brain tumors in elderly are increasing as the number of people, who comprise the older population, does.about half of the patients with brain tumors appear to be over 60 years of age.in this review article, glioblastoma multiform, as the most common malignant tumor of the central nervous system in elderly is discussed in details of definition, prognosis, diagnosis, treatment and differential di...

background : the hand and wrist bones are infrequent sites for osteoid osteoma, and its diagnosis can be difficult. this paper reports 25 cases of osteoid osteoma in the hand and wrist.   methods : records of the 25 patients who had pathological conditions of osteoid osteoma of the hand and wrist were reviewed and analyzed.   results : twenty-five cases of osteoid osteoma of the hand and wrist ...

this article reviews the recently published data on the diagnosis of cancer with proteomics, including the major proteomics technologies and promising strategies for biomarker discovery and development.  most of the tumor markers are proteins that either numerically increase in response to the alteration of cancer conditions or are produced by cancer cells. however, they are natural compounds o...

purpose: we report an unusual case of trabecular carcinoid of the ovary with orbital involvement. methods: we encountered a 49-year-old woman with a complaint of bilateral proptosis. ocular examination revealed severe bilateral proptosis and signs of corneal exposure. orbital ct scan showed massive enlargement of extraocular muscles and optic nerve compression. the patient medical history showe...

chloroma or granulocytic sarcoma (gs) is a malignant neoplasm of myeloid lineage that occur in a variety of anatomic sites other than the bone marrow including soft tissue, bone, lymph node, nasal fossa, skin and sometime in the orbit. in the subconjunctiva it is rarely reported. a 4-year-old girl with a history of treated acute myelogenous leukemia was referred to farabi eye hospital, tehran, ...

background: leydig cell tumor is a rare form of testicular neoplasm which comprises 1-3% of all testicular tumors and only about 3% of these tumors are bilateral. a few leydig all tumor have been described in patients with klinefelter�s syndrome so far. case: the patient described in this case report was a 24 year-old man with chief complaint of infertility for one year. physical examination, s...

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a number of countries, including Australia, over the past decade. The adoption of a framework that focuses explicitly on inflation reflects the growing realization that the major contribution that monetary policy can make to economic growth and welfare in the long run is the maintenance of a low and stable inflation rate. Empirical evidence confirms the detrimental effects of higher inflation o...

When the book review Editor of [this journal] asked me to write a review on this book [1], I gladly accepted not because I'm a quantum physicist but I've been in the trenches of scientific studies of consciousness over the past nine years as a biophysicist and outsider unencumbered by academic conformity and orthodoxy. So, perhaps I have something useful to add to the existing reviews on this e...