Accepted 27 June 1996 A 50-year-old man presented with a three-week history of abdominal pain and constipation. For three days prior to presentation he complained of increasing colicky abdominal pain with distension, anorexia, nausea and vomiting. The constipation was not absolute and there was no rectal bleeding. For two weeks prior to his presentation he took oral flucloxacillin for an infect...

A 80-year-old man was regularly surveyed in our service since 1987 for a relapsing polychondritis and treated with Dapsone, 100 mg per day, with a good outcome on chondritis. During the follow-up, a prostate carcinoma was diagnosed in 1990 and treated with surgery and brachytherapy. An in situ bladder carcinoma was treated in 1997 with BCG therapy. Both carcinomas were regularly surveyed and re...

A subalgebra $B$ of a Lie algebra $L$ is called weak c-ideal if there subideal $C$ such that $L=B+C$ and $B\cap C\leq B_{L} $ where $B_{L}$ the largest ideal contained in $B.$ This analogous to concept weakly c-normal subgroups, which has been studied by number authors. We obtain some properties c-ideals use them give characterisations solvable supersolvable algebras. also note one-dimensional ...

background: normokalemic periodic paralysis is an autosomal dominant disorder involving the abnormal function of skeletal muscle’s voltage-gated alpha-subunits. it is characterized by paralysis attack of varying severity with concomitant normal serum potassium concentration. although normokalemic periodic paralysis is well established in the literature, but its cardiac manifestations are very r...

in this study the effect of nitric oxide synthesis inhibition on stress-induced gastric damage was evaluated in bile duel ligated, sham operated and unoperated rats. animals were injected intraperitoneally with ng-nitro-l-arginine methylester (l-name), 40 mglkg, l-argininc, 200 mg/kg or saline, 30 min before water-immersion stress. one hour after water immersion, the animals were killed and the...

Acquired reactive perforating collagenosis (ARPC) presents with a number of umbilicated papules and nodules with central keratotic plugs on the trunk and extremities. Histopathology shows necrobiotic basophilic collagen bundles running transversely through the epidermis. ARPC is seen in association with various systemic disorders, in particular uncontrolled diabetes mellitus or renal failure (1...

backgrounds normal or elevated values of serum alanine aminotransferase level (alt) vary in different studies mostly related to characteristics of reference population including age, gender, body mass index, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld), and metabolic syndrome prevalence. objectives to measure upper normal limit (unl) for serum alt in an apparently healthy iranian old population (wh...

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We have previously shown that enhanced antitumor cytotoxicity is generated when thymocytes from melphalan (L-phenylalanine mustard; L-PAM)-treated MOPC-315 tumor bearers, but not thymocytes from normal mice, are added to the immunization culture of syngeneic normal spleen cells and MOPC-315 tumor cells (Bartik et al., Cancer Res., 47: 4848-4855, 1987). Here we show that normal spleen cells prod...

POEMS syndrome is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome secondary to plasma cell dyscrasia. Osteosclerotic bone lesion is a characteristic change seen in POEMS syndrome, whereas pathological fracture is rare. Monoclonal l plasmacytoma may be the main pathological change responsible for bone lesions in patients with POEMS syndrome. In this study, we describe a patient who presented with a pathological ...