back ground and objective:oral cancer is primarily a disease of epithelial origin. the tongue is the most common site of oral cancer. the aim of this study was to determine the frequency of tongue cancer and signs, symptoms, clinical features, and site of lesions in addition to factors affected this cancer.  materials methods and:twenty eight medical records of patients who admitted for tongue...

background self-esteem is a stable sense of personal worthiness. there is insufficient evidence from the available research to fully determine the relationship between self-esteem and early trauma. objectives this is a correlational study aims to investigate the relationship between early traumas as a predictor of negative self-esteem by controlling the effect of maladaptive schemas in 11-13 ye...

background: early detection of proneness to hypertension may help an individual to lead a healthy life by altering the life style. subjects having the predisposing factors of hypertension tend to show higher and prolonged responsiveness to blood pressure following stress. methods: normotensive, non-smoking healthy sedentary male students and staff of nepal medical college (n=50, age group 18-35...

background: coronary angiography is frequently applied for diagnostic purposes in patients with coronary artery disease. be that as it may, there is still no consensus about the optimal time for the ambulation of patients following femoral arterial puncture. we sought to compare 6 hours of complete bed rest and 2 hours of complete bed rest in patients after angiography. methods: this randomized...

introduction: newborn hearing screening leads to the early detection of hearing impairment. the aim of screening is to decrease or remove the effect of hearing impairment on development of speech and language by timely diagnosis and effective treatment. a number of risk factors lead to delayed start of decreased hearing ability including: 1. congenital infection with cytomegalovirus  (cmv) viru...

how to cite this article: najafi r, hashemipour m, mostofizadeh n, ghazavi mr, nasiri j, shahsanai a, famori f, najafi f, moafi m. demographic and clinical findings in pediatric patients affected by organic acidemia. iran j child neurol. spring 2016; 10(2): 74-81. abstract objective metabolic disorders, which involve many different organs, can be ascribed to enzyme deficiency or dysfunction and...

consanguinity has been a long-standing social habit among iranians. the effect of consanguinity on early death (stillbirth plus infant death) and pre-reproductive mortality (death before age 15 years) was studied in an ecological study in 10 provinces of iran (including, boosheher, chaharmahal-o-bakhtiari, east azarbaijan, ilam, fars, kashan, kerman, kermanshah, markazi, semnan, and yazd). the ...

With early detection of gastric cancer, mortality from gastric cancer has decreased. Endoscopists should be more suspicious about these lesions because these can be easily neglected. We reported a case which has endoscopic appearance of benign lesion but possessed malignant histological features. How to cite this article: Basyigit S, Aktas B, Küçükazman M, Simsek HD, Simsek GG, Kefeli A, Yeniov...

background and goal: burn is an irreparable event, which results in numerous physical, psychological, social, and economic complications. the burned patients should be merely treated in a professional burn center due to vast clinical range of these patients. since, a percentage of mortality in burned patients is for the patients’ transportation from other centers; this study has aimed to invest...

background: one of the important aspects of hospital preparedness in disasters is its rapid early warning system. in this study, the activation of early warning system was evaluated under the monitoring of disasters workgroup of the ministry of health based on the national program of “hospitals preparedness in disasters” in shahid motahari hospital.  materials and methods: the sample was compos...