Ahmad Bazrafshan

Associate Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Pediatric Dr. Sheikh Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.

[ 1 ] - Laparoscopic Colon Surgery for Benign Disease: A Comparison to Open Surgery

Backgrounds and Objectives: Today we are witnessed a growing number of minimally invasive surgical techniques for different diseases. Laparoscopic colon surgery as a minimally invasive surgery is currently growing in treatment of malignancies after proving his place in the treatment of benign diseases. We compare in this study results of laparoscopic colorectal surgery with open surgery. Method...

[ 2 ] - A wandering spleen detected by 99mTc-denatured RBC scan

A 23 day old infant patient underwent 99mTc-denatured RBC scanning for locating possible ectopic spleen in our department.  The scan showed no tracer activity in normal splenic bed in the left upper quadrant and an ectopic spleen was shown on the right side of abdomen inferior to the liver. 99mTc-denatured RBC scan is an easy and available method for splenic localization i...

[ 3 ] - Tc-99m Phytate lymphoscintigraphy: An excellent method for diagnosis of underlying cause of chylous ascites

We reported a 14 months old boy referred for evaluation of chylous ascites to our nuclear medicine department. Tc-99m Phytate was injected subcutaneously in his calves and whole body images as well as abdominal SPECT were performed. The SPECT images could localize an area of several intestinal lymphangiomata in the abdominal region. The abnormal region was surgically resected and the patient as...