* Dahir Ramos De Andrade Júnior, Rodrigo Becco De Souza, Sânia Alves Dos Santos, Dahir Ramos De Andrade

Oxygen free radicals are molecules that present unpaired electrons in their outer orbit and can transform
other molecules such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids and deoxyribonucleic acid.

* Lúcia Andrade, Adílson C. Rodrigues Jr., Talita R. C. Sanches, Rodrigo B. Souza, and Antonio Carlos Seguro

Nephrology Department, Laboratory of Basic Science, University of São Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil – Submitted 28 March 2006; accepted in final form 23 August 2006

Andrade L, Rodrigues AC Jr, Sanches TRC, Souza RB, Seguro AC. Leptospirosis leads to dysregulation of sodium transporters in the kidney and lung. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 292: F586–F592, 2007.

Traumatismo cranioencefálico por projétil de arma de fogo: experiência de 16 anos do serviço de neurocirurgia da Santa Casa de São Paulo

* Rodrigo Becco de Souza 1; Alexandre Bossi Todeschini 1; José Carlos Esteves Veiga, TCBC-SP2; Nelson Saade 3; Guilherme Brasileiro de Aguiar 3

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Objective: To evaluate the epidemiology and prognostic factors associated with traumatic brain injury by a firearm projectile (FAP). Methods: We reviewed the medical records of 181 patients in the Department of Neurosurgery of Santa Casa de São Paulo (São Paulo Holy House) diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI) resulting from FAP from January 1991 to December 2005.

* Rodrigo Becco de Souza Guilherme Brasileiro de Aguiar Nelson Saade and José Carlos Esteves Veiga

Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Santa Casa Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil

Keywords. Cauda equina syndrome · Filum terminale · Myxopapillary ependymoma · Pediatric ependymoma

Abstract. The majority of the filum terminale ependymomas are of the myxopapillary type, which most commonly present as lumbago or sciatic pain, an insidious clinical condition, at times accompanied by paraparesis, bladder paresis and vesical alterations. We report the case of a 13-year-old patient who presented with acute cauda equina. He underwent total resection of the lesion, which resulted in progressive improvement. The clinical conditions, diagnoses and treatments of the medullary cone and cauda equina myxopapillary ependymomas are also discussed.

* Juan Antonio Castro-Flores 1, Carlos Eduardo Roelke 2, Luis Fernando Falcão 3, Rodrigo Becco de Souza 4, Tae Yoon Moon 5, Raimundo Santos 6, Guilherme Brasileiro de Aguiar 7, Bruno Nóbrega 8

Hospital São Camilo (Santana), Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (HCFMUSP), Escola Paulista de Medicina da Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp/EPM) e da Irmandade da Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Paulo (ISCMSP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil.

* Sarah La Porta Weber, Rodrigo Becco de Souza, José Álvaro Pereira Gomes and Ana Luaisa Hofling-Lima

Purpose:

To evaluate the efficacy of the Esclera scleral contact lens (SCL) treatment and its impact on clinical testing for moderate to severe dry eye disease (DED).

* Rodrigo Becco de Souza (a), Guilherme Brasileiro de Aguiar (a), Jefferson Walter Daniela (a), Mário Luiz Marques Contia (a) and José Carlos Esteves Veiga (b)

(a) Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, Santa Casa Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil
(b) Department of Neurosurgery, Santa Casa Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil

Received 10 December 2012
Revised 8 January 2013
Accepted 14 January 2013