background: neurobrucellosis is a rare complication of brucellosis. acute meningitis and encephalitis are the most common clinical manifestations; however, symptoms of these two conditions may be subacute and diagnosis requires a high index of suspicion in patients from endemic areas. diagnosis is often based on neurological symptoms, serology, and suggestive brain imaging because cerebrospinal...

neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid tumor in childhood. in different classification of neuroblastomas, a subset of undifferentiated or poorly differentiated tumors with bizarre histological features has been mentioned. a 3-year-old girl presented with abdominal pain. her haematological and biochemical parameters were normal except her urinary vanelylmandelic acid level was elevat...

congenital or neonatal rhabdomyosarcoma is a rare entity, usually presenting as masses in the head and neck region as well as genitourinary tract. the embryonal variant is the most common type occurring in infancy. this is a case of congenital rhabdomyosarcoma with a huge forearm mass, with metastatic discrete nodules in the soft tissues of the neck and scapular region, resembling a ‘blueberry ...

in 1991, handlers and colleagues described the central odontogenic fibroma (cof) as a distinct entity which is a rare benign odontogenic tumour and up to the present, only 78 cases of it have been published. cof usually occurs in an adult patient and has a predilection for the anterior region of the jaws. a 2.8:1 female to mail ratio is typically noted. this article presents a case of cof in a ...

introduction the glandular odontogenic cyst (goc) is a rare, locally aggressive and potentially recurrent cyst of jaws which lead in diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. since 1992, 111 cases of goc have been reported, with 0.2% incidence among odontogenic cysts. conclusions glandular odontogenic cyst is an uncommon and relatively aggressive cyst with a high recurrence rate. clinical and radi...

conclusions prominent musculoskeletal complaints (especially back pain) accompanied by constitutional symptoms such as fever, malaise and weight loss may be consistent with brucellosis. introduction species of bacteria brucellosis, which can infect humans, are brucella abortus, b melitensis, b. suis and rarely b. canis. case presentation a 71-year-old woman with severe pain in the limbs, especi...

the endometrial stromal nodule is a benign tumor composed of differentiated endometrial stromal cells arranged as a well circumscribed nodule with smooth non-invasive margins. they are rare neoplasms, diagnosed in most instances by microscopy. although nodules are benign in nature, hysterectomy is the treatment of choice to enable evaluation of the tumor margins which are well demarcated in end...

objective: peganum harmala (p. harmala), “espand” in persian, has small seeds and has been used in traditional medicine as emmenagogue and an abortifacient. it has various pharmacological effects such as antifungal, antibacterial, hypothermic, anticancer, antinociceptive, and reversible monoamine oxidase inhibition. case details: this case was a 45 years old woman who ingested about 50 grams se...

wilms’ tumor is the most common abdominal tumor of childhood, and its cerebral metastasis is apparently very rare. the authors report an 18-month-old girl with wilms’ tumor and brain metastasis.

fusion is a rare occurrence in molar teeth. the purpose of this rare case presentation is to describe the nonsurgical endodontic treatment of maxillary molar. a 28-year-old patient was referred for endodontic treatment of her chronic apical abscess of right maxillary second molar. in the clinical examination, a sinus tract adjacent to involved tooth and a small crown of supernumerary tooth fuse...