introduction: tracheal stenosis is normally caused by trauma, infection, benign and malignant tumors, prolonged intubation or tracheostomy. the best treatment for tracheal stenosis is resection and anastomosis of trachea. yet the major surgical complication of tracheal surgery is postoperative stenosis. the goal of this paper is to study the result of tracheal stenting as a replacement therapy ...

objective: to determine the epidemiological, clinical, laboratory characteristics as well as outcome of 411 patients with bowel obstruction in southern iran. methods: this was a cross-sectional study being performed in shahid faghihi hospital of shiraz between 2006 and 2012. we reviewed the medical charts of the 411 patients with initial diagnosis of bowel obstruction who were admitted to our c...

background deep vein thrombosis (dvt) is a well-recognized complication in patients with cancer. chemotherapy and cancer surgery increase the risk of dvt in these patients. there are a few reports about the prevalence of dvt in patients with cancer regarding different managing modalities. objectives this study aimed to assess the prevalence of dvt in patients with cancer, who were hospitalized ...

introduction: the preoperative diagnostic evaluation of the parotid lesion is a valuable aid in planning the operation and the approach to intervention. among different diagnostic tools, fine needle aspiration has a key role. however, the exact efficacy of this technique in our center had not been thoroughly investigated. materials and methods: between january 2000 and june 2007 a subset of 64 ...

background: tumor lysis syndrome (tls) is a major metabolic complication in patients with malignancy after initiation of chemotherapy or spontaneously without treatment. the role of rasburicase (a recombinant urate-oxidase enzyme) in prevention and treatment of tls has been demonstrated in recent years. we aimed to investigate the efficacy of a single dose of rasburicase in reducing the risk of...

introduction: different etiologies of pleural effusion are diagnosed based on serum and plural fluid characteristics. the aim of this study was to assess and compare the serum and pleural fluid protein to lactate dehyrogenase (pr/ldh) ratio in exudative pleural effusions. materials and methods: this study was conducted on 60 patients with exudative pleural effusion including: 20 cases with para...

background: in view of high prevalence of gi cancers in lorestan province, western iran, and a large number of esophageal cancer patients in this region, this study was done to determine the frequency of various gi cancers in the area. â  methods: in a cross-sectional study, all patients from lorestan province for whom endoscoppy and colonoscopy were performed and biopsy was provided entered ou...

a large number of simple or complex translocation involving the cml and aml chromosomal abnormalities has been described. this study was aimed to investigate the complex chromosome aberrations in the series of myeloid malignancies including cml and aml. the present report deals analyzed 187 consecutive with cml and aml patients, using methotrexate  cell synchronization and  un-stimulated cultur...

Renal transplantation is considered one of the best long-term therapies for chronic renal failure, but unfortunately the incidence of malignancy significantly increases in renal transplant recipients. We analyzed nine cases of malignancy in 200 renal transplant recipients occurring in a 12-year follow-up in Imam hospital of Tehran University, Tehran, Iran. According to this study, the organ...

metastatic survey of the patients with known primary malignancies with bone scan is one of the most common studies in nuclear medicine. unfortunately the conventional planar bone scan has a very low specificity for differentiating benign from malignant lesions especially in the spinal column. in this study, we compared the specificity of spect imaging and conventional planar bone scan. we studi...