Hospital Universitário Pedro Ernesto

Discontinuous Peripheral Punctate Echogenic Foci in Thyroid Nodules: A New Sonographic Pattern Suggestive of Papillary Carcinoma

Background: Ultrasound risk stratification systems for thyroid nodules worldwide describe different types of echogenic foci, including punctate echogenic foci (microcalcifications), coarse internal calcifications, and peripheral (rim) calcifications (complete or incomplete), with...

Congenital/primary clival meningocele: A systematic review and surgical approach based on a new proposed classification

Skull base meningoceles are extremely rare, most commonly resulting from congenital defects in sphenoid bone fusion. Inadequate embryonic fusion between the posterior sphenoid and the occipital bones may result in a transclival meningocele. Given the absence of a formal classific...