Functional performance assessment scale for children and adolescents with cancer: cross-cultural study.

Objectives: to describe the methodological process of cross-cultural adaptation of the PlayPerformance Scale for Children to Brazilian Portuguese.

Methods: methodological study of translation and cross-cultural adaptation in six stages: translation, synthesis of translations, back-translation, evaluation by a committee of judges, evaluation by expert nurses, and pretest. The agreement and representativeness of the items were assessed using the content validity index.

Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: reflection in the light of Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory.

Objective: To reflect on the environment of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in the light of the Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory.

Methods: A theoretical-reflexive essay of constructs originated from the final work of a discipline related to the Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory and the current legislation regarding the environment of the unit.

Results: The elements "lighting," "noise," "colors, and varieties of objects," "location of nursing units," and "odors" follow Florence Nightingale's assumptions while the elements "ventilation," "spacing between beds," "furniture" underwent adaptations to suit the current structure of the unit.

Randomized Clinical Trial of Balloon Occlusion versus Conventional Microcatheter Prostatic Artery Embolization for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia.

Purpose: To compare balloon occlusion prostatic artery embolization (bPAE) with conventional microcatheter PAE (cPAE).

Materials And Methods: In this single-center trial, between November 2017 and November 2018, 89 patients with symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia were randomly assigned to cPAE (n = 43) or bPAE (n = 46). All patients received embolization with 300-500 μm Embosphere microspheres and were evaluated before and 1 and 6 months after PAE.

Prostate Cancer: The Role of Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging has been increasingly used for detection, localization and staging of prostate cancer over the last years. It combines high-resolution T2 weighted-imaging and at least two functional techniques, which include dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging, diffusion-weighted imaging, and magnetic resonance imaging spectroscopy. Although the combined use of a pelvic phased-array and an endorectal coil is considered the state-of-the-art for magnetic resonance imaging evaluation of prostate cancer, endorectal coil is only absolute mandatory for magnetic resonance imaging spectroscopy at 1.