purpose : to report a case of bilateral dense ring-shaped marginal keratitis after photorefractive keratectomy (prk) case report : a 44-year-old man developed bilateral dense ring-shaped marginal keratitis after prk. the patient had moderate to severe meibomian gland dysfunction preoperatively that was treated incompletely. he was treated with mild topical antibiotics, topical and systemic ster...

background: participation is mostly cultural and familial based, and there is not any assessment scales for evaluating kids' participation in iranian context, therefore the purpose of this study was developing children's participation assessment scale for iranian children.   methods: development of this scale occurred in two phases; phase i: planning: following reviewing the literature and adop...

diagnosing and assessing child abuse is a critical and difficult process in clinical psychology, because this phenomenon has several negative behavioral and psychological consequences on victims. the aim of this research is to create a scale for assessing child abuse and neglect. through a multiclustral sampling, 3042 secondary school students (boys and girls) were selected to fill (1) a list o...

background and purpose: azo dyes including direct blue 71 (db71) are toxic, mutagenic and carcinogenic contaminants in effluents of industries. this study aimed to investigate the adsorption of db71 from aqueous solution onto pistachio hull waste (phw) as a low-cost adsorbent. materials and methods: a series of experiments were performed via batch adsorption technique to examine the effect of t...

This teaching cases study describes the development and implementation of an enterprise reporting system in a major Australian law firm. The dominant view in professional practice is that business intelligence systems like the one reported in this case should be provided data by an enterprise data warehouse. The case is particularly interesting because the reporting system was not based on a da...

cystic hygroma is a well-recognized lesion in paediatric patients but it is very rare in adults. we report here a case of cervical cystic hygroma in a 45 yr old male. the reasons to present this case are 1) its rarity in adults 2) unusual age of presentation 3) simulates various benign and malignant lesions at this site 4) is a diagnostic challenge and 5) role of histology for definitive postop...

case reports are considered as the lowest level of evidence while at the same time they are frontiers of evidence collection. case reports are professional stories about novel medical events and will worth publication only if they possess complexity, proper data collection, justified diagnosis, and legitimate intervention as well as appropriate language, punctuation, and syntax. a case report m...