Background: Bone lesion in multiple myeloma (MM) is most commonly presented as a lytic lesion in this disease. Determination of extent of bone lesions in MM is necessary to follow-up the patients. Whole body bone scan with 99m, Tc-methylene diphosphonate (MDP) has a lower sensitivity than other modalities. Methods: From the patients with MM admitted to Ayatollah Rouhani Hospital of Babol-Iran ...

case presentation a preterm neonate with suspicious rt renal mass and oligohydramnios at prenatal ultrasound was hospitalized due to respiratory distress and hypertension. although postnatal ultrasound showed enlarged echogenic rt kidney and normal sized echogenic lt kidney, regarding to linear array transducer findings, arpkd was considered rather than renal mass. the diagnosis was confirmed a...

elongation of the styloid process or stylohyoid ligament calcification is a well recognized finding of dental practice, and an incidence of 4 to 30 percent has been reported on radiographs. rarely, complete mineralization of the stylohyoid ligament or elongation of styloid process has been associated with difficulties in intubation and significant clinical symptoms, which is termed eagle’s synd...

This paper describes experiences in using precise definitions of medical processes as the basis for analyses aimed at finding and correcting defects leading to improvements in patient safety. The work entails the use of the Little-JIL process definition language for creating the precise definitions, the Propel system for creating precise specifications of process requirements, and the FLAVERS s...

Programmed cell death (pcd) is thought to occur during the autolysis of xylem vessels. Although several ultrastructural aspects of this differentiation process have been characterized, certain key aspects of this process remain unsolved. Here we demonstrate in pea (Pisum sativum) that nuclei of vessel elements undergoing pcd contain fragmented nDNA. This finding may provide evidence for the act...

One of the most challenging issues in the field of creativity is finding an approach conducent to understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying insight. We propose investigating the process of insight within the context of implicit learning paradigms. The training tasks in implicit learning paradigms are regularly constructed and, although participants are not informed about the ...

in this article, thanks to phenomenological approach, an attempt is made to account the correlation between globalization and neo-regionalism. in the process, the finding of this scholar convinced him to reject antithetical correlation between the two. instead, he argues neo-regionalism is and ecopolitical current to adjust globalization. in the final analysis, it is argued both currents are re...

In the tube drawing process, there are a bunch of parameters which play key role in process performance. Thus, finding the optimized parameters is a controversial issue. Current study aimed to produce a squared section of round tube by tube sinking process. To simulate the process finite element method (FEM) was used. Then, to find a meaningful kinship between process input and output parameter...