A cross sectional pilot study was carried out to look into the usefulness of percent free prostate specific antigen (fPSA) in the diagnosis of prostatic cancer in HUSM patients. All patients who attended surgical clinic and admitted to surgical wards with signs and symptoms of prostate problems during the study period were taken as the study subjects. Total prostate specific antigen (tPSA) was ...

Metastases from prostate cancer to the brain are very unusual and are seldom reported in the clinical literature. We report 2 cases of advanced stage prostate cancer with intracranial metastasis. One patient developed intracranial metastasis 5 years after step-up treatment. He had hormone refractory prostate cancer with a high level of prostate specific antigen (PSA). Unfortunately, he died of ...

aim and background: the purpose of this study was to compare executive function and sustained attention in students with obsessive–compulsive, high schizotypal and overlapping symptoms and a control group. methods and materials: the present study assessed undergraduate students of tabriz university by ex post facto method. randomized multi-stage cluster sampling was used to select 1570 students...

  Background: Nonspecific symptoms are common in all areas of medicine. Patients and caregivers can be frustrated when an illness cannot be reduced to a discrete pathophysiological process that corresponds with the symptoms. We therefore asked the following questions: 1) Which demographic factors and psychological comorbidities are associated with change from an initial diagnosis of nonspecific...

Background: SARS-CoV-2 is a member of the betacoronavirus genus that primarily targets the human respiratory system and causes pneumonia-like symptoms. Purpose: This article aims to review neuromuscular problems in patients with COVID-19 based on the available evidence and possible consequences. Methods: In this regard, this narrative review study gathered the related and newest studies publi...