major salivary gland tumors are uncommon and the exact nature of these tumors is not obvious. this study was carried out to compare the histological results of intraoperative frozen sections against those of permanent reports for major salivary glands masses. one hundred thirty-nine patients with major salivary gland masses who were candidates for surgery underwent an intraoperative frozen sect...

in an attempt to determine the diagnostic value of fna biopsy of head and neck masses, we reviewed fnas performed on target lesions of the head and neck in1 59 patients who subsequently underwent surgery in khalili hospital dur-. ing a 55 month period. results offnas were compared with postsurgical histologic diagnoses. these 159 cases were broken down into four categories: thyroid masses 34 , ...

 Abstract Background: Clinical Risk Index of Babies (CRIB), Score for Neonatal Acute Physiology (SNAP), an update of the Clinical Risk Index for Babies score (CRIB II) and Score for Neonatal Acute Physiology - Perinatal Extension (SNAP-PE) are scoring devices developed in neonatal intensive care units. This study reviewed these scoring systems in critically ill neonates to determine how well th...

background: this study was conducted to assess the validity and reliability of ankle?brachial index (abi) by oscillometric blood pressure (bp) measurement as compared with an automated abi as a gold standard. materials and methods: this study was conducted at golden jubilee medical center, thailand. all the data were collected from 303 patients at risk of peripheral arterial disease (pad) who w...

background: this prospective study was conducted to evaluate and compare the efficacies of nasopharyngoscopy and ct scan in the diagnosis of local failure of external beam radiotherapy (ebrt) for nasopharyngeal carcinoma. methods: total 52 patients of histopathologically proven nasopharyngeal carcinoma treated with external beam radiotherapy (ebrt), were included in this study. for every patien...

tropical fasciolosis caused by infection with fasciola gigantica is regarded as one of the most important single helminthes infections of ruminants in asia and africa. fasciolosis diagnosis, due to low sensitivity of coprological diagnostic method has been challenging for a long period. to evaluate the usefulness of elisa for diagnosis of anti – fasciola gigantica antibodies in parasitized shee...

Background: Blind percutaneous pleural biopsy has traditionally been performed to investigate the etiology of exudative pleural effusion in which the initial thoracocentesis has been non- diagnostic. In view of the increasing use of image-guided and thoracoscopic pleural biopsies, this study examined the role of blind Abrams pleural biopsy in the investigation of the exudative pleural effusion ...