o bjectives: to evaluate the accuracy of sonography in diagnosing acute appendicitis in patients with alvarado score 4–7. m e thods: this is a retrospective cross-sectional study being performed in namazee hospital affiliated with shiraz university of medical sciences during a one year period from 9/2007 to 9/2008. we evaluated all patients with alvarado score 4-7 and divided them in two groups...

a number of studies has shown that orally administered sweet-tasting solutions reduce signs of pain during painful procedures. the local anesthetic cream emla has recently been shown to be safe for use in neonates. the present study aimed to compare the pain-reducing effect of emla cream with that of orally administered glucose during venipuncturing in newborns in yazd city. a randomized, contr...

conclusions there was a statistically significance correlation between thyrads score and pathologic bethesda scoring system. decision making basis on the radiologic thyrads score can improve the radiological diagnosis precision in nodular goiter patients. results the mean age (± standard deviation) of patients was 44.5 (± 12.8 years). most of them were female 138 (83.6%). the frequency of final...

Myostatin (GDF-8) is a member of the transforming growth factor beta superfamily of secreted growth and differentiation factors that is essential for proper regulation of skeletal muscle mass in mice. Here we report the myostatin sequences of nine other vertebrate species and the identification of mutations in the coding sequence of bovine myostatin in two breeds of double-muscled cattle, Belgi...

background: one of the main indexes of development is health index or the degree to which a society enjoys health and therapeutic services. the present study was done with the aim to analyze development levels in cities in tehran regarding health infrastructural index using the standardized score and morris’ model. methods: this is a descriptive and pragmatic study which ranks 14 cities in tehr...

how to cite this article: karimzadeh p, ahmadabadi f, jafari n, shariatmadari f, nemati h, ahadi a, karimi dardashti s, mirzarahimi m, dastborhan z, zare noghabi j. study on mri changes in phenylketonuria in patients referred to mofid hospital. iran j child neurol. 2014 spring 8(2):53-56. objective phenylketonuria is one of the most common metabolic disorders and the first known cause of mental...