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A Esposito

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[Knowledge about HIV infection in a group of professional nursing students].

A confidential questionnaire was given to 241 students of the nursing school of a Milano Hospital to record the knowledge on HIV infection and their experience with HIV patients during their training in wards different from Infectious Departments. The results evidence a good level of knowledge, comparable to the italian young population (according to other studies) of the same age. Nursing students from the very beginning of their practical training, happen to care for asymptomatic HIV positive subjects, therefore the school should provide knowledge and information on the HIV infection before the beginning of the practical training.

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[Malignant sacrococcygeal teratoma: report of a case of "explosive" intrauterine growth].

An exceptional case of fetal sacrococcygeal teratoma with an exclusive abdominopelvic growth is described. The tumor was not detected on a "routine" ultrasound study obtained at 31 weeks of gestation showing findings of a severe congenital uropathy. It remained unrecognized until the 34 weeks of gestation when the mass began an explosive growth causing a rectouretral fistula. Despite appropriate obstetrical and surgical management the baby died 24 hours later because inadequate pulmonary maturity. The istological findings showing malignant elements such as embryonal carcinomas.

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