conclusions anesthetic management for ire of soft tissue deviates from standard anesthetic medical therapy in regards to depth of neuromuscular blockade and analgesic management during ire energy delivery. however, minor modifications in anesthesia management allow for a safe and efficient patient procedure. results during ire delivery, a deeper neuromuscular blockade is required to ensure that...

abstract carcinoid tumors are well differentiated neuroendocrine tumors with secretory components. these tumors are uncommon but the most common primary tumors of the distal small intestine. we present a rare terminal ileum carcinoid tumor presenting with a small bowel obstruction. a 65 years old man presented with intermittent, gen-eralized, dull and colicky abdominal pain accompanied with int...

cytomegalovirus (cmv) is a widespread pathogen that is found in milk, saliva, urine, cervical secretions, and semen fluid. it is supposed that cmv is a risk factor for breast cancer. the aim of this study was to determine the frequency of cmv among benign and malignant breast tumors. paraffin embedded breast carcinoma (n=24) and fibroadenoma (n=24) samples were collected from toos and firoozgar...

purpose: to report an extremely rare presentation of isolated orbital xanthogranuloma with no systemic disease, nor dermatologic manifestation. case report: the patient was a 45-year-old man complaining of a mass lesion in the superior and inferior eyelids of his right eye; the lesions had been enlarging slowly and painlessly since 5 years before. other examinations (including skin, heart, etc....

abstract objective tumors of the central nervous system constitute the largest group of solid neoplasms in children and are second only to leukemia in their overall frequency during childhood. the main purpose of the present study is to determine the incidence, age, sex, location and histological diagnosis of cns tumors in children, less than 15 years of age, in the mofid children's hospital, i...

intracranial hemangiopericytomas (hpc) are rare vascular tumors. they account for 0.4% of primary central nervous system tumors. hpc is more commonly located supratentorially and tends to occur in a younger age group, with average age at presentation of 38–42 years. the tumor was found throughout the entire cns, usually superficially and closely related to the meninges. moreover, they have a st...

background and aim: the inferior alveolar canal must be constantly examined as an important anatomical landmark in the study of lower jaw, particularly posterior body and mandibular ramus sites, in dental and surgical procedures. in the present study, the effect of two pathological lesions, ameloblastomas and keratocystic odontogenic tumour, on canal displacement were investigated. materials an...

background. the aim of this study was to investigate myofibroblast (mf) density in a broad spectrum of odontogenic cysts and tumors and the relation between the density of mfs and the clinical behavior of these lesions. methods. a total of 105 cases of odontogenic lesions, including unicystic ameloblastoma (uam), solid ameloblastoma (sa), odontogenic keratocyst (okc), dentigerous cyst (dc), rad...

we have studied the patients who had a neck mass on presentation in five medical centers of tehran univ. of medical sciences (infectious disease department, ent department, dentistry faculty, cancer institute) during a period of 14 months. sixty patients, 20 women and 40 men, were eligible for our study. all patients underwent clinical and paraclinical work up and finally had histologic diagnos...

introduction: solitary fibrous tumor is a rare, mesenchymal neoplasm that has been reported in numerous sites. occurrence in the parotid gland is exceedingly rare.   case report: a 53-year-old man with a 2 cm solitary fibrous tumor of the left parotid gland, that was observed clinically and operatively and thought to be a neoplasm arising from stensen's duct, is described. a pre-operative ...