Bernard Bolzano—Not as unknown to His contemporaries as is commonly believed?

Rickettsial Diseases in India: Not as Uncommon as Believed.

Is littoral cell angioma of the spleen as rare as previously believed in the pediatric population?

Littoral cell angioma (LCA) is a rare primary splenic vascular tumor, originating from the littoral cells lining the red pulp sinuses of the spleen. There are only a handful of case reports of LCA in children to be found in the literature. We performed a retrospective analysis of the medical charts of pediatric patients with splenic lesions who were treated between 2005 and 2010 in the Pediatri...

Is Myocardial Infarction in Patients without Significant Stenosis on a Coronary Angiogram as Benign as Believed?

The present study aimed to investigate the clinical characteristics and 1-year outcomes of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients without significant stenosis on a coronary angiogram comparison with the clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with significant coronary artery stenosis. A total of 1,220 patients with AMI were retrospectively classified into Group I (≥50% diameter st...

VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS AS FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN

Visceral leishmaniasis is the second most common cause of fever of unknown origin in our study. This disease is not common in adults, although it's endemic among the pediatric age group. The majority of the affected individuals were young. High grade spiking fever, chills and splenomegaly were unique findings. Other common findings were neutropenia, anemia, abnormal liver function tests, st...

Is meatal stenosis so important as to discourage neonatal circumcision?

Introduction: Circumcision is proposed as the world’s oldest and most controversial operation and meatal stenosis as the most common complication of neonatal circumcision. Published studies in Iran are deficient regarding this complication. This research shows the rate of meatal stenosis in children less than one year in Birjand-Iran. Methods: This descriptive study incorporated all children y...