Background: The activity and toxicity of etoposide in women with recurrent ovarian cancer was evaluated in a case series of women with recurrent ovarian cancer who had measurable disease, Methods: All patients had plior platinum-based chemotherapy and developed progressive disease, Etoposide was given as 50mg/day for 21 days every 4 weeks until progression of disease or prohibitive toxicit...

Objective: The current study was performed to provide real-time bedside ultrasonography for emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and assess the advantages and disadvantages of its application in dealing with trauma patients in pre-hospital setting from their viewpoints.Methods: This semi-experimental study was conducted in Tehran, Iran. Twenty EMTs were selected purposefully and underwent...

objective: to evaluate the potential advantages of imipenem/cilastatin in control of fever in neutro-penic hsct recipients.patients and method: in this single-center study, 111 consecutive febrile episodes in 104 neutropenic hsct recipients with a mean age of 26 years were randomized to treatment either with imipenem/cilastatin 1 g, iv, q8h or cefepime (our standard regimen) 2 g, iv, q8h. if fe...

Let G be a Q4-free median graph on n vertices and m edges. Let k be the number of equivalence classes of Djoković-Winkler’s relation Θ and let h be the number of Q3’s in G. Then we prove that 2n −m − k + h = 2. We also characterize median grid graphs in several different ways, for instance, they are the grid graphs with m− n + 1 squares. To obtain these results we introduce the notion of square...

Introduction To define the clinical features, biochemical and histological findings and outcome of three forms of autoimmune hepatitis.   Materials and Methods In a cross sectional study between November 2001 to January 2008 in Tehran and Mashhad university of medical sciences, 61 children who diagnosed as AIH (40 girls and 21 boys) have been analyzed for their clinical, serological, and histol...