for primary UCB at the Department of Urology, Brazilian National Cancer Institute, Rio de Janeiro.

Sebaceous carcinoma of the penis.

Sebaceous carcinoma is a very aggressive malignant tumor, derived from the adnexal epithelium of sebaceous glands. Extraocular sebaceous carcinoma is a very uncommon neoplasm usually localized on the head and neck. To our knowledge, there are only 2 previously reported cases of sebaceous carcinoma on the penis.

Surgical treatment of invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the penis: Brazilian National Cancer Institute long-term experience.

Background And Objectives: We reviewed our long-term experience with surgical treatment of patients with penile carcinoma.

Methods: From 1960 to 2006, 688 patients with penile carcinoma underwent surgical treatment at our Institute. Several forms of surgical treatment were compared and follow-up data analyzed.

[Treatment of patients with recurrent superficial bladder cancer with lyophilized Moureau-Rio de Janeiro BCG strain. Brazillian National Cancer Institute experience].

Purpose: We present our experience with lyophilized Moureau-Rio de Janeiro BCG strain for treatment of patients with recurrent superficial bladder cancer.

Patients And Methods: From October 1986 to January 2001, 114 patients were treated by transurethral resection followed by intravesical instillation of BCG at our institution. Follow-up ranged from 10 to 144 months (mean 50.

[Merkel cell carcinoma of penis].

We describe the second case in literature of Merkel cell carcinoma of penis, a rare, very aggressive neuroendocrine tumor. Treatment is debatable in view of the fact that this kind of tumor has unpredictable biological behaviour, early regional lymph node involvement, early distant metastases and a high recurrence rate. Considering these facts, we used pre-operative lymphoscintigraphy, intra-operative lymph node mapping and sentinel node biopsy before performing a bilateral inguinal lymphadenectomy.