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...

The quantitative measurement of viscoelasticity nano-scale entities is an important goal nanotechnology research and there considerable progress with advent dynamic atomic force microscopy. hydrodynamics cantilever, the sensor in AFM measurements, plays a pivotal role estimates viscoelasticity. point-mass (PM) model, wherein cantilever approximated as mass-less spring widely used analysis its v...

aim : to investigate if hepatic iron content influences the response to therapy in patients with chronic hepatitis c or b. background : it seems that the presence of elevated body iron stores and, in particular, elevated hepatic iron levels, is one of the strongest predictors of resistance to interferon treatment for chronic hepatitis c or b. patients and methods : two hundred and one patients ...