breast cancer affects iranian women at least one decade younger than their counterparts in othercountries and the incidence of breast fibroadenoma is growing in the last two decades in tehran. thisstudy aimed to compare the ahr levels in premenopausal breast cancer and breast fibroadnemo withappropriate normal groups. possible associations of ahr with lifestyle and reproductive risk factorsand ...

peripheral calcifying cystic odontogenic tumor (pccot) is a rare odontogenic lesion, which represents about 1% of jaw cysts. here we report clinicopathologic, radiographic and ct scan images of a new case of recurrent large pccot located in mandibular gingiva in a 77-year-old male with history of a nodular mass in the same area, which had been completely excised 3 years ago. in reviewing the li...

background: an effective method for management of large and bulky malignant tumors. this treatment modality is also known as specially fractionated radiation therapy (sfrt). in this treatment technique a grid block converted the open radiation field into a series of pencil beams. dosimetric characteristics of an external beam grid radiation field have been investigated using experimental and mo...

ameloblastomas are slow growing, locally invasive, benign odontogenic tumors of an epithelial origin, accounting for approximately 1% of all oral tumors. a 40-year-old man presented with a chief complaint of a swelling over the left side of his face of 4 years’ duration. on examination, gross facial asymmetry was detected, and a well-defined swelling was noted intraorally involving the left max...

purpose : retinoblastoma (rb) is a relatively common childhood tumor. in this report we discuss the clinical characteristics, treatments and outcome of the treated rb patients from a referral center in iran in order to understand this medical problem in our society. methods : a retrospective study was carried out on rb cases treated in farabi eye hospital since 1979 to 2007. the variables analy...

this study is a survey type of work on the plant tumors and their characteristics in genera1; special attention is given to those tumors which are caused by grobacterium tumefactions and also by plant hormones. the type of work and the methods are very much similar to the work of other investigators, but attempt was made to compare the results which are obtained upon the local varieties of a la...

background: in cancers of prostate, breast, oropharynx, lung, hypopharynx and skin, human tissue kallikreins has been demonstrated as a main role in these problems. there are many research works in which some human tissue kallikreins are expressed in salivary glands. in the present study, the main goal was to determine expression of human tissue kallikreins 4, 8, 10, 11 and 13 in pleomorphic ad...

background: phyllodes tumor (pt) of the breast in hispanic patients is more frequently reported with large tumors and with more borderline/malignant subtypes compared with other populations. the objective of this study was to describe characteristics of patients with pt and to identify differences among subtypes in a mexican population.  methods: a retrospective study was conducted on patients ...

To determine the effect of plasma growth hormone (GH) on skeletal muscle function, we measured the free Ca2+concentration-tension relationship of slow-twitch (soleus) and fast-twitch (peroneus longus) muscles isolated from rats undergoing acromegaly in response to implanted, GH-secreting tumors. Muscles from adult (9 mo) and aged rats (24 mo) were studied after the tumor-bearing rats weighed ov...

Brain tumors arising in the neonatal period are rare and diagnosis is usually delayed. We encountered a case of choroid plexus papilloma (CPP) in a term newborn infant. The sonographic findings of this case demonstrated a striking similarity to intraventricular hemorrhage, an entity commonly seen in premature infants. A preoperative diagnosis was made, however, with the application of the pulse...