This study aimed to investigate the risk factors influencing the prognosis of patients receiving conventional fractionation radiotherapy. A retrospective analysis of clinical data from 100 patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma receiving radiotherapy was conducted. The Chi-square test was used to screen the relevant factors and Cox multiple-factor analysis was used to investigate the risk facto...

Background & Objective: Endometrial carcinoma (EC) has been traditionally classified into two distinct categories of low-grade and high-grade. Type I (low grade) EC, which constitutes the majority of cases, is linked to estrogen-related molecular pathways. But type II (high-grade) EC accounts for 10-20% of cases and behaves in an aggressive way. Pathologic and biological featur...

background: several prognostic factors exist influencing the outcome of surgical discectomy in the patients with lumbar disc herniation (ldh). the aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between severity of preoperative impaired ankle reflex and outcomes of lumbar discectomy in the patients with l5-s1 ldh. methods: we retrospectively evaluated 181 patients (108 male and 73 female) who...

conclusions patients with normal exercise echocardiogram results regardless of ischemia or chest pain during the test had excellent outcomes over a one-year follow-up. objectives the aim of this cross sectional study was to assess the prognosis of patients with negative exercise echocardiographic results over a one-year period follow-up. patients and methods the outcomes of 336 patients who had...

how to cite this article: poudel p, chitlangia m, pokharel r. predictors of poor seizure control in children managed at a tertiary care hospital of eastern nepal iran j child neurol. summer 2016; 10(3):48-56.   abstract objective various factors have been claimed to predict outcome of afebrile seizures in children. this study was aimed to find out the predictors of poor seizure control in child...

how to cite this article: bazmamoun h, fayyazi a, khajeh a, sabzehei mk, khezrian f. a study of methadone-poisoned children referred to hamadan’s be’sat hospital iran. iran j child neurol. 2014 spring 8(2):34-37. objective increasing use of methadone in withdrawal programs has increased methadone poisoning in children. this research aimed to study the causes of incidence of poisoning in childre...

background :delay in diagnosis and treatment of acute appendicitis (aa) results in an increased rate of perforation, postoperative morbidity, mortality and hospital length of stay. several biochemical parameters including white blood cell (wbc) count, c-reactive protein (crp), interleukin-6 (il6) and procalcitonin (pct) have been used to further improve the clinical diagnosis of aa. the aim of ...

conclusions in the current study, the clinical and paraclinical signs of aflp were mostly - liver, coagulation, kidney, and hypoglycemia disorders. considering that patients mostly refer in three phases of clinical, laboratory, and complications, it is essential to evaluate the suspected ones who present clinical symptoms especially nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. patients and methods this...

background: we intended to investigate the serum magnesium impact upon the disability after ischemic stroke. methods: a total of 67 ischemic stroke patients who less than 6 hours had passed from their attacks participated in this cross sectional study. we have measured their serum magnesium level and determined its correlation with their rankin disability score (rds) in the first 72 hours (rds0...