abstract background numerous disorders can cause recurrent abdominal pain. many of these cases underwent endoscopy and clinician encounters patients with history of recurrent abdominal pain and normal endoscopy. we evaluated these biopsies with regard to their eosinophils and mast cell densities to find out a potential relationship between recurrent abdominal pain with eosinophils and mast cell...

background a significant proportion of individuals undergoing cholecystectomy for symptomatic cholelithiasis persist with symptoms even after surgery. objectives this study was aimed to test our hypothesis that age of presentation and duration of symptoms are the risk factors that predispose to negative symptomatic outcome after cholecystectomy. patients and methods 351 patients with diagnosis ...

background & objective: abdominal cutaneous and subcutaneous nodules are uncommon lesions which may be benign or malignant. majority of the malignant nodules are metastatic in origin and may be the initial presentation of primary malignancy, hence an early diagnosis is important. our aim was to find out the spectrum of lesions (both non-neoplastic and neoplastic) that present as cutaneous a...

conclusions atypical chickenpox infections should be suspected in any patient who presents unexplained abdominal pain, fever, and dyspnea, even if cutaneous lesions are minimal. an early diagnosis can prevent a fatal outcome. introduction infection with varicella-zoster virus (vzv) in healthy adults tends to be more severe. antiviral medication (often prescribed for adults), is effective in red...

abdominal masses in neonatal period is one of the main causes of patients bed ridden in infantal surgery wards. the rapid encounterance with these patients has caused a decrease in mortality and morbidity. this study is a kind of historical research which has been conducted on data base management systems of two above mentioned hospitals between years 1361-1378. the final outcome was only 25 ca...

abstract fat necrosis secondary to pancreatitis can be either mild and self limited or create severe organ damage, but may rarely lead to abdominal opancreatic pseudotumor. we report a case of fat necrosis secondary to pancreatitis which clinically simulates transverse colon cancer.

conclusions following training, ed residents can perform fast with high accuracy and specificity, similar to rr residents, in patients with blunt abdominal trauma. results the ers had reported abdominal free fluid in 20 (6.9%) patients while rrs performing fast had positive results in 22 (7.6%) patients. the reports of fasts revealed significant correlation between the two resident groups (p < ...

conclusions open gastrostomy was successfully performed under subcostal tap block with small dose fentanyl supplementation. the subcostal tap block is considered a useful anesthetic choice in surgery for high risk patients. introduction many papers have reported that tap block provides effective postoperative analgesia, but the sole use of tap block for surgical anesthesia has been rarely repor...

actinomycosis can involve all parts of the urogenital system. urachal actinomycosis rarely reported and was mistaken with urachal adenocarcinoma. we report a case of urachal actinomycosis that presented with abdominal pain and underwent laparotomy with the diagnosis of urachal malignancy pathology reviewed the diagnosis of urachal actinomycosis. patient had no problem in two years follow up.

linguatula serrata (l. serrata), an aberrant arthropod of the pentastomida phylum, inhabits the canine respiratory system as its final host. intermediate hosts include humans and herbivores. humans can be infected via consumption of raw or under-cooked liver or lymph nodes of sheep, goats, and cattle. a few human cases have been reported from iran. here, we have reported a case of pentastomiasi...