Background and purpose : Malignant and infectious diseases are the most frequent causes of pleural effusion. Malignant diseases produce pleural effusion through different mechanisms: lymphatic and capillary obstruction, pneumonia or atelectasia. Therefore absence of tumor cells in aspirated effusion, highly declines the sensivity of the cytologic study. For this reason, the use of tumor marke...

Background and purpose : Pelvic mass with ascitis and elevated serum ÇÂ-125 level is suggestive of an advanced ovarian malignancy. Peritonitis is an uncommon event. Which can have the same symptoms, therefore this phenomenon must be considered in case of differential diagnosis of ovarian carcinoma. Âim of reporting this interesting and rare case, is to make attention of colleages to this dif...

توده لگنی همراه با آسیت و افزایش سطح سرمی ca-125 از علایم پیشنهاد کننده سرطان پیشرفته تخمدان هستند. پریتونیت ناشی از سل میلیاری پدیده ای نادر است که می تواند همین علایم را تقلید کند و در تشخیص افتراقی سرطان تخمدان باید در نظر گرفته شود. هدف از گزارش این مورد جالب و نادر، جلب توجه همکاران به این تشخیص افتراقی، قبل و در حین عمل جراحی است. بیمار ما خانم جوان 28 ساله که سابقه یک بار حاملگی داشته و ...

Background and purpose: The presence of methanol in different types of drinks has caused problems and concerns. Therefore, developing a simple qualitative method to detect methanol in these products seems necessary. Ïn this study, a new easy low-risk sensitive and accurate method based on chromotropic acid (ÇÂ) has been suggested for the qualitative detection of methanol in various types of dri...