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Airway Fibroepithelial Polyp: An Incidental Bronchoscopic Finding...

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Benign tracheobronchial tumors account for only 1.9% of pulmonary tumors1 and airway fibroepithelial polyps are even r...

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The Challenges of Setting Up a Clinical Study with the New European Union Medical Device Regulation...

The new European Union Medical Device Regulation (MDR) – Regulation EU 2017/745, which came into effect on May 26, 2021, expands the...

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A Short Guide on How to Carry Out Validation of Scales Measuring Health Outcomes...

Assessment and quantification happen every day and enhance the capacity of making good decisions that can impact a patient’s surviva...

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Impact of Lifting Mask Mandates on COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality in Portugal: An Ecological Study...

Introduction: The use of face masks in public was one of several COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions adopted to mitigate the pandemic in Portuga...

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Exuberant Plexiform Neurofibroma...

A 60-year-old woman with neurofibromatosis type-1 presented with a 10-year history of an asymptomatic slow-growing erythematous pedunculat...

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A Case Report about the Management of Hereditary Angioedema with Normal Complement Levels during Pre...

Hereditary angioedema (HAE), a rare and underdiagnosed condition characterized by recurrent episodes of mucocutaneous swelling, can lead t...

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How Acta Médica Portuguesa Adjusted to Pandemic Times

A pandemia de COVID-19 tem colocado os sistemas de saúde sob enorme pressão um pouco por todo o mundo, tendo-se verificado nos últimos meses, em Portugal, uma completa reorganização da prestação de cuidados e a constan...

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Update on Atopic Dermatitis

With an increasing prevalence during the past decades, atopic dermatitis has become a global health issue. A literature search following a targeted approach was undertaken to perform this non-systematic review, which intends to provide an overview of the epidemiology...

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Stages for Undertaking a Systematic Review

There has been an increase in the use of systematic review as a research methodology to compile and analyze large datasets of existing studies. With this increase, the recommendations to conduct this type of research also increased. The aim of this article is to prov...

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