BACKGROUND Most women are diagnosed with breast cancer (BC) when they are still at the appropriate age for employment. The increasing survival rates of patients with BC call for more attention to their ability to return to work. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to identify factors related to the return to work in Iranian women underwent BC treatment. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 175 ...

Background: Gastrointestinal (GI) tract is the most common site for extranodal lymphoma. The primary GI lymphoma pattern in Iran different from western countries and has been changed during past 40 years. Objectives: This study was done to determine clinical pathological characteristics of Tehran, Hamedan, Mashhad regions Iran. Methods: In this cross-sectional comparative-descriptive study, 200...

BACKGROUND Tobacco consumption is the second major cause of death and the fourth most common risk factor for diseases, worldwide. Epidemiologic studies have traced the use of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit substances among medical students and physicians. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to investigate the prevalence of cigarette smoking and the related factors among the students of medical ...

INTRODUCTION Toxic mushrooms are distributed across the globe with over 5000 species. Among them, 100 species are responsible for most of the cases of mushroom poisoning. This study aimed to evaluate the epidemiologic pattern of mushroom poisoning among patients referred to the main toxicology center of Mashhad province located in North-east of Iran. METHOD This cross-sectional study was cond...

Objective: The aim of this study was to report common presentations of Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) and the early outcome of different treatment methods in two tertiary hospitals in Iran. Subjects and Methods: This case series study was performed on 21 patients (mean age: 42 8 13.09 years; 11 male, 52.4%, and 10 female, 47.6%) admitted for treatment of BCS in two tertiary referral centers in Mash...

Depth image based rendering techniques for multiview applications have been recently introduced for efficient view generation at arbitrary camera positions. Encoding rate control has thus to consider both texture and depth data. Due to different structures of depth and texture images and their different roles on the rendered views, distributing the available bit budget between them however requ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to investigate the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents in five provinces of Iran: Tehran, Shiraz, Isfahan, Tabriz and Mashhad. METHOD In the present study, we selected 9,636 children and adolescents aged 6-18 years through multistage cluster random sampling method from Tehran, Shiraz, Isfahan, Tabriz and Mashhad. We inst...

Research Center of Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization, Khorasan-e Razavi Blood Center, Mashhad, Iran. Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia. Biomedical Department, Women Research Center, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran. Department of Communication and Network, Faculty of Computer Sciences and Information Techno...

We report Toxoplasma IgG seroprevalence of 34.4% among 419 pregnant women in Mashhad, northeast Iran. Soil contact, living in rural environment, and level of education were associated with infection. The prevalence did not increase with age, suggesting high infection rate during childhood and adolescence.