introduction: breast cancer is the most common of all malignant neoplasms in women worldwide. this study aims to demonstrate certain biological, clinical and pathological characteristics of patients treated at the university hospital oncology unit. methods: a descriptive study was conducted during a period of 2 years, from october 2003 through september of 2005 in kermanshah, iran. 555 patients...

following experimental inoculation of 3-week-old turkeys with different titres (106, 104, 103, 102 and 101 egg infectious dose (eid50)) of a/ostrich/italy/984/2000 h7n1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (hpaiv), the selected tissues and organs were examined for pathological changes. tissue samples from different organs that obtained from dead and sacrificed birds were fixed in 10% neutral...

we studied the hepatotoxic effects of a deltamethrin containing formulation (decis®) on developing em-bryo of gallus domesticus. fertilized eggs were immersed in three different concentrations of deltamethrin (12.5, 25 and 50 mg/l) for 60 min at 37 ˚c prior to incubation (ed 0) and on the 4th day of incubation (ed 4) and incubated till embryonic day (ed) 16. exposure to 50 mg/l of deltamethrin ...

Idiopathic neonatal priapism is a rare pathology with an estimated incidence of 15/10,000 births. Despite the distressing clinical picture, it relatively benign pathology. We report case idiopathic treated in our department, newborn on day 1 life no known pathological family history. The picture was characterized by permanent, painless erection penis associated signs or change skin color. No et...

Multicentric Castleman disease (MCD) is an uncommon systemic lymphoproliferative disease. The diagnosis of this typically challenging and requires collaboration between clinicians pathologists. Moreover, it important to exclude other diseases (such as malignancies, autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases) that have similar clinical manifestations pathological findings. Patients with untreated ...

BACKGROUND In this study, four lung lesion scoring methods (Slaughterhouse Pleurisy Evaluation System [SPES], Consolidation Lung Lesion Score [LLS], Image analyses [IA] and Ratio of lung weight/body weight [LW/BW]) were compared for the assessment of the different pathological outcomes derived from an Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (App) experimental infection model. Moreover, pathological dat...

OBJECTIVES AND METHODS To assess the impairment of supraspinal control over spinal sympathetic centres and the occurrence of autonomic dysreflexia in patients with spinal cord injury. Autonomic dysreflexia is caused by the disconnection of spinal sympathetic centres from supraspinal control and is characterised by paroxysmal hypertensive episodes caused by non-specific stimuli below the level o...

UNLABELLED There is disagreement about the association between missing teeth and the presence of temporomandibular disorder (TMD). AIM To investigate whether, the span of edentulousness, gender, number of quadrants involved, pathological migration and the type of kennedy's classification are related to the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) dysfunction signs. MATERIALS AND METHODS Clinical exami...