ganglioneuroma is a very rare cause of chronic diarrhea in children. this benign tumor usually presents with diarrhea and failure to thrive. it is necessary for physicians to be familiar with this rare cause of chronic diarrhea. here we present and discuss such a case.

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the present report discusses disseminated fusariosis in a 15 year old boy with chronic granulomatous disease (cgd). he was admitted to the hazrat rasool acram hospital in november 1995, with a chronic wound in the right ankle and buttock area. antibacterial therapy was started, but there was no response. the patient was still febrile. chest x-ray revealed parahilar lesions in both lungs. tissue...

conclusions the current study revealed that a significant percentage of sandwich generation females have chronic diseases. results a statistically significant difference was found between the two groups in terms of the presence of chronic diseases (p = 0.001). there was a significant correlation between chronic diseases and number of children (p = 0.03), person receiving care (p = 0.004), educa...

in chronic granulomatous disease (cgd) patients, esophageal stricture is a rare complication and the treatment of choice is still controversial. there are few reports of successful therapy with antibiotics, corticosteroids, multiple balloon dilatations or their combination. we report a 3-three-year-old iranian boy with recurrent esophageal obstruction due to cgd. the patient transiently respond...

Meeting the complex needs of patients with chronic illness or impairment is the single greatest challenge facing organized medical practice. Usual care is not doing the job; dozens of surveys and audits have revealed that sizable proportions of chronically ill patients are not receiving effective therapy, have poor disease control, and are unhappy with their care (1). Results of randomized tria...

chronic liver diseases in children is the result of many different diseases including: metabolic, genetic, infectious, toxic and idiopathic causes. this was a case series study on 133 infants and children with age range 6 month to 12 years old, who presented clinically with manifestation of chronic liver disease and were admitted to children hospital medical center from year 1999 to 2000. in th...