This thesis concerns the study of existence, nonexistence and a priori estimates of nonnegative solutions of some types of degenerate coercive and non coercive elliptic problems involving an additional term which depends on the gradient. Among other things, we obtain generalized integral conditions of Keller-Osserman type for the existence and nonexistence of solutions. Also, we show that different conditions are needed when p is higher or equal to 2 or p is less than or equal to 2, due to the degeneracy of the operator. The uniform a priori estimates are obtained for supersolutions and solutions of superlinear elliptic PDE or systems of such PDE in divergence form that can contain different operators and nonlinearities. We also give full boundary extensions to some half Harnack inequalities and quantitative Hopf lemmas, for degenerate elliptic operators like the p-Laplacian.