ISSN-1807-5932
CLINICS
CONTENTS
Clinics 2012 67(5):409–541
CLINICAL SCIENCES
Acoustic analyses of diadochokinesis in fluent and stuttering children
Fabiola Staróbole Juste, Silmara Rondon, Fernanda Chiarion Sassi, Ana Paula Ritto, Claudia Aparecida Colalto,
Claudia Regina Furquim de Andrade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Current practices in the management of patients with ureteral calculi in the emergency room of a
university hospital
Oliver Rojas Claros, Carlos Hirokatsu Watanabe Silva, Horacio Consolmagno, Americo Toshiaki Sakai, Rodrigo Freddy,
Oscar Eduardo Hidetoshi Fugita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
Epidermal growth factor receptor and KRAS mutations in Brazilian lung cancer patients
Carlos E. Bacchi, Heloı́sa Ciol, Eduardo M. Queiroga, Lucimara C. Benine, Luciana H. Silva, Elida B. Ojopi. . . . . . 419
Thymopoiesis and regulatory T cells in healthy children and adolescents
Maria Izabel Arismendi, Esper Georges Kallás, Bianca Almeida Natali dos Santos, Magda Maria Sales Carneiro-Sampaio,
Cristiane Kayser. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
Shewanella infection of snake bites: a twelve-year retrospective study
Po-Yu Liu, Zhi-Yuan Shi, Chin-Fu Lin, Jin-An Huang, Jai-Wen Liu, Kun-Wei Chan, Kwong-Chung Tung . . . . . . . 431
A comparison of CA125, HE4, risk ovarian malignancy algorithm (ROMA), and risk malignancy
index (RMI) for the classification of ovarian masses
Cristina Anton, Filomena Marino Carvalho, Elci Isabel Oliveira, Gustavo Arantes Rosa Maciel, Edmund Chada Baracat,
Jesus Paula Carvalho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
Spinocerebellar ataxias – genotype-phenotype correlations in 104 Brazilian families
Hélio A. G. Teive, Renato P. Munhoz, Walter O. Arruda, Iscia Lopes-Cendes, Salmo Raskin, Lineu C. Werneck,
Tetsuo Ashizawa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
Longitudinal reference ranges for fetal ultrasound biometry in twin pregnancies
Adolfo Wenjaw Liao, Maria de Lourdes Brizot, Helenice Júlio Kang, Renata Almeida Assunção,
Marcelo Zugaib . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Metabolic assessment of elderly men with urolithiasis
Celso Heitor Freitas Junior, Eduardo Mazzucchi, Alexandre Danilovic, Artur Henrique Brito, Miguel Srougi . . . . . . 457
A comparative radiographic investigation of femoroacetabular impingement in young patients with
and without hip pain
Omar Ferreira Miguel, Henrique Berwanger de Amorim Cabrita, Marcelo Bordalo Rodrigues,
Alberto Tesconi Croci . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
The use of nasal dilator strips as a placebo for trials evaluating continuous positive airway pressure
Aline C.S. Amaro, Felipe H.G. Duarte, Raquel S. Jallad, Marcello D. Bronstein, Susan Redline,
Geraldo Lorenzi-Filho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
Obese elderly women exhibit low postural stability: a novel three-dimensional evaluation system
José Ailton O. Carneiro, Taiza E.G. Santos-Pontelli, Karla H.C. Vilaça, Karina Pfrimer, José F. Colafêmina,
Antonio Adilton O. Carneiro, Eduardo Ferriolli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
Foxp3 expression is associated with aggressiveness in differentiated thyroid carcinomas
Lucas Leite Cunha, Elaine Cristina Morari, Suely Nonogaki, Fernando Augusto Soares, José Vassallo, Laura
Sterian Ward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
BASIC RESEARCHES
Tension cost correlates with mechanical and biochemical parameters in different myocardial
contractility conditions
Cleci M. Moreira, Eduardo F. Meira, Luis Vestena, Ivanita Stefanon, Dalton V. Vassallo, Alessandra S. Padilha . . . 489
Acute and subchronic toxicological evaluation of Echinophora platyloba DC (Apiaceae) total extract
in Wistar rats
Sayid Mahdi Mirghazanfari, Leila Hosseinzadeh, Yalda Shokoohinia, Majid Aslany, Mohammad Kamali-Nejad. . . . 497
Hypoxia/reoxygenation-induced myocardial lesions in newborn piglets are related to interindividual
variability and not to oxygen concentration
Armando Faa, Nicoletta Iacovidou, Theodoros Xanthos, Annalisa Locci, Pietro Pampaloni, Filippia Aroni,
Apostolos Papalois, Gavino Faa, Vassilios Fanos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
Articles with short titles describing the results are cited more often
Carlos Eduardo Paiva, João Paulo da Silveira Nogueira Lima, Bianca Sakamoto Ribeiro Paiva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
READERS OPINION
Intraoperative diagnosis of cystobiliary communications of hydatid liver cysts
Cuneyt Kayaalp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
TECHNICAL NOTES
Use of hepatitis C-positive donors in transplantation
Edson Abdala, Luis Sérgio Fonseca de Azevedo, Silvia Vidal Campos, Marlova Luzzi Caramori, Sı́lvia Figueiredo Costa,
Tania Mara Varejão Strabelli, Lı́gia Camera Pierrotti, Glaucia Fernanda Varkulja, Gisele Madeira Duboc de Almeida,
Maria Aparecida Shikanai-Yasuda, Comissão de Infecção em Imunodeprimidos, Hospital das Clı́nicas da Faculdade de
Medicina de USP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
A new technique for the correction of hypoplastic left heart syndrome
Roberto Rocha-e-Silva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
CASE REPORTS
Early diagnosis of acute kidney injury in a critically ill patient using a combination of blood and
urinary physicochemical parameters
Alexandre Toledo Maciel, Marcelo Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
Epigastric heteropagus conjoined twins: two case studies and associated DNA analysis
Jun-tao Xie, Li Zhou, Zhi-lin Yang, Hong-yu Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
Modified Nissen fundoplication: laparoscopic antireflux surgery after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for
obesity
Nilton T Kawahara, Clarissa Alster, Fauze Maluf-Filho, Wilson Polara, Guilherme M. Campos, Luiz Francisco Poli-deFigueiredo (in memoriam) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
Surgical correction of hypoplastic left heart syndrome: a new approach
Roberto Rocha-e-Silva, Ricardo De Mola, Elizeu de Souza Santos, Dennys Marcel Sanches Martins, Vanessa
Rejane Pesciotto, Dalton Marcelo Hatori, João Paulo Martins Greco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535
ERRATA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541