The author describes the case of a three-year-old girl presenting with firm, painless retroauricular swelling finally diagnosed as deep granuloma annulare.

background: tubo-ovarian abscess as a serious complication of pelvic inflammatory disease is very uncommon in sexually inactive girls. case: we report a case of tubo-ovarian abscess in a 24-year-old sexually inactive girl with transverse vaginal septum who was presented with abdominal pain and a pelvic mass and without prior surgical history and no evidences of appendicitis, inflammatory bowel ...

  Background Dyslexia refers to children's disorder in reading. The most psychologists consider dyslexia merely as a sign of a special disorder in the process of reading instruction which is an important factor to lower the confidence of these children. We aimed to investigate the relationship between attachment styles and parenting styles with self-esteem in elementary dyslexic girl students. ...

To the Editor: Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) can cause severe hemorrhagic colitis characterized by gastrointestinal symptoms and bloody diarrhea as well as hemolytic uremic syndrome (1). Cattle and small ruminants are the major natural reservoir of these foodborne pathogens (1,2). Human infections may also develop after direct contact with cows, goats, sheep, and deer (1). Although ...

In this article Pendred's syndrome, which is the combination of - congenital goitre with deafmutism, is discussed. This type of goitre is due to a special enzymatic defect, involving  a process of hormonogenesis, which is respon-· sible for the incorporation of iodide in the tyrosine molecule.  A case of pendred's syndrome is presented  in a 16-year-old girl. This girl has never been able to...