We have reviewed the clinical presentation of 100 consecutive culture positive cases of brucellosis which came under our care during the last two years. Of these, six had atypical presentations and but for the routine practice of sending blood for brucella culture, the diagnosis would have been missed. The unusual presentations included a 19 year old boy presenting as an acute abdomen ending in...

purpose : granular cell tumors (gct) are benign unusual neoplasms which have been proven to have a schwann cell phenotype. they rarely occur in the eye region. case reports : we report three cases of gct in the ocular adnexa including palpebra, subconjuctiva and orbit which rarely occur. patients are, a young girl with the lesion in orbit and presentation of proptosis, a middle aged man with th...

Article history: Received 30 June 2011 Received in revised form 12 October 2011 Accepted 19 October 2011 Available online 5 December 2011 This article explores why it is often difficult for organizations to capture, store, and share employees' individually held expertise. Drawing on studies of the social construction of expertise and theories of transactive memory systems and self-presentation ...

Selfies (self-portrait photographs often taken with a camera phone) are popularly used for selfpresentation in social media like Facebook and Instagram. These modern user-generated self-portraits have the potential to draw a more versatile picture of the genders instead of reproducing traditional gender stereotypes often presented in mainstream media and advertising. To investigate the degree o...

conclusions sever thrombocytopenia and bleeding may be the presentation of brucellosis. case presentation we report on an eight-year-old boy who presented epistaxis and gum bleeding. the physical examination revealed petechiae, purpura, ecchymosis, and cervical while inguinal lymphadenopathy and splenomegaly were noted. brucella agglutinin titer was positive. after five days of specific therapy...

conclusions in cd4 positive cell count below 500, the dominant radiographic pattern of tuberculosis is atypical presentation. at this level of immunity, cd 4 positive t cell dysfunction may play a deterministic role in tb radiographic manifestation. results of a total 15 patients (86.7% men and 13.3% women), 78.6% had cd4 positive counts below 350 (mean ± sd; 229.15 ± 199.45). the most common r...

although research on adult subjects has demonstrated a positive correlation between humor and increased concentrations of secretory immunoglobulin a, the literature has not addressed whether humor might have a similar effect on children. fifth grade student volunteers (n= 190) at elementary schools in hamadan were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups. the study compared secretory i...

  Background and Objective: To evaluate extended spectrum betalactamase (ESBL) positive strains of Klebsiella pneumonia and Escherichia coli in positive bacterial cultures. Materials and Methods: In this analytical cross-sectional study, between March 2006 and March 2007, 170 bacterial isolates including 133 cases of E. coli and 37cases of K. pneumonia were...