patients were classified as having lymph node metastasis, and their 5-year survival rate was 50%. Disseminated disease was diagnosed in only 8 patients, who had a Section of Dermatologic Oncology, Department median survival of 6 months. Comparison of survival probabilities for patients of Dermatology, Eberhard-Karls-University, with in-transit metastases and unknown primary tumors with the probabilities for Tuebingen, Germany.those with cutaneous primary tumors revealed a significant advantage for the former group. No significant differences were found for patients with lymph node metastasis when those with unknown primary tumors were compared with those who had cutaneous melanomas with regional lymph node metastasis. CONCLUSIONS.The clinical disease course of patients with metastatic melanoma of unknown primary origin is similar to that of patients with primary cutaneous melanoma when the same clinical stages of the disease are compared. Based on the assumption that the majority of regional metastases develop from completely regressed primary cutaneous melanoma, recommendations for initial staging examinations in patients with unknown primary tumors are given in this article.

Dental treatment of patients with leukemia should be planned on the basis of antineoplastic therapy which can be chemotherapy with or without radiotherapy and bone marrow transplantation. Many are the oral manifestations presented by these patients, arising from leukemia and/or treatment. In addition, performing dental procedures at different stages of treatment (before, during, or after) must follow certain protocols in relation to the haematological indices of patients, aimed at maintaining health and contributing to the effectiveness of the results of antineoplastic therapy. Through a literature review, the purpose of this study was to report the hematological abnormalities present in patients with leukemia, trying to correlate them with the feasibility of dental treatment at different stages of the disease. It is concluded in this paper that dental treatment in relation to haematological indices presented by patients with leukemia must follow certain protocols, mainly related to neutrophil and platelet counts, and the presence of the dentist in a multidisciplinary team is required for the health care of this patient.

The letter to the editor published by Villa, Sankar, and Shiboski (2020) encouraged us to also share our tele(oral)medicine model, proposed for the State of Santa Catarina (Brazil) and recently launched due to

Poor description of oral lesions jeopardize the prioritization of appointments in Oral Medicine. The present study investigated whether the use of support tools changes the quality of descriptions focusing on health care prioritization. Two oral lesions (A and B) were described by 64 dental students and 48 dentists using three methods: (a) without support tools (free); (b) using the oral examination form from the Specialties Manual in Oral Health/Brazilian Ministry of Health (SMOH form); and (c) using the OralDESC guideline. The descriptions were compared with a gold standard and percentage of agreement was analyzed by the Kruskal-Wallis and Dunn's tests (p<0.05). Descriptions with the OralDESC presented higher information quality. Considering items essential for prioritization, the OralDESC demonstrated better performance for lesion A; for lesion B, free descriptions and descriptions using the OralDESC were of higher quality than those using SMOH form. Therefore, the OralDESC offered greater support for the description of oral lesions for health care prioritization in Oral Medicine.

Objective: Cancer, particularly, during young adulthood, can evoke difficult emotions, interfere with normative developmental activities, and challenge coping responses. Emotion-regulating coping efforts aimed at active emotional processing (EP) and emotional expression (EE) can be beneficial to cancer adjustment and perceptions of positive growth. However, it may be that EP and EE work differently to influence well-being. This study examines relationships of EP and EE with psychological distress, posttraumatic growth (PTG), and resilience. We expect that EP will be positively associated with PTG and resilience, whereas EE will be negatively associated with psychological distress. Methods: Young adults with cancer (M age ¼ 34.68, N ¼ 57) completed measures of emotional; approach coping (EP and EE), psychological distress (depressive symptoms, fear of cancer; recurrence [FCR]) and indicators of positive adjustment and growth (resilience and PTG). Results: Greater use of EP was associated with higher resilience (β ¼ 0.48, p ¼ 0.003) and PTG (β ¼ 0.27, p ¼ 0.05), whereas greater use of EE was associated with lower resilience (β ¼ À 0.33, p ¼ 0.04). The EE � EP interaction was significant for FCR (β ¼ 0.29, p ¼ 0.04) such that low EE was associated with lower FCR in those with high EP. Interaction effects were not significant for depressive symptoms, resilience, or PTG. Conclusions: Findings highlight differing relationships between EP and EE among young adults with cancer. Interventions aimed at increasing emotion-regulating coping strategies may prove useful in facilitating positive adjustment and growth, strengthening young adults' ability to cope with the diverse effects of disease, treatment, and survivorship.

A boa comunicação escrita é uma habilidade essencial para a troca de informações entre profissionais da saúde. No contexto do SUS, essa troca ocorre por meio de documentos de referência e contrarreferência. Considerando as lesões bucais que necessitam de avaliação na atenção secundária, documentos de referência permitem avaliar a necessidade clínica e a urgência de cada caso, com impactos na priorização do acesso. A falta de detalhamento e concisão dos documentos de referência impacta na agilidade do fluxo do paciente entre os níveis de atenção à saúde e, consequentemente, na qualidade do cuidado a ele oferecido. Visando aprimorar o detalhamento dos documentos de referência em Estomatologia na região da Grande Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, foi desenvolvido o OralDESC - um roteiro de apoio à descrição de lesões bucais. O roteiro também vem sendo utilizado pelas disciplinas relacionadas ao Diagnóstico Bucal na Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Além de apresentar o roteiro, este trabalho procura ampliar a análise da questão, apresentando alguns desafios para a implantação dos complexos regulatórios no Brasil, bem como as dificuldades relatadas no país e em outras parte do mundo no que se refere à qualidade dos documentos de referência. Adicionalmente, apresenta a visão de alguns autores sobre o potencial educativo dos processos de referência e contrar-referência e a importância da formação para a comunicação escrita. São partilhadas, ainda, reflexões sobre a necessidade de inclusão, nos currículos acadêmicos, de atividades que permitam o desenvolvimento de habilidades de comunicação por estudantes de Odon-tologia, de forma a capacitá-los à atuação em redes de atenção que privilegiam a interação multiprofissional, interdisciplinar e trans-disciplinar.

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