Cardiovascular complications are a major source of morbidity and mortality in hypertensive patients. To assess the prevalence of anatomic and functional abnormalities of the heart in such patients, we studied 234 asymptomatic subjects with mild-to-moderate systemic hypertension by echocardiography. After adjusting the echocardiographic values for age and body surface area, we found abnormally i...

purpose : to evaluate the efficacy of autologous plasmin in pediatric vitrectomy and to report the anatomic outcomes of autologous plasmin assisted pediatric vitrectomy methods : in an interventional prospective study, thirty-four pediatric patients with vitreoretinal disorders who needed vitrectomy during 2008 to 2010, included in the study. the patients were divided into two groups: the retin...

Objective- The aim of this study was preparing detailed anatomic images of the thoracic cavity of the southern white-breasted hedgehog using the non-invasive computed tomography (CT) technique.Design- Descriptive study.Animals- Five southern white-breasted hedgehog (Erinaceus concolor) which is a species native to the Middle East, Anatolia, Transcaucasia, and Iran. Since some people...

purpose: surgeons performing an ilioinguinal exposure for acetabular fracture surgery need to be aware of aberrant findings such as inguinal hernias and spermatic cord lesions. the purpose of this study is to report these occurrences in a clinical series of adult males undergoing acetabular fracture fixation and a series of adult male cadavers. the secondary aim is to characterize these abnorma...

background and aims: congenital anomalies are as the major causes of stillbirths, neonatal death, disability and childhood health problems all over the world. the aim of this study was to determine the incidence and pattern of congenital anomalies in newborn during the first 24 hours of life in shahid-madani hospital, azarshahr, tabriz, during two periods 2002-2003 and 2012-2013 years. methods:...

a case with two simultaneous dens invaginations (dis) and one dens evagination (de) in a permanent maxillary lateral incisor is reported for the first time in a 21-year-old girl. de known as talon cusp of the anterior teeth is a rare entity and its co-existence with di has been reported scarcely in the literature. simultaneous occurrence of two dis with one de has not been reported elsewhere. u...

Although the histologic characteristics of cryofibrinogenemia have been described in skin lesions, the literature is largely devoid of descriptions of this disorder in other organs. This series is the first to document the histopathologic manifestations of intrapulmonary, intramuscular, and renal cryofibrinogenemia. We describe the histopathologic manifestations of cryofibrinogenemia in 10 case...

An azygos lobe is a rare anatomic variant of the lung which may be misdiagnosed as other pathological conditions. There dearth information on clinical characteristics children with lobe. This study aims to summarize features lobe, helpful improve recognition and care those patients. Clinical findings imaging were collected analyzed. In this study, 50 included. A total 28% cases found have incid...

the purpose of this study was to compare the anatomic and visual outcome of primary vitrectomy with scleral buckling in patients with retinal detachment following cataract surgery. fifty-six consecutive patients with retinal detachment after cataract surgery were randomly assigned to two treatment groups: standard scleral buckling and standard three-port deep vitrectomy. successful treatment wa...

An anatomic study was conducted on 49 dried cadaveric humeri and 24 dried cadaveric scapula to ascertain the variability of the following parameters: humeral neck angle, humeral head retroversion, humeral head medial offset, humeral head posterior offset, humeral head diameter glenoid height, glenoid width, and the glenoid height to width ratio. For verification purposes, the results of this st...