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Prostate cancer is the most frequent neoplasm in Mexican men, the research literature contains few studies that address prostate cancer patients and quality of life in Mexico. ⋯ This Mexican version of FACT-P showed reliability and validity comparable to the original one.
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Los lipomas gástricos corresponden al 5% de los lipomas gastrointestinales. Muchos de ellos son solitarios, pequeños y asintomáticos, pero también pueden ocasionar síntomas obstructivos y sangrados. El tratamiento estándar es quirúrgico. ⋯ Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is the procedure of choice for the excision of giant gastric lipomas in the morbidly obese, when anatomically feasible.
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In late December 2019, COVID-19, a new emerging disease, quickly spread in Wuhan, China. The WHO formally declared it a pandemic and a health emergency on March 11th, 2020. ⋯ The time to take leadership in healthcare where the national health system together with academic societies, universities and private initiative join forces to combat the pandemic has arrived. It is convenient to form collaboration groups of experts in the different specialties that through innovation in health and education, with evidence-based medicine, efficiency of operational costs and tools such as telemedicine, allow us to return to daily surgical procedures, reestablishing the surgery services as soon as possible.