nosocomial infection is an important prognostic factor in out comes of burned patients. in this descriptive cross. sectional study, 82 burned patients and related medical equipment were assessed in zareh hospital in 2033-2004. pseudomonas aeruginosa and staphylococcus areus were found in 69(51.4%) and 31 (23.2%) of 134 clinical specimens respectively. hence it is mandatory to plan programs for ...

Gastric carcinoma is the most common cancer and the second most common cause of cancer-related death in Korea. Many studies have been reported regarding prognostic factors. Among the category I prognostic factors of gastric carcinoma, lymph node metastasis (nodal status) is considered to be the strongest prognostic factor. According to the current UICC (the International Union Against Cancer)/A...

The Lewis X (Le(X)) antigen is a prognostic marker in certain solid tumors and has been proposed as a therapeutic target. Immunohistochemical analyses were performed to retrospectively examine the prognostic impact of Le(X) expression in 158 patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Twenty-three (14.5%) patients were Le(X)-positive. Multivariate analysis showed that Le(X) positivity w...

background: qt dispersion (qtd) especially after ischemic heart disease and myocardial infarction is a prognostic predictor of mortality, in adult medicine.   objective: this study was undertaken to determine the correlation between qt dispersion and neonatal stress. neonates were divided into 3 groups: normal term (30 cases), normal preterm (30 cases) and sick neonates (36 cases), born between...

BACKGROUND Our aim was to grade MRI-detected skull-base invasion in nasopharyngeal carcinoma and evaluate the prognostic value of the grading. METHODS The MRI scans and medical records of 924 patients with histologically diagnosed nondisseminated nasopharyngeal carcinoma were reviewed retrospectively. RESULTS MRI-detected skull-base invasion was not found to be an independent prognostic fac...

results a low adc value was associated with lymph node metastasis (p < 0.01) and with high ki-67 protein levels (p = 0.03). there were no significant differences in the adc values among the histological grade (p = 0.48), molecular subtype (p = 0.51), tumor size (p = 0.46), and p53 protein level (p = 0.62). conclusion the pre-operative use of the 3.0 tesla dwi could provide information about the...

Rohrer's ponderal index in newborns (birth weight * 100/height3) has been used as an indicator of fetal growth status, especially to assess asymmetrical intrauterine growth retardation. Low ponderal index or disproportionate intrauterine growth retardation has higher neonatal morbidity and there are some specific guidelines in intrauterine growth retarded infants to control some of their pr...

Introduction: Galectin-3 is known as a biomarker in patients with heart failure. This protein participates in different mechanisms involved in atherosclerosis including inflammation and plaque formation. This study was conducted to investigate whether this factor could be a predictive biomarker for the severity of atherosclerosis. Materials and Methods: The study group consisted of 80 patients ...

Background: Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumor in children. The important factors in predicting survival are the extent of disease, proliferation index of the tumor cells, histopathologic class and the age at diagnosis. The percentage of Ki-67 positive cells reflects the proliferation  of the cells and is one of the critical factors which determine the growth of the tumor....