conclusions a majority of ovarian masses, especially those diagnosed within a short duration after hysterectomy, are benign. iranian patients with such ovarian masses when asymptomatic and associated with negative tumor markers could be followed up, and prophylactic oophorectomy may not be necessary. results of the 1052 patients with ovarian masses, 45patients (mean age, 53.11 ± 9.56 years) who...

onion is one of the important strategic crop plants of a highly valuable nutritional food source, consumed almost around the whole world. thus, the genetically oriented studies around the plant are valuable and inevitable. for a following of these studies, some onion masses from various regions throughout iran, including: kashan-white, azarshahr-red, isfahan-dorcheh, ghom-white, zanjan-gholighe...

background and aims: there are different causes for brain death including head trauma, cerebrovascular accidents and intracranial space-occupying lesions. the present study was aimed to determine the causes of brain death in chahar mahal and bakhtiari province due to high turnover of trauma in this area during 2003 to 2013. methods: this study was based on routine data and was conducted on all ...

background : studies have emphasized on the frontal eeg  symmetry as a mediator of emotional states. this research was aimed to examine the overall and asymmetric activities of the brain lobes under the affective states. methods : a coupling eeg was recorded in an eye closed awakened condition from 40 right handed female students under the baseline and affective states. results : bilaterally de...

background & objectives: with regard to the mediastinum importance as a central region of thorax and its physiologic traffic of vital structures,the knowledge of mediastinal masses is necessary. this survey was conducted to determine the prevalence of different kinds of mediastinal tumors in patients who underwent surgical procedures at taleghani hospital between 2002 and 2006. methods & materi...

Gestational trophoblastic diseases (GTDs) are disorders with abnormal growth of the placenta. They are always associated with a conception.(1) Choriocarcinoma that is a malignant type of GTD, can spread virtually anywhere in the body through hematogenous or lymphatic route, but it most commonly spreads to lung, lower genital tract (cervix, vagina, and vulva), brain, and liver.(2) We report a ca...

Intracerebral amyloidoma is the least common form of amyloid deposition in the brain. CT and MR imaging features in a case of pathologically proved cerebral amyloidoma are presented, and the available literature is reviewed. Typical imaging features of this entity include solitary or multiple supratentorial white matter masses that are hyperattenuated on nonenhanced CT. They have little or no m...