carotid body tumors (cbts) are rare, slow-growing tumors that should be considered in evaluating every lateral neck mass. this single center study was performed to define demographic features, clinical characteristics and remedies of iranian patients with cbt. a retrospective review of prospectively collected data was done on 45 patients with 50 cbts who have been referred to sina hospital, teh...

background tuberculosis (tb) is a globally significant cause of morbidity and mortality in children. few data on tuberculosis in children and adolescents are available in iran. objectives the current study aimed to describe the case characteristics and clinical-epidemiological aspects of children and adolescents with tb. methods a retrospective review was undertaken on 203 patients aged less th...

background and purpose: tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that is commonly caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis. as kurdistan province is close to iraq (risky due to political instability in recent years), the bane city had high interaction with iraq, so the aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of tuberculosis in bane (kurdistan) between 2003 and 2010. materials and methods: thi...

BACKGROUND Breast augmentation is the most frequent procedure performed according to the 2009 Quick Facts report of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. This study presents the periareolar extra-glandular breast augmentation. METHODS From 2004 to 2010 among 32 female patients, peri-areolar incision was performed for breast augmentation. Dissection was performed in subcutaneous plane tow...

abstract   background: the tibial diaphyseal fractures are the most common type of long bone fractures encountered by most orthopedic surgeons. in accordance with descriptive indices of tibia fractures on the basis of their location in the bone, distal tibia fractures have the second incidence of all tibia fractures after the middle tibia fractures. the purpose of the study was to assess the co...

background : ulcerative colitis an inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) and chronically idiopathic immune related that associates with extraintestinal manifestations such as arthritis. despite of the highly specificity ofanti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (ccp) antibodies for rheumatoid arthritis, their role in ibd remains unclear . there are only a few studies on the prevalence of anti-ccp antibodi...

objective: the aim of this study is to further compare the efficacy of pge2 suppository, the intracervical foley catheter and extra-amniotic saline infusion in nulliparous women referred for labor induction. materials and methods: totally 368 nulliparous women with a bishop score ≤ 4 with singleton gestation, vertex presentation and intact membrane referred for labor induction were randomly ass...