During the months of April and May 2014, vegetation structure was measured on the 150 selected plots. The altitude and plot boundary coordinates were recorded using Garmin eTrex GPS. Plot size was calculated based on plot boundary coordinates in R Statistics (R Core Team, 2014) using the sp package (Pebesma and Bivand 2005). The number of coffee tr...
Abstract Background Desmoid-type fibromatosis is a benign mesenchymal neoplastic process. It exhibits an uncertain growth pattern and high recurrence rate. Previously radical surgical resection was the mainstay of treatment, but recently more surgeons are opting for conservative management with observation (“wait and see” policy). The authors inten...
Abstract Background The objectives of this study were to determine the minimum incidence of penile cancer in the poorest Brazilian state, and to describe the epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of patients diagnosed with the disease. Methods A retrospective study of 392 patients diagnosed with penile cancer in the three most important referr...
The authors are grateful to the Municipal Secretary of Health of Curitiba, ZCC, for providing the data archive, to the University of State of Sao Paulo (UNESP - Botucatu) and University of Sao Paulo (USP) for financial and technical support, and for all work by ZCC that directly or indirectly contributed for this study.
Abstract Background The objectives of this study were to determine the minimum incidence of penile cancer in the poorest Brazilian state, and to describe the epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of patients diagnosed with the disease. Methods A retrospective study of 392 patients diagnosed with penile cancer in the three most important referr...
Abstract Background The objectives of this study were to determine the minimum incidence of penile cancer in the poorest Brazilian state, and to describe the epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of patients diagnosed with the disease. Methods A retrospective study of 392 patients diagnosed with penile cancer in the three most important referr...
The authors are grateful to the Municipal Secretary of Health of Curitiba, ZCC, for providing the data archive, to the University of State of Sao Paulo (UNESP - Botucatu) and University of Sao Paulo (USP) for financial and technical support, and for all work by ZCC that directly or indirectly contributed for this study.
This study was supported by FAPESP, CNPq and CAPES (Brasíla-Br).
The two funding sources were the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) and Edwards LTDA (Irvine, CA, USA), which had no other role in the study.
This study was supported by FAPESP, CNPq and CAPES (Brasíla-Br).
