skin cancer has been the most usual and illustrates 50% of all new cancers detected each year. if they detected at an early stage, treatment can become simple and economically. accurate skin lesion segmentation is important in automated early skin cancer detection and diagnosis systems. the aim of this study is to provide an effective approach to detect the skin lesion border on a purposed imag...

background & objective: chronic non healing ulcers or scar undergoing malignant transformation is a rare phenomenon with an estimated incidence of 2%. though, numerous predisposing factors have been identified, still it is rarely diagnosed and commonly mistaken for a benign condition. the objective of this study was to verify the efficacy of the fine needle aspiration cytology/ scrape cytol...

in this experiment six healthy adult dairy jersey cattles and eight calves (aged 4-6 months) were selected to measure temperature of different body skin sites, rectal temperature, respiration and heart rates during summer and winter. body sites maximum and minimum temperature in calves during summer belonged to the ear, forehead, right flank, abdomen (38.4-38.9 ˚c) and carpus (32 ˚c). this was ...

background necrosis of skin flaps is considered as an important complication in reconstructive surgery. we conducted an experimental study to investigate the efficacy of low-molecular weight heparin, clopidogrel and their combination to improve the flap survival. methods forty male, adult sprague-dawlay rats were divided randomly into 4 groups. standard rectangular, distally based dorsal random...

cutis laxa is rare and hetrogenous group of disorders related to abnormalities in elastic tissue. it may be autosomal recessive, autosomal dominant, x linked or acquired. acquired cutis laxa has developed after a febrile illness, inflammatory skin disease such a lupus eryhymatosis or erythema multiform, amyloidosis, hypersensitivity reaction to penicillin and in infants born from women who were...

world health organization (who) has reported that out of more than 10,000 of 250,000 tuberculosis afflicted children die annually. pulmonary tuberculosis is a research priority in our country, and diagnos-ing this disease especially in children who are known as the major transmitter of the disease is rather difficult. as a result, it was decided to conduct an overall assessment on this age grou...

asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood. exposure to allergens plays an important role in asthma. recently, cockroach has attracted attentions as an important allergen. this study was performed to evaluate cockroach allergy in iranian children with asthma. one hundred children with definite diagnosis of asthma were selected. after obtaining primary information, the severity of th...

the microorganisms have been noted as the main cause of delayed wound healing.the most common pathogen causing the wound infections is staphylococcus aureus. silver nanoparticles (agnps) show ample antibacterial activities. in the present study, the effect of agnps on mouse wounds inoculated with s. aureus was investigated. sixty male mice (20 to 30 g) were anesthetized, full-thickness skin wou...

various studies suggest that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (ssris) may be useful in treating pathological skin picking (psp). this study sought to assess effectiveness of citalopram in comparison with placebo in treating psp. forty five individuals with psp were recruited in a four-week, randomized clinical trial of citalopram (20 mg/day) in comparison with placebo. study measures ass...

introduction the increasing practice of interventional fluoroscopy in diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease has risen attention to improve radiation protection of patients and cardiologists in these relatively high dose techniques. therefore, nowadays there is an emphasis on the measurement of radiation dose received by patients and cardiologists arising from the relevant procedures...