vancomycin is a a glycopeptide antibiotic with bacetiocidal effects on gram positive bacteria by interfering with cell wall synthesis. the necessity for monitoring of serum vancomycin concentrations (svcs) has been recently noticed at many institutions because of concerns for its nephrotoxicity. we aimed to describe the svcs monitoring in pediatric patients, in an effort to determine subtherape...

chondroma is a benign tumor which mostly occurs in extremities but also sometimes in brain. most intracranial chondromas arise from skull base, but chondroma of falx origin is a rare circumstance. indeed, the intracranial chondromas rise from falx is mostly in relation with syndromic disorders such as mafucci's syndrome or ollier's syndrome. here, we reported a rare case of falxian intracranial...

the objective of this study was to determine and compare cystatin c changes before and after radiotherapy in patients with stomach cancer who were candidate for radiotherapy. this study was conducted as a prospective cohort one. eighteen patients with definite diagnosis of stomach cancer under treatment by radiotherapy who presented to radiotherapy-oncology center of imam hossein hospital, tehr...

introduction: gail model is one of the most important models for the evaluation of breast cancer risk between us white females. according to genetic diversity, there is a possibility of affecting the efficiency of the gail model in risk assessment of breast cancer among iranian populations. in this study, the gail model efficiency in specifying the risk of breast cancer in iranian population wa...

malignant melanoma has the heart metastasis rate of 50 - 71%, which seems to be the highest among other malignancies. when a patient presents with cardiac metastases of melanoma, the disease has already spread through the body and therefore hardly curable. this brief review tried to introduce this important condition and discuss its frequency, presentation, diagnosis, histologic findings and tr...

Background: In response to the need for diagnosis and treatment, medical radiation has been increasingly used worldwide. This study investigated the medical utilization of radiation-related diseases among radiological technologists (RTs) and factors that influence such diseases. Materials and Methods: Data were collected from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database. A panel study...

To estimate the distribution of lymphoid neoplasms in China, we conducted a comprehensive analysis, based on subtype, age, sex, and lesion, of primary and resected biopsy specimens of 4,638 lymphoid neoplasms diagnosed from 2004 to 2008 at 5 large hospitals. Of the 4,638 patients, mature B-cell neoplasms accounted for 64.3% of all lymphoid neoplasms, mature T/NK-cell neoplasms for 23.3%, and Ho...

BACKGROUND The nutritional status (NS) of patients with neoplasms can affect length of hospital stay. AIM To investigated nutritional changes and risk factors associated with length of hospital stay in patients with neoplasms. METHODS A cross-sectional study was done to investigate nutritional status by classic anthropometry, energy intake, gastrointestinal changes, indicators of nutritiona...

Preputial gland neoplasms in the Fischer 344 rat are relatively uncommon tumors with a prevalence of approximately 3% in the National Toxicology Program data base. They occur late in life, are well differentiated, and rarely metastasize. Based on studies through 4 serial passages, 10 well-differentiated preputial gland neoplasms transplanted into the mammary fat pads of syngeneic recipients gre...

The purpose of this analysis was to evaluate to what extent subsequent malignant neoplasms account for the increasing rates of cancer occurrence among children. Data from the population-based Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program were used to calculate age-standardized annual incidence rates from 1974-1989 for 10 common cancers among children 14 years of age or younger. Mean rates...