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Medisan ; 15(10)oct. 2011. tab
Article in Spanish | LILACS | ID: lil-616378

ABSTRACT

Se realizó un estudio descriptivo y transversal de 3 324 escolares argelinos de 5 a 14 años, pertenecientes a 10 comunas de la Wilaya de Djelfa en la República Argelina Democrática y Popular, atendidos por la Brigada Médica Cubana Vilma Espín Guillois desde septiembre de 2007 hasta mayo de 2009. La investigación se basó en determinar los percentiles de peso, talla e índice de masa corporal por edad y sexo de la mencionada población, según las normas cubanas y las referencias de la Organización Mundial de la Salud y el Centro Nacional de Estadísticas de la Salud, a partir de cuyos resultados se elaboraron las tablas correspondientes para poder evaluar el proceso de crecimiento y estado nutricional de todos los niños y niñas de esas edades en dicho país.


A descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out in 3 324 Algerian schoolchildren aged between 5 to 14 years, belonging to 10 communes of Wilaya de Djelfa in the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, attended by Vilma Espín Guillois Cuban Medical Brigade from September 2007 to May 2009. The investigation was based on determining the percentiles of weight, height and body mass index by age and sex of this population, according to the Cuban regulations and references of the World Health Organization and National Center for Health Statistics, from which results tables were made to evaluate the process of growth and nutritional status in children of those ages in this country.


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Humans , Male , Female , Child , Adolescent , Adolescent Nutrition , Body Mass Index , Body Weight , Body Weights and Measures , Child Nutrition , Education, Primary and Secondary , Growth , Nutritional Sciences/education , Weight by Height , Cross-Sectional Studies , Epidemiology, Descriptive
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Medisan ; 14(5)jun.-jul. 2010. ilus
Article in Spanish | LILACS | ID: lil-576677

ABSTRACT

Se presenta el caso clínico de una niña argelina de 7 años de edad, con exoftalmos del ojo derecho de 3 años de evolución, que acudió a la consulta externa del Hospital Oftalmológico Amistad Argelia-Cuba de la Willaya de Djelfa en la República Democrática y Popular de Argelia. En el examen físico se encontraron numerosas manchas de color café con leche diseminadas por todo el cuerpo y tumor exofítico palpebral del lado derecho; y en el oftalmológico especializado: nódulos de Lisch. Por medio de la tomografía axial computarizada de cráneo se comprobó un proceso tumoral intraocular y tumor palpebral derechos, que infiltraban los músculos oculomotores: oblicuo menor y externo derecho. Se concluyó que la paciente presentaba neurofibromatosis de von Recklinghausen.


The clinical case of a 7-year-old Algerian girl with 3 year-exophthalmos of the right eye is reported who went to the outpatient department of the Ophthalmology Hospital Amistad Argelia-Cuba from Wilaya de Djelfa in the Democratic and People's Republic of Algeria. On physical examination numerous coffee-and-milk spots spread throughout the body and lid exophytic tumor of the right side were found, and in the specialized ophthalmologic testing: Lisch nodules. Cranial computerized axial tomography revealed a right intraocular tumor process and right palpebral tumor infiltrating oculomotor muscles: inferior oblique and right external. It was concluded that the patient presented with von Recklinghausen's neurofibromatosis.


Subject(s)
Humans , Female , Child , Exophthalmos , Eyelid Neoplasms , Neurofibromatoses , Neurofibromatosis 1 , Tomography, Spiral Computed
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