Background: Behçet’s disease (BD) is an inflammatory characterized by recurrent oral ulcers, genital ocular manifestations, and vascular involvement. Musculoskeletal symptoms are common both at the time of presentation throughout course BD, similar also observed in pediatric (PEDBD). This study aims to report frequency role musculoskeletal involvement PEDBD followed our clinic. Method: retrospe...

o bjectives: this study sought to assess distal and lateral forces and moments of asymmetric headgears by variable outer bow lengths. materials and methods : four 3d finite element method (fem) models of a cer- vical headgear attached to the maxillary first molars were designed in solidworks2010 software and transferred to ansys workbench ver. 11 software. modelscontained the first molars, thei...

OBJECTIVE T-stage is an imperfect prognostic indicator for patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma. We evaluated the effect of extent of intracranial involvement on survival after conventional radiotherapy in patients with Stage T4 nasopharyngeal carcinoma. METHODS We conducted a retrospective analysis of the results of computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and treatment outcomes in ...

Primary non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with unilateral proptosis and diffuse involvement of the cra-nial vault and brain parenchyma is extremely rare. A 50-year-old woman developed a progressively increasing proptosis of her right eye, associated with a subcutaneous mass over the right frontotemporal region over the last 5 months. CT scan showed a high-density contrast-enhancing lesion with wide involv...

We reviewed the clinical, electrophysiological, radiological, and histopathological findings in 25 patients with benign focal amyotrophy. There were 14 patients with upper limb type and 11 with lower limb type. 18 patients had unilateral involvement and 7 had bilateral involvement asymmetrically. The characteristics clinical features were sporadic occurrence, predominance in young males, nonpro...

Twenty eight rabbits were trained to discriminate striated patterns of different orientation, first binocularly, than with each eye separately. There was no evidence of systematic dominance of either the left or the right hemisphere.

OBJECTIVE To clinically analyze 400 cases of red eye attending Nepal Eye Hospital in August/ September 2003 and to study the aetiology of the disease on the clinical basis with available laboratory resources. MATERIALS AND METHODS It is a prospective study of 400 cases of acute conjunctivitis visiting Nepal Eye Hospital during the epidemic of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis in August/Septem...

Hydatidosis is endemic in Iran. We studied hydatid cyst pattern in children, compared it with adults and present our experience. In 40 children, 76 cyst were found. There were multiple large lung cysts unilateral or bilateral in children. In the liver, the chief complaint was abdominal pain and in the lung it was chest pain and asthma-like symptoms. Lung cysts were operated first and liver cyst...

PURPOSE To study the association of ARMS2 A69S genotype with the development of exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in the unaffected fellow eye and to estimate the duration until the development of AMD in the second eye. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 326 patients who had exudative AMD in at least 1 eye, genotyping of ARMS2 A69S, and a m...

Introduction: Tessier facial cleft is among the rarest facial clefts reported in literatures and there are many issues arguing about its multidisciplinary repairing techniques. Tessier number 4 and 5 are extremely rare facial anomalies. There are few literatures describing these clefts and their surgical modalities. Number 5 Tessier cleft begins medial to oral commissure in the upper lip and ex...