The aims of this retrospective study were to evaluate the efficacy of different steroid formulations (depot vs oral) and if the continuous administration of steroids throughout and beyond a CHOP protocol might improve the survival time and rate of cats with mediastinal lymphoma. The medical records of client-owned cats diagnosed with mediastinal lymphoma were reviewed at two veterinary referral...

background: foregut duplication cysts associated with vertebral anomalies are referred to as neurenteric cyst. about 30 cases have been reported in the literature so far. posterior mediastinal neurenteric cysts are very rare and a few studies could be found in the literature even after extensive search. because of rarity we are prompted to present 7 cases of posterior mediastinal neurenteric cy...

objective(s): this study aimed to evaluate the role of pretreatment suvmax and volumetric fdg positron emission tomography (pet) parameters in the differentiation between benign and malignant mediastinal tumors. in addition, we investigated whether pretreatment suvmax and volumetric fdg-pet parameters could distinguish thymomas from thymic carcinomas, and low-risk from high-risk thymomas.method...

introduction: thyroid gland is well known to resist infections by rich blood supply and lymphatic drainage,   high glandular content of iodine which can be bactericidal and separation of the gland from other structures of neck. primary thyroid abscess resulting from acute suppurative thyroiditis (ast) is an unusual type of head and neck infection and it is a rare condotion in children so that p...

purpose: to report a case of endogenous klebsiella endophthalmitis associated with liver abscess in iran. case report: a 79 year old man was referred with chief complaint of left eye pain and visual loss. the patient had conjunctival hyperemia, corneal edema, hypopyon and severe vitreous cellular reaction in the left eye and yellowish conjunctival discoloration which was apparent in the right e...

to retrospectively evaluate the treated cases with odontogenic abscess and identify the outcome of odontogenic infections, their characteristics and treatment modalities.this retrospective study was performed by collecting data from 310 patient records at the oral and maxillofacial surgery department of taleghani hospital, tehran, iran from january 2001 to january 2011. the variables were age, ...

mediastinal teratomas are usually asymptomatic tumors, located most commonly in the anterior mediastinum. very rarely, such tumors may rupture into the tracheobronchial tree, lung, pleura or pericardium. computed tomography (ct) is helpful in the diagnosis and differentiation of ruptured and unruptured tumors. we report a case of ruptured anterior mediastinal teratoma in a 20-year-old female pr...