conclusions mucomycosis should be in differncial diagnosis of any chronic infiltrative lesions even without visible necrosis and normal immune status of the patient. introduction cutaneous infection is an uncommon presentation of mucormycosis, usually seen after trauma, at the site of surgical drains or after occlusive dressings. the involved area is erythematous and painful, with varying degre...

patients and methods tae was performed on 20 patients with liver hemangioma. the embolic agent used was polyvinyl alcohol (pva) particles (300-400 micron, jonson and johnson cordis, usa). all patients were followed up for 6 months. imaging was carried out and patients were also evaluated symptomatically through telephone interview by a physician. results twenty patients aged from 21 to 63 years...

introduction: guidelines and rules are very important in patients' behaviors’ domain but this guidelines sets aren’t used practically and coherently in iran`s rules as a title of patients' rights prism. the purpose of this study is to determine the amount of patients' awareness hospitalized in training hospitals of isfahan city from patients' rights prism. methods: this study has been done as a...

how to cite this article:  esmaeeli m, erfani sayar r, saghebi a, elmi saghi, rahmani sh, elmi s, rabbani javadi a. screening for depression in hospitalized pediatric patients. iran j child neurol. 2014 winter; 8(1):47-51.   objective in chronically ill children who are hospitalized, many mood changes occur. for example, in children with cancer or renal failure, prolonged hospitalization and ch...

conclusions the iranian version of the dsi had good psychometric properties and can be used to assess symptoms of hemodialysis patients. results the mean age of patients was 50.4 (sd = 15.72) years and % 61.1 of patients were male. the most commonly reported symptoms were fatigue, being irritable and nervous. divergent validity was mostly supported by the pattern of association between dsi and ...

When pooled immunoglobulin G (IgG) from patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) was used to probe a human fetal spinal cord λgt 11 cDNA library, the IgG was found to bind to a predicted epitope of human mitochondrial ND4 sequence. To investigate the involvement of the ND4 as an autoantigen in MS, we determined the presence of specific antibody in the serum of MS patients and serum samples of...

Background:  Due to difficulty in obtaining anatomical reduction, management of the unstable intertrochanteric fractures in elderly osteoporotic patients is challenging. The purpose of this study is to compare the results of hip arthroplasty (total, hemi, or bipolar) with DHS in the elderly patients with unstable intertrochanteric fractures.   Methods:  We prospectively studied and followed-up ...

in this study, production, quality control and biodistribution studies of 166ho-zoledronate have been presented as a possible bone marrow ablative agent. ho-166 chloride was produced by thermal neutron irradiation of natural 165ho(no3)3 samples. 166ho-zoledronate complex was prepared by adding the desired amount of zoledronate solution (0.2 ml, 150 mg/ml in 1 m naoh) to appropriate amount of th...