background: helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) infection is a major cause of chronic gastritis, especially in metabolic syndrome patients. the use of a accessible and easy diagnostic method, can speed up the treatment of this infection this study compared two methods of histology and serology for diagnosis of h. pylori in metabolic syndrome patients. methods : this study was done on 175 metabolic ...

background: nasal fracture is a common fracture due to trauma. gold standard method in diagnosis of nasal fracture is clinical examination and radiography is used in legal situation. recently, ultrasound is recommended as a noninvasive and simple method in diagnosis of nasal fracture. this study investigates the role of ultrasound in diagnosis of nasal fracture. methods: 126 cases with suspecte...

background: as delay in diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy is directly associated with increasing mortality, it studying the high sensitivity and specificity of transvaginal color doppler sonography as the most preferred imaging method with the most accurate and rapid diagnosis results seems to be necessary. therefore, this study aims to evaluate the diagnostic value of transvaginal color doppler s...

background and aims: considering difficulties in usual laboratory methods in detection of viral infections, improved dna-based diagnostic techniques are more reliable. loop mediated isothermal amplification method (lamp) is a nucleic acid amplification method that amplifies dna using six primers which has been developed to diagnose viruses as a rapid and high efficiency test. in this study, the...

800x600 normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: this study’s aim was to design and validate a semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire (ffq) for assessment of fruits and vegetables (fv) consumption in adults of isfahan by comparing the ffq with dietary reference method and blood plasma levels of beta-carotene, vitamin c, and retinol. methods: t...

introduction: medullary thyroid carcinoma (mtc) is a rare thyroid cancer secreting calcitonin (ct) which is the most sensitive and specific tumor marker for mtc. this type of thyroid cancer is able to metastasize to different body areas including regional lymph nodes, lungs, liver and bone. the aim of this study was to assess the sensitivity and specificity of [99mtc-dmsa (v)] whole body scan (...

conclusion considering the similar diagnostic efficacy of all voxel sizes, 300 µm voxel size can be used with adequate efficacy for detection of external root resorption defects with minimal patient radiation dose and the shortest scanning time. background selecting a voxel size that yields minimal radiation dose with no significant compromise of the diagnostic accuracy of cone beam computed to...