Calcifying odontogenic cyst (COC), Central odontogenic fibroma (COF) and aggressive central giant cell granuloma (CGCG) are rare pathologic diseases affecting the jaws. While the Co-existence of two of them is reported in the literature, existence of all three conditions in one patient is an extremely rare entity. In the present report, initial biopsy revealed fibrosarcoma, therefore mandibular...

The observation of koilocyte-like features in the squamous epithelium of some endometrial adenoacanthomas prompted an investigation into a possible viral aetiology. These changes closely resemble those that occur in the ectocervical mucosa which are accepted as morphological evidence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. Sections of 87 hysterectomy specimens removed for endometrial carcinoma...

Pleural aspergillosis occurs mostly in established cases of pleural empyema with a broncho-pleural fistula. Ten such patients are reported here: in all, Aspergillus fumigatus infection was related to tuberculosis. In three cases with an active, sputum-positive tuberculous process the pleural empyema was a complication of spontaneous pneumothorax in two, and of lung resection in one. In two case...

OBJECTIVE The aim is to find the common causes of chronic diarrhea in our hospital, and to find out the most useful methods for diagnosis. METHODS This study was carried out in the medical ward at Al-Yarmouk Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq, during the period January 1999 through to August 2000. Fifty inpatients with diarrhea for 4 weeks or more were evaluated by history, physical examination...

background: this study was proposed to monitor the situation of asymptomatic malaria among the native population and afghani and pakistani immigrants in kahnooj and ghale-ganj districts from kerman province, southeastern iran. methods: a number of 180 and 120 individuals from kahnooj and ghale-ganj respectively were registered and considered based on a cross-sectional surveillance method. from ...

The human and animal population are exposed to several xenobiotics. One of them is cadmium, that may contaminate food, water and air. Fifty adult albino rats of both sex were divided into 5 equal groups to evaluate the adverse effects of cadmium chloride (CdCl2) on the kidneys, liver and thyroid gland and to evaluate the protective role of vitamin C. Gp.(1) was the control, Gps. (2,3,4) served ...

Specimens of the nematode genus Rhabdochona Railliet, 1916 (Rhabdochonidae) were collected during helminthological examination of four species of cyprinid fishes in two rivers of the Amur River basin in the Russian Far East (Primorsky Region) in June 2011. Detailed light microscopical (LM) and scanning electron microscopical (SEM) examinations (the latter used for the first time for the reporte...

OBJECTIVES There were mainly two objectives of the study. One was to detect bacteriuria in school going children in Pokhara valley and the other was to identify the causative organisms in various age groups in children. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was carried out in the Microbiology laboratory of The School of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, Simalchaur, Pokhara University, Nepal....