[The child at the neonatal intensive care unit: the impact of the mother's first visit].

This study aimed to establish the impact the first visit to a child hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit have on the moher. This is a qualitative research conducted in a University Hospital from August to November, 2009. Semistructured interviews were conducted with ten mothers.

Peritumoral brain edema in intracranial meningiomas.

Occurrence of peritumoral brain edema (PBE) in meningiomas has been associated with several factors in recent years, although its pathophysiological mechanism has not yet been fully elucidated. The aim of this study was to analyze the correlation between the presence / degree of PBE and factors such as gender, age, size and histological subtype of tumor. We analyzed the MRI images of 74 patients operated on Hospital Beneficência Portuguesa de Porto Alegre for the presence / degree of PBE and data was statistically correlated with the parameters of the patient.