Goblet cell carcinoid, also variably known as adenocarcinoid, mucinous carcinoid, and crypt cell carcinoma, is a rare neoplasm with distinct histological and clinical features. It has histological features of carcinoid as well as adenocarcinoma and was initially described in a large series by Subbuswamy et al in 1974. It is believed to arise from crypt base stem cells.  Generally it stains positive for synaptophysin, neuron-specific enolase, cytokeratin,chromogranin, and bioamines, which are characteristic of carcinoid lineage. However, it does not secrete the active hormones, i.e., serotonin and its by products, typically seen in carcinoid, at least not to the extent detectable in systemic circulation or enough to produce carcinoid symptoms. Goblet cell carcinoid produces mucin, a feature consistent with adenocarcinoma cell line.

A 59-year old woman was admitted to Virgen Macarena de Sevilla Hospital by the Casualty Unit after presenting digestive hemorrhage with melenas (melanhorragia), accompanied by syncopal episodes and precordial pain. After performing complementary clinical examinations, two diagnoses are reached: Severe Aortic Stenosis and Angiodysplasia of the colon. The treatment for these two pathologies was the surgery, which gave origin to a discussion about both processes' interrelationship and the order in which they should be performed.

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Ovarian tumor is one of the most common conditions that pose a challenge to a gynaecologist especially when it’s solid in nature. In general about 80% of all ovarian tumors are benign with favorable prognosis. The other 20% are malignant. Benign ovarian tumors are often diagnosed accidentally if they are not large but when they become large patients could present with abdominal discomfort, pains, constipation etc. due to compression on other pelvic and abdominal organs.

Exposure to anesthetic gases is a typical example of non biological pollution in hospitals. The presence of high concentrations of anesthetic gases or vapors in the operating and resuscitation rooms ' environment  air is very common, specially in all those cases in which measures to avoid this from happening are not taken. The health risks this exposure presents as a consequence are a cause of great controversy: because of being technically simple, measures to reduce risks’ environment concentrations are suggested to be taken.

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This is a study of interventions performed to patients with varicose veins at a local hospital, whose influence area is from 51,547 people, divided into 26,130 women and 25,417 men. However, the 68,45% of interventions performed with a diagnosis of varicose veins correspond to women. We divided the patients by ages and by used surgical techniques. We notice the lack of complications and the scarse number of reinterventions. The technique used in most cases was the saphenectomy through inner stripping.

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Varicose veins are external manifestations of alterations in the circulatory system, caused by the effect of the erect position; that is to say, the fact that a man walks and stays erect during the day and throughout his life.  This posture forces the circulatory system to go the last mile to send the blood back to the heart, defeating the gravitation; furthermore, the return or venous circulation is particularly difficult in the legs.

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Mesothelioma is a tumor that affects the serous (pleura and peritoneum) and its origin is always related to the exposition of asbestos, most commonly used in the building industry as an isolating material, but the exposition could have taken place about 20 and 50 years before the apparition of the Mesothelioma. This implies important legal consequences in patients all around the world. 
 

Gene expression arrays and immunohistochemical phenotypes studies classified breast cancer in three distinct subtypes: basal, HER2/neu and luminal that are associated with different clinical outcomes. In 141 patients with operable breast cancer included in several phase III adjuvant therapy trials, immunohistochemical staining was performed. A basal phenotype was defined by negative estrogen and progesterone receptor and positive cytokeratin 5/6 or EGFR immunoreactivity. HER2/neu phenotype as positive c-erb B2 by HercepTest™ and luminal phenotype by positive estrogen receptors, progesterone receptors and CK 7/8 and negative HER-2 were defined respectively. Survival curves were calculated by the Kaplan-Meier method. The differences between survivals were estimated using the log rank test.

Chronic Renal Failure (CRF) is a major public health problem. Early diagnosis and treatment are basic for its prognosis, and it will be fundamental for the future necessity of substitutive renal treatment. For this purpose, determining the etiology of chronic renal failure (CRF) may be helpful. This study was conducted in the Nephrology Department at the Central Military Hospital in Sana’a, Yemen from 2004 to 2007; to determine the etiology of chronic renal failure (CRF) in 334 patients (211 men and 123 women) on regular hemodialysis.

Progress in the ophtalmologic surgical technique has allowed phyicisians to perform them routinely and with very limited risks; a few years ago, these interventions would not have been even dreamt of.
 With very slight pains and only in a few minutes, problems such as short-sightedness, longsightedness or astigmatism can disappear permanently.

The method called Pilates was created by Joseph Pilates, born in Germany in 1880. Pilates` childhood was marked by his weak and unhealthy mood, which made him persistently compensate his handicaps with the study of the body, its strenghtening and training. As a result of his perseverance, Joseph Pilates became a great sportman, hired by Scotland Yard to be in charge of the training method for the personal defense of his agents.

Consumption of yoghurt reduces the population of harmful bacteria in the intestine provoking a reequilibrium of bacterial intestinal ecosystem of every individual, increasing the quantity of lactic beneficial bacteria and diminishing the number of bacteria of the group bacteroides and Prevotella, specially Bacteroides vulgatus, which is associated with carcinogenic processes and inflammatory intestinal diseases.