Gout, Hyperuricaemia and Crystal-Associated Disease Network (G-CAN) consensus statement regarding labels and definitions of disease states of gout.

Objective: There is a lack of standardisation in the terminology used to describe gout. The aim of this project was to develop a consensus statement describing the recommended nomenclature for disease states of gout.

Methods: A content analysis of gout-related articles from rheumatology and general internal medicine journals published over a 5-year period identified potential disease states and the labels commonly assigned to them.

The association between scheduling a gynecologic clinical visit and clinical breast examination in Rio de Janeiro.

Objective: To investigate factors associated with gynecology health professionals' failure to perform clinical breast examinations (CBEs) during clinical visits.

Methods: A cross-sectional, interview-based survey was conducted in 2010 among women aged at least 18 years who had undergone a cervical smear in 2007 at primary-care units in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Binomial regression was used to generate prevalence ratios and absolute differences between visits for routine examinations or gynecologic complaints.

[Treatment of complex nose deformities by external approach].

The authors present thirty patients with complex nasal deformities operated on by external approach. The incision was on the nasal columella. They used bone and cartilage grafts for the correction of the deformities.

[Treatment of losses of bone substance of the frontal region with outer table autogenic graft].

Ten patients with losses of frontal bone were operated with the use of bone grafts taken from the parietal area without craniotomy. In all patients the contour was restored without complications at the donor area. Results were evaluated clinically and radiologically one year later and no absorption was observed.