Randomized Controlled Trial of a Computerized Interactive Media-Based Problem Solving Treatment for Depression.

This study evaluated the efficacy of an interactive media-based, computer-delivered depression treatment program (imbPST) compared to a no-treatment control condition (NTC) in a parallel-group, randomized, controlled trial conducted in an outpatient psychiatric research clinic. 45 adult participants with major depressive disorder or dysthymia were randomized to receive either 6 weekly sessions of imbPST or no treatment (No Treatment Control; NTC). The primary outcome measure was the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II).

[Primary malignant lymphoma of the parotid gland. Report of a case].

Primary malignant lymphoma of the parotid gland is often correlated, in literature data, with inflammatory autoimmunological disease of the salivary gland. Finding of blasticlymphoid cells in myoepithelial scialoadenitic areas in a case of parotid disease is described by the Authors. Needle may be useful in detecting these high radio-chemosensitive neoplasms to reduce the occurrence of complications of total parotidectomy.

[Leiomyosarcoma of the stomach: contribution to case reports].

The authors illustrate two cases of gastric leiomyosarcoma (LMS) by themselves observed and they point out the anatomicopathologic and clinical appearances. Hemorrhagic sequels, presence of abdominal massa, canalization troubles often are the symptoms revealing a neoplasm, which therapy is a surgical exeresis composed by electric attitudes.

[Leiomyoblastoma of the small intestine].

A case of leiomyoblastoma in the small intestine is illustrated. The patient underwent first and iliac resection and then, 36 months later, a removal of multiple hepatic metastasis. The authors recall as the benign appearance of a leiomyoblastoma sometimes in only apparent, so that it's quite difficult predicting its evolution.