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by decreasing of sturgeon stocks in the caspian sea, the culture of different sturgeon species especially huso huso was increased in iran. under stress conditions sturgeon can easily be infected by several opportunistic pathogens. in june 2011, mortality happened in 25-28°c water temperature, in one of the most important cultured sturgeon farms in mazandaran province in the north of iran. the m...

Cystic Hygroma is a well-recognized lesion in paediatric patients but it is very rare in adults. We report here a case of Cervical Cystic Hygroma in a 45 yr old male. The reasons to present this case are 1) Its rarity in adults 2) Unusual age of presentation 3) Simulates various benign and malignant lesions at this site 4) Is a diagnostic challenge and 5) Role of histology for definitive postop...

foreign body aspiration is unusual in adults, except those who are debilitated or have neuropsychiatric disorders. it can be a life-threatening situation and it often requires a high index of suspicion, because the diagnosis can be obscure. prompt diagnosis and intervention through foreign body retrieval are critical to prevent significant morbidity and mortality. we present a case of denture a...

immunoproliferative small intestinal disease (ipsid) is the syndrome associated with mediterranean lymphoma (a rare form of non-hodgkin’s lymphoma). many of the patients diagnosed with secretory ipsid have variable level of abnormal immunoglobulins in serum or other bodily fluids, identified as truncated alpha heavy chain globulins. most cases are characterized by a loss of ability to synthesiz...

accidental infection with animal filarial worms in humans is a dilemma for clinicians and parasitolo­gists throughout the world. to date a variety of such rare parasitoses have been reported mostly in tropics and subtropics. human dirofilariasis is among those unusual zoonotic infections that occasionally have been observed in the eye and in subcutaneous areas exhibiting with nodule for­mation....

the number of patients with end-stage renal disease has steadily increased and improvements in hemodialysis techniques have lead to extended life expectancy. pseudoaneurysm is a relatively rare complication of autogenous vascular access. we have reported a case in which an anastomotic pseudoaneurysm developed in a patient on hemodialysis treatment.

focal epithelial hyperplasia (feh) or heck’s disease is a rare viral infection of the oral mucosa caused by human papilloma virus especially subtypes 13 or 32. the frequency of this disease varies widely from one geographic region and ethnic groups to another. this paper reports an iranian case of extensive focal epithelial hyperplasia. a 35-year-old man with feh is described, in whom the lesio...

sertoli cell tumors of the testis are extremely rare tumors with a heterogeneous pathology. three histological variants have been described: sertoli cell tumor not otherwise specified (nos), large cell calcifying sertoli cell tumor and the sclerosing sertoli cell tumor. the sclerosing sertoli cell tumor described herein is associated with prominent stromal sclerosis. they present as painless sc...

patients and methods the current methodological study went through three consecutive phases. in the first phase, the concept of sexual satisfaction was defined and analyzed by the hybrid model approach. in the second phase, an item pool was generated by the findings of the first phase. finally, the psychometric properties of the scale were evaluated in the third phase. all data analyses were pe...