ABSTRACT Pleomorphic hyalinizing angiectatic tumor (PHAT) of soft tissues is a rare, non-metastatic tumor of unknown etiology and uncertain behavior, which may recur locally. There are few reports on this condition, and due to the rarity of the disease, its lineage has not yet been fully elucidated. The present study aims to report the case of an unusual entity observed for the first time in vulval topography. A female patient, 83 years old, presented with a tumor in the vulvar region that had evolved for approximately 4 months. Magnetic resonance imaging showed an expansive perineal formation of 8.5 × 3.5 cm, and a hemivulvectomy with a flap rotation was performed. The review of the slides revealed a mesenchymal lesion without significant atypia, which was richly vascularized. In the areas of interest, the immunohistochemical (IHC) study demonstrated positivity for CD34, estrogen, and progesterone receptors; it was negative for the other tested markers. Morphological findings associated with the IHC staining panel supported the diagnosis of PHAT. The main morphological features of PHAT are clusters of ectatic vessels of different sizes that show deposits of subendothelial and intraluminal fibrin. Fusiform and pleomorphic cells randomly arranged in leaves or long fascicles intermingle these vessels. It is essential to recognize this entity and consider it among the differential diagnoses of a mesenchymal lesion, given the wide variety of entities that comprise this group of lesions.

Foram estudados 263 casos de uretrites gonocócicas no sexo masculino, casos constantes dos arquivos do Centro Médico Sanitário da III Região Administrativa do Estado da Guanabara e selecionados ao acaso, sendo escolhidos os casos de tratamento encerrado. Todos os casos foram diagnosticados por bacterioscopia e ocorreram entre janeiro de 1968 e junho de 1969. A maioria dos casos ocorreu nos pacientes mais jovens (20 a 24 anos) e solteiros, de ocupações variadas, porém de classe sócio-econômica inferior. O tempo de incubação mais encontrado foi de 4 dias (58,9%) e o modo de contágio mais freqüente foi evidentemente o contato sexual (250 casos). Cêrca de 90% dos casos curaram-se antes de 2 meses, sendo que o medicamento mais usado no combate da blenorragia foi a penicilina, tendo havido porém 49 casos que não responderam bem a êste antibiótico, tendo sido curados com outros medicamentos. Ocorreu uma complicação comprovada da uretrite gonocócica, que foi uma orquite, e ressaltou-se a associação da gonorréia com outras doenças, especialmente com o cancro de Ducrey, o que ocorreu em 6 casos (2,2%).

Data on 263 cases of mais gonorrhea ocurring from January, 1968 to June 1969, in the City of Rio de Janeiro, are presented. In every oase clinical diagnosis was confirmed through bacterioscopic examination of Gram stained smears. Young adult of low levei socio-economia classes predominated in the studied cases, reaehing higher incidence in the 20 to 24 age group. The mean incubation period corresponded to 4 days (58.9 percent) and 250 cases revealed contagiou through heterosexual intercourse, while 12 cases did not recognize sexual relations. Persistence of symptoms extended beyond one month in more than half the cases, and 9.5 per cent reached more than two months for complete clinical recovery. Penicillin, alone or in association with the sulphamides was sucessfully employed for treatment in most cases, but 49 (18.6 per cent) patients had to receive other antibiotics, due to apparent clinical resistance to the former treatment. Gonorrhea was associateá with other venereal infectious in 14 cases (5.4 percent) mainly soft chancre and syphilis, besides herpes genitalis. Only one case of orchitis was found as a complication of the gonococcal uretritis.