background cancer pain may be a major problem for health care providers worldwide. according to different studies reporting the pain severity, one-third of patients reported to have moderate to severe pain. management of cancer pain is one of the most important goals of palliative care. recently, different research results on the efficacy of opioid analgesics in chronic pain management have pla...

acanthosis nigricans (an), tripe palm (tp) and sign of lesser trelat (lt) are rare dermatoses which are often seen with malignant conditions. acanthosis nigricans occurs both on the skin and mucus membranes as velvety hyper pigmented lesions in the flexors and around the neck, or papillomatous and verrucous lesions on the lips and buccal mucosa. these para neoplastic dermatoses are generally li...

background: blind percutaneous pleural biopsy has traditionally been performed to investigate the etiology of exudative pleural effusion in which the initial thoracocentesis has been non- diagnostic. in view of the increasing use of image-guided and thoracoscopic pleural biopsies, this study examined the role of blind abrams pleural biopsy in the investigation of the exudative pleural effusion ...

background and purpose: invasive candidiasis (ic) is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with hematologic disorders and bone marrow transplant recipients. rapid, specific and sensitive test for the timely accuracy in immunocompromised patients to reduce mortality rates and prevent ic progress is necessary. we established a real-time pcr assay on blood for the diagnosis an...

the coexistence of two malignancies is rarely seen. a little association between hematologic malignancies especially multiple myeloma and renal cell carcinoma has been reported in the recent past. several case series revealed a bidirectional association between these two malignancies which may be due to the common risk factors, similar cytokine growth requirements and clinical presentation. her...

background: risk of malignancy index (rmi) is the best method for discriminating benign and malignant pelvic masses. the aim of this study was to determine the rmi for preoperative evaluation of pelvic mass. methods: this study was performed on 182 women with adenexal mass referred to yahyahnejiad hospital of babol university of medical sciences in iran from 2007 to 2009.the sensitivity, specif...

aim: thyroid scan with sestamibi is used for evaluation of thyroid nodules with the aim of increasing specificity before surgery. in this study we evaluated the role of sestamibi thyroid scan in candidates for thyroid surgery. methods and patients: during two years, 37 patients were studied with solitary thyroid nodules, referred for thyroid surgery due to malignant or suspicious fnab results (...