Vol. 63 No. 6 (2008)

Editorial

In the december 2008 issue of Clinics

Mauricio Rocha-e-Silva

717-718
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Clinical Sciences

The impact of obesity on pulmonary function in adult women

Dirceu Costa, Marcela Cangussu Barbalho, Gustavo Peixoto Soares Miguel, Eli Maria Pazzianotto Forti, João Luiz Moreira Coutinho Azevedo

719-724
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The relationship between heart rate reserve and oxygen uptake reserve in heart failure patients on optimized and non-optimized beta-blocker therapy

Vitor Oliveira Carvalho, Guilherme Veiga Guimarães, Edimar Alcides Bocchi

725-730
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Laparoscopic partial cystectomy for urachal and bladder cancer

Jose R. Colombo Jr., Mihir Desai, David Canes, Rodrigo Frota, Georges-Pascal Haber, Alireza Moinzadeh, Ingolf Tuerk, Mahesh R. Desai, Inderbir S. Gill

731-734
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Effects of somatosensory stimulation on the excitability of the unaffected hemisphere in chronic stroke patients

Adriana B. Conforto, Renata Laurenti dos Santos, Suzete Nascimento Farias, Suely Kazue Nagahashi Marie, Nadia Mangini, Leonardo G. Cohen

735-740
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The postgraduate hospital educational environment measure (PHEEM) questionnaire identifies quality of instruction as a key factor predicting academic achievement

Joaquim Edson Vieira

741-746
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Primary cicatricial alopecias: a review of histopathologic findings in 38 patients from a clinical University Hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Emanuella Rosyane Duarte Moure, Ricardo Romiti, Maria Cecília da Matta Rivitti Machado, Neusa Yuriko Sakai Valente

747-752
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Acute aerobic exercise reduces 24-h ambulatory blood pressure levels in long-term-treated hypertensive patients

Emmanuel G. Ciolac, Guilherme V. Guimarães, Veridiana M. D´Ávila, Luiz A. Bortolotto, Egídio L. Doria, Edimar A. Bocchi

753-758
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Pretreatment tumor volume estimation based on total serum psa in patients with localized prostate cancer

Raphael Barroso Kato, Victor Srougi, Fernanda Aburesi Salvadori, Pedro Paulo Marino Rodrigues Ayres, Katia Moreira Leite, Miguel Srougi

759-762
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Effect of global posture reeducation and of static stretching on pain, range of motion, and quality of life in women with chronic neck pain: a randomized clinical trial

Ana Cláudia Violino Cunha, Thomaz Nogueira Burke, Fábio Jorge Renovato França, Amélia Pasqual Marques

763-770
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Sustained benefit lasting one year from T4 instead of T3-T4 sympathectomy for isolated axillary hyperhidrosis

Marco Antonio S. Munia, Nelson Wolosker, Paulo Kaufmann, José Ribas Milanes de Campos, Pedro Puech-Leão

771-774
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Prevalence of sexual dysfunction and its associated factors in women aged 40-65 years with 11 years or more of formal education: a population-based household survey

Ana L. R. Valadares, Aarão M. Pinto-Neto, Maria J. Osis, Maria H. Sousa, Lúcia Costa-Paiva, Délio M. Conde

775-782
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Quality of life and its association with cardiovascular risk factors in a community health care program population

Luiz Mário Baptista Martinelli, Bruno Moreira Mizutani, Anibal Mutti, Maria Paula Barbieri D'elia, Rodrigo Soler Coltro, Beatriz Bojikian Matsubara

783-788
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Open thoracotomy and decortication for chronic empyema

Rafael Andrade-Alegre, Juan D. Garisto, Salomón Zebede

789-793
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A comparison of hand-assisted and pure laparoscopic techniques in live donor nephrectomy

Anibal Wood Branco, William Kondo, Alcides José Branco Filho, Marco Aurélio de George, Marlon Rangel, Luciano Carneiro Stunitz

795-800
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Basic Research

In vitro and in vivo evaluation of lyophilized bovine bone biocompatibility

Carlos Roberto Galia, Carlos Alberto Macedo, Ricardo Rosito, Tielle Muller de Mello, Lourdes Maria Araújo Quaresma Camargo, Luis Fernando Moreira

801-806
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Ginger extract (Zingiber officinale) has anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory effects on ethionine-induced hepatoma rats

Shafina Hanim Mohd Habib, Suzana Makpol, Noor Aini Abdul Hamid, Srijit Das, Wan Zurinah Wan Ngah, Yasmin Anum Mohd Yusof

807-813
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Petroleum ether extract of Cissus quadrangularis (LINN) stimulates the growth of fetal bone during intra uterine developmental period: a morphometric analysis

Bhagath Kumar Potu, Muddanna S Rao, N Gopalan Kutty, Kumar MR Bhat, Mallikarjuna Rao Chamallamudi, Soubhagya Ranjan Nayak

815-820
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A comparison of vitamin A and leucovorin for the prevention of methotrexate-induced micronuclei production in rat bone marrow

Sampath Madhyastha, Latha V Prabhu, V Saralaya, Rajalakshmi Rai

821-826
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Review

Halfway houses for alcohol dependents: from theoretical bases to implications for the organization of facilities

Alessandra Diehl Reis, Ronaldo Laranjeira

827-832
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Operating room use of hypertonic solutions: a clinical review

Gustavo Azoubel, Bartolomeu Nascimento, Mauricio Ferri, Sandro Rizoli

833-840
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Letter to the Editors

Pleomorphic undifferentiated sarcoma of the penis

Omar Reda El Hayek, Roberto Ibrahim, Gustavo Caserta Lemos

841-842
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An unusual presentation of mesenteric panniculitis

Teresa Cristina A. Ferrari, Carolina M. Couto, Tatiane S. Vilaça, Marcelo A. P. Xavier, Luciana C. Faria

843-844
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Unusual location of a cervical paraganglioma between the thyroid gland and the common carotid artery: case report

Fábio Roberto Pinto, Fábio de Aquino Capelli, Sueli Aparecida Maeda, Emílio Marcelo Pereira, Marcela Benetti Scarpa, Lenine Garcia Brandão

845-848
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Vol. 63 No. 6 (2008)

Editorial

Clinical Sciences

Basic Research

Review

Letter to the Editors

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