ISSN 1677-7301


March 2007 - Volume 06 - Number 01

TABLE OF CONTENTS

editorials

How to practice evidence-based medicine
Regina Paolucci El Dib

Traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta due to closed-chest trauma
Ricardo Aun

original articles

Evaluation of a clinical prediction model by Wells et al. in the diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis of the lower limbs
Veronica Barreto Fortes, Hamilton Almeida Rollo, Archangelo Tarciso Fortes Jr., Marcone de Lima Sobreira, Fernanda Cardoso Santos, Mariângela Giannini, Francisco Humberto de Abreu Maffei

Alternative therapy for microvarices and telangiectasias with use of needle
Raimundo Rosendo de Oliveira, Eraldo Barbosa Calado, Diógenes Luis da Mota, André Filipe Vieira Pereira da Silva, Jennecy Sales Cavalcanti

Assessment of calf muscle pump in patients with primary varicose veins of the lower limbs by air plethysmography
André de Araújo Sacchi, Aldemar Araújo Castro, Guilherme Benjamin Brandão Pitta, Fausto Miranda Junior

Valves of the common brachial vein: anatomical study
Carlos Adriano Silva dos Santos, Luiz Francisco Poli de Figueiredo, Luiz Carlos Buarque de Gusmão, Guilherme Benjamin Brandão Pitta, Fausto Miranda Jr.

The use of streptokinase in the treatment of acute arterial occlusion after catheterization of the femoral artery in children weighing less than 10 kg
Nilo César Barbosa Mandelli, Cláudio Nhuch, Paulo Roberto Fontes, Haroldo Diez Paiva, Raul Rossi, Mario Frederico Chagas Pereira, Silvio Perini

Ischemia and reperfusion of the soleus muscle of rats with pentoxifylline
José Lacerda Brasileiro, Djalma José Fagundes, Luciana Odashiro Nakao Miiji, Celina Tizuko Fujiama Oshima, Roberto Teruya, Guido Marks, Celso Massaschi Inouye, Maldonat Azambuja Santos

review article

Estado atual do diagnóstico e tratamento das lesões traumáticas da aorta torácica
Vishal Bansal, Jeanne Lee, Raul Coimbra

case reports

Lateral thoracic artery pseudoaneurysm due to blunt chest trauma
Artur José Rocha-Lima, Marcus Vinícius Marques, Cláudio Gabriele

Endovascular treatment of a ruptured iliac aneurysm: case report
Adinaldo Adhemar Menezes da Silva, Luis Fernando Reis, Daniel Gustavo Miquelin, Priscilla Yukiko Sano, Vlanna Sales Pereira, José Maria Pereirade Godoy

Endovascular treatment in a patient with aortic coarctation: case report
Eugênio Carlos Almeida Tinoco, Antônio Carlos Botelho; Bruno Baião Luquini, Rafael Lima Campanha, Marcelo Nascimento, Luciana Abreu Horta, Daniela Mendonça Sueth, Felipe Montes Pena, Lincoln Rangel de Medeiros Teixeira

Branched endovascular stent graft for thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair
André Simi, Renato Ishii, Marcelo Ferreira, Anelise Santos, Antonio Carlos Simi

Vascular complication of osteochondroma: case report
Fábio André Tornquist, Carlos César Leopardo, Tibiriçá Cecim Segala, Ali Juma Abdalla Abel Hamid

Monckeberg’s arteriosclerosis as a cause of lower limb critical ischemia: case report
Eduardo Lichtenfels, Airton D. Frankini, Aline S. Becker, Vinícius C. Pires

dissertation abstract

Anatomic study of the soleus veins in human beings
Carlos Miguel Gomes Sequeira

book review

Review of the book entitled Guia prático de ultra-sonografia vascular
Ricardo C. R. Moreira

letter to the editor

The imminent paradigm shift toward the relationship between pharmaceutical industry and medicine
Ricardo Costa-Val


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