immunohistochemical demonstration of tumor-associated markers may be valuable as an adjunct to conventional histology for determination of malignancy development in oral mucosal diseases. accordingly, the present study determined the distribution of some important tumor markers such as heat shock proteins (hsp), fibroblast growth factors (fgf) and transferrin receptors (tf-r) in 22 samples of p...

objective: the aim of the present study was to estimate crude and age-standardized incidence rates for oral and pharyngeal nonsquamous cell malignant tumors in kerman province over a period of 11 years. materials and methods: the data used in this retrospective population-based study were extracted from the records registered in all pathology centers of kerman province from 1991 to 2001. all co...

introduction : oral health is an important aspect of public health which affects people’s quality of life. oral health related quality of life is assessed to evaluate the effect of different diseases on individual’s daily life quality. the aim of this study was to examine the oral health related quality of life in patients with head and neck tumors who received radio and chemotherapy. materials...

salivary diagnostics has fascinated many researcheres and has been tested as a valuable tool in the diagnosis of many systemic conditions and for drug monitoring. advances in the field of molecular biology, salivary genomics and proteomics have led to the discovery of new molecular markers for oral cancer diagnosis, therapeutics and prognosis. oral cancer is a potentially fatal disease and the ...

metastasis to the oral region is very rare and accounts for less than 1% of oral malignant tumors. breast, lung, kidney, adrenal, gastro intestinal tract and prostates are most common primary tumors from which metastasis to oral region occur frequently. metastasis from thyroid gland is extremely rare to oral region. we present an unusual case of metastatic follicular carcinoma of thyroid in max...

background: few studies regarding oral lesions of children and adolescents were reported in the medical literature. the aim of this study was to determine the frequency of these lesions in patients from birth to 20 years old in babol, northern iran.methods: the slides of all cases of oral lesions in children and adolescents, between 1990 and 2012 were obtained from the pathology archives of sha...

background: tumor markers are substances, which quantitatively changes in serum, during the tumor development, one such tumor marker is serum β2-microglobulin (β2-m). the aim of this study was to establish the role of β2-m as a biochemical parameter for diagnosis and prognosis of oral carcinoma by estimation of serum β2-m levels in potentially malignant lesions, conditions, and oral squamous ce...

Background: Few studies regarding oral lesions of children and adolescents were reported in the medical literature. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of these lesions in patients from birth to 20 years old in Babol, Northern Iran.Methods: The slides of all cases of oral lesions in children and adolescents, between 1990 and 2012 were obtained from the pathology archives of Sha...

oral cavity t-cell lymphoma occurs rarely. this case report describes a patient with such a tumor. the case was a 75 years old man presented with a painless swelling on his hard palate mucosa. he had suffered from nose- bleeding and nasal obstruction. pathology revealed the presence of a t-cell lymphoma tumor in the palate. though rare, the signs and symptoms of the case suggest that t-cell lym...

the antitumor activity of ethanol extract of prosopis glandulosa torr. (epg) was evaluated against ehrlich ascites carcinoma (eac) tumor model in swiss albino mice on dose dependent manner. the activity was assessed using survival time, average increase in body weight, hematological parameters and solid tumor volume. oral administration of epg at the dose of 100, 200 and 400 mg/kg, significantl...