Intracranial Castleman's Disease Mimicking Dural-based Pathologies: A Case Report.

Background: Castleman disease (CD) is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder, with intracranial involvement being exceedingly rare. Unicentric Castleman disease (UCD) is typically benign and localized, but its presentation can mimic other intracranial pathologies, complicating diagnosis.

Case Description: We reported a 52-year-old woman who presented with progressive headaches and language disturbances.

Bone anatomic variations of the parasellar region and its technical implications in para clinoid and posterior communicating segment aneurysms microsurgical clipping - Technical note.

Background: Microsurgical treatment of paraclinoid aneurysms is a complex task that generally requires anterior clinoid process (ACP) removal to obtain adequate surgical exposure. This procedure poses a considerable technical difficulty due to the association of the ACP to critical neurovascular structures. Furthermore, anatomical variations in the parasellar region, such as the caroticoclinoid foramen (CCF) or an interclinoid bridge (ICB), may impose additional challenges and increase surgical complications.

Health Literacy Concepts, Themes, and Research Trends Globally and in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Bibliometric Review.

(1) Background: Health literacy (HL) debates have increased significantly in the last two decades. HL concepts/themes and models have achieved substantial development in the US and Europe. Although there have been some efforts to develop HL in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), these seem to be few and scattered.

Oral Health Literacy-Measurement Instruments and their Psychometric Properties: A Systematic Review.

Objective: This article aims to provide an evaluation of the psychometric properties of the instruments of oral health literacy in adults.

Methods: An electronic search for instrument studies was performed in the PubMed, PubMed Central, ScienceDirect, Scopus, EMBASE, and PsycINFO databases to find articles published up to June 2021. The risk of bias of the included studies was assessed using the COSMIN (COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments) Risk of Bias checklist for systematic review.

Structural and Electronic Properties of Bulk ZnX (X = O, S, Se, Te), ZnF, and ZnO/ZnF: A DFT Investigation within PBE, PBE + , and Hybrid HSE Functionals.

Here, we have studied the crystalline structure of bulk ZnX (X = O, S, Se, Te) and ZnF systems as a first step to understand the structures like ZnX and Zn-based systems like ZnO/ZnF interfaces, which are of utmost importance for possible technological applications. In addition, an adequate methodological description based on density functional theory (DFT) calculations is necessary. It is well known that plain DFT calculations based on local or semilocal exchange-correlation functionals fail to describe the correct band gap energy for these systems, whereas nonlocal approaches, such as hybrid-based functionals, can compensate the underestimation of band gap.