Background: Sturge-Weber syndrome is one of the rare neurocutaneous disorders with frequency of approximately 1 per 50,000. Sturge-Weber syndrome consists of a constellation of symptoms and signs including a facial nevus (port wine stain), seizure and hemiparesis. In many cases it may associate with mental retardation. Case presentation: A 7- year old girl with mental retardation and a large fa...

A known complication of chronic renal failure (CRF) is osteodystrophy. In order to determine the effects of parathyroidectomy on treatment and prevention of osteodystrophy progression in patients with CRF, a retrospective study was carried out in 16 hemodialysis patients. 62% of the patients underwent total, 12% subtotal and 26% total parathyroidectomy with simultaneous autograft in shahid Rahn...