background and objectives: gastrointestinal polyps are proliferative or neoplastic mucosal lesions. the most important point about these polyps is risk of malignancy of them. this study was performed to determine type and frequency of polyps of gastrointestinal tract in iranian population according to their locations. materials and methods: totally, 210 patients referred to rasul-e-akram hospi...

Background and Objectives: Gastrointestinal polyps are proliferative or neoplastic mucosal lesions. The most important point about these polyps is risk of malignancy of them. This study was performed to determine type and frequency of polyps of gastrointestinal tract in Iranian population according to their locations. Materials and Methods: Totally, 210 patients referred to Rasul-e-Akram Hospi...

aim :  the aim of this study was to present the demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with gastric polypoid lesions and to study the histopathologic features of these lesions. background : the frequency of gastric polyps is gradually increasing due to the widespread use of endoscopic examinations. patients and methods : clinical and endoscopic features of 100 gastric polyposis pa...

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OBJECTIVES To achieve long-term closure of nasal septal perforations and to describe our surgical technique for repairing septal defects. METHODS We describe 11 patients who underwent endoscopic repair of anterior septal perforations with a unilateral septal flap pedicled by the anterior ethmoidal artery. The patients were followed up for a period of 12 to 132 months (median follow-up, 51 mon...

Nasal polyposis is an invalidating disease which develops through chronic inflammation which leads to tissue oedema and eventually polyps. Treatment is aimed at eliminating polyps, resolving rhinitis symptoms, re-establishing nasal breathing and olfaction and preventing recurrence. The pathogenesis can be explained, in part, by degranulation of mast cells and release of mediators attracting eos...

A 24-year-old man presented with a palpable mass in the deep superonasal quadrant of the left orbit which had been present for one year. He had no visual complaints, yet noted multiple hard masses at the right and left mandibular angles. The patient had history of a similar mass in his right orbit which had prompted surgical intervention 2 years earlier. Histopathological evaluation of the righ...