results no borrelia dna was detected by pcr in skin lesions of patients with morphea. patients and methods sixty six patients with morphea were prospectively included in the present study. for each patient, formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue blocks of skin lesion biopsies were examined for borrelia spp. dna using pcr. objectives we aimed to find the frequency of borrelia in morphea lesion...

background and aims. reactive hyperplastic lesions of the oral connective tissue are associated with injuries of soft tissue and have high prevalence rates and different involvement patterns in different parts of the world. the aim of this study was to analyze demographic data of a university department. materials and methods. patient records of the department of oral pathology during a four-ye...

background: the clinical and pathological evaluation of oral lesions are very important in this field. the purpose of this study was to assess clinico- pathological agreement on 232 cases with oral lesion s.methods: the consecutive files of 232 patients with oral lesions from pathological laboratory archives of babol dental faculty and shahid beheshti hospital were reviewed and the data include...

BACKGROUND To explore the diagnostic method in assessing the malignancy of pulmonary adenocarcinoma characterized by ground glass opacities (GGO) on computed tomography (CT). METHODS Preoperative CT data for preinvasive and invasive lung adenocarcinomas were analyzed retrospectively. GGO lesions that were detected on lung windows but absent using the mediastinal window were subject to adjustm...

abstract : inflammatory external root resorption (ierr) is a pathological phenomenon of microbial origin. this stu dy reports a case of external apical inflammatory root resorption of maxillary incisors associated with periradicular lesions in a 22 year old female, which was successfully treated by one-visit root canal therapy (rct). radiographic investigation revealed periapical radiolucencies...

abstract urinary retention, a rare childhood problem which is most commonly caused by urinary tract infection. however, neurological neoplasm must also be considered in differential diagnosis. we report here a 3 year old girlthat was referred to the pediatrics department of kashan university of medical sciences (kaums) with a history of urinary retention for 10 days. by insertion of a foley cat...

background & importance: disc herniation is defined as the prolapsed of material disc into the spinal canal. if the disc fragment is free in spinal canal, it is called sequestration disc fragment. occasionally, alteration in sequestration disc fragment makes the diagnosis of the disc herniation, challenging. case presentation: we reviewed a rare case of the cervical sequestrated disc herniation...

the objectives of the present study were to investigate the prevalence of histologic thyroids lesions and the respective thyroid hormones changes of ewes in an endemic goiter region and to find out any impact of this condition on the fetal thyroid structures and serum thyroid hormones. in the present study a total number of 100 pregnant ewes and their fetuses slaughtered at slaughterhouse were ...