kaposiform hemangioendothelioma (khe) appears as a single lesion at birth or early infancy in an equal sex ratio. a rare aggressive vascular proliferation has been recognized as a separate entity from other childhood vascular neoplasm. a 3-year-old iranian boy with a rapidly enlarging mass in his (posterior aspect of skull at the midline) skull was present here. physical examination revealed a ...

background and objective: vascular endothelial growth factor (vegf) is a cytokine which is overexpressed in many malignant cancers including leukemia. vegf plays an important role in tumor invasion and metastasis. determination of the pattern of vegf expression in human leukemic cell lines could be useful not only in screening of new antileukemic agents but also to study the mechanism of their ...

objective: to evaluate the adnexal masses with conventional gray scale and color doppler flow imaging and to assess their diagnostic reliability to differentiate benign and malignant adnexal masses. materials and methods: we evaluated 30 patients with adnexal mass. morphological characterization of the mass was done using sassone score. color doppler parameters noted down in each patient and ca...

this study was conducted to evaluate how neuroimaging procedures (mri, spect) could be used in clinical setting for diagnosis of dementia.forty out of 94 patients suspected of having a diagnosis of dementia, referred to radiology department for consecutive neuroimaging procedures, were selected. patients’ medical records reviewed anda retrospective diagnosis was reached according to dsm-iv for ...

a survey was carried out in citrus nurseries in mazandaran and kerman provinces as the major citrus growing regions of iran. different varieties of orange and tangerine with abnormal symptoms were examined for the occurrence of candidatus liberobacter asiaticus, spiroplasma citri and phytoplasma as the most important vascular limited pathogens in citrus. by visual inspection and molecular exami...

introduction hemangiopericytomas (hpcs) are rare neoplasms which account for approximately 1% of primary vascular tumors. case presentation we report a 73 years old woman with vague abdominal pain who did not have further significant symptoms and was diagnosed to have retroperitoneal hemangiopericytoma. discussion the tumor was initially diagnosed by ultrasound evaluation. mri showed a lobulate...

background: arteriovenous fistula (avf)is the ideal method of vascular access for patients on maintenance hemodialysis (hd).therefore it is an important part of treatment in hd.there are several observations that indicate the role of inflammation in failure of avf.the aim of this study was to evaluate the hematologic and inflammatory biomarkers in early avf failure.   methods : this case-contro...

popliteal artery injuries are mainly seen in military experience. this study was undertaken in a civilian vascular surgical unit with a large trauma workload dealing with traffic accidents. a retrospective review of patients treated between 1995 and 2001 was undertaken. 145 cases of popliteal artery injuries were treated. these cases included 46.89% compound and lacerated injuries due to traffi...