Stress-Related Growth Scale-Short Form: A Portuguese validation for cancer patients.

Abstract Background/objective: Cancer can be extremely disruptive, triggering high levels of distress, and at the same time transformative, promoting perceptions of positive life changes and growth. This study aims to analyze the psychometric proprieties of the Stress-Related Growth Scale Short-Form (SRGS-SF) in cancer patients.

Method: 209 Cancer patients heterogeneous in disease stage and diagnosis completed: clinical and sociodemographic information, Distress Thermometer, Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, Visual-analogue Scale of Perceived Positive Life Changes, and Stress-Related Growth Scale-Short Form.

Are herpes virus associated to aggressive periodontitis? A review of literature.

Periodontal Disease includes a wide variety of infectious entities with various clinical manifestations in the oral cavity and responses to treatment. The determinants of clinical manifestations of periodontal disease include the type of infectious agent, the host immune response and environmental factors. Aggressive periodontitis (AP) is defined as a type of inflammation with specific clinical and laboratory features, which distinguish it from other types of periodontitis, with high incidence rates in a sub-group of individuals.

Solid pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas in a child: imaging findings with diffusion-weighted MR imaging.

Context: Solid pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas is a rare tumor more common in young girls and rare in males.

Case Report: We present a case of a solid pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas in a 13-year-old boy, with typical imaging features.

Conclusions: Our case report specifically illustrates the potential of diffusion-weighted imaging findings on solid pseudopapillary tumor in pediatric patients.