BVS Paraguay

Enfermedad de Chagas congénito: Aspecto anatomopatológico de la placenta y el cordón umbilical en mujeres con serologia positiva para la enfermedad de Chagas

Kasamatsu, Elena; Rodriguez, Rubén; Morán, Mirian; Russomando, Graciela; Sakamoto, Makoto.

Anatomopathological studies were performed in 15 placentas of pregnant women who were seropositive for Chagas' disease. Nests of Trypanosoma cruzi amastigote s were found in the placenta and umbilical cord of three of them (20 percent). The parasitism was extensive in two of the cases, where the nests we...

Tumor rabdoide de riñón: Primer caso diagnosticado en Paraguay

Kasamatsu, Elena; Valdéz, Luis; Caballero, Humberto; Campos de Alvarenga, Soledad; Ros, Patricia; Prieto, Claudio; Cubilla, Antonio; Sakamoto, Makoto.

The rhabdoid tumor of kindey (RTK) is a neoplasia with well defined clinical and pathological characteristics. Itis is very important to distinguish it form the Wilms'tumor, because RTK is a very aggressive and has poor prognosis. The first case of a RTK diagnsed in Paraguay is presented.The diagnosis wa...

Virus del papiloma humano y cáncer de pene en Paraguay

Ascurra, Marta; Tsuda, Hitoshi; Kasamatsu, Elena; Cubilla, Antonio; Terada, Masaaki; Hirohashi, Setsuo.

To detect the precence of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA in penis cancer, 28 specimens from infiltrating epidermoid carcinoma were studied by Dot-blot analysis. All samples were from Paraguayan patients ranging in age from 30 to 80 years. Of these 14 (50 percent), contain DNA sequence homology. Nine samp...