background: the effects of opium dependence on prognosis and short term outcome of patients with acute myocardial infarction (ami) are not clear yet. methods: from march 2004 to august 2004 all male patients admitted with diagnosis of ami were enrolled. patients who fulfilled dsm- iv-tr criteria were chosen as opium dependent patients (odp). demographic data, risk factors, peak enzyme levels, l...

abstract objective: to compare the conventional angiographic findings in extremity trauma patients with or without runoff. methods: this was cross-sectional study including all the patients with extremity trauma who underwent conventional angiography during the 2 year period from 2011 to 2013 in angiography departments of mashhad university of medical sciences. mechanism of trauma, type of inju...

curs in the pediatric age group. Ohta et al. (1) defined this condition as “a collection of nonmuscular venous blood vessels or venous hemangiomas adhering tightly to the outer surface of the skull bone and directly communicating with an intracranial venous sinus by way of many diploic veins of several sizes.” To our knowledge, few reports published in Korea have described the MR imaging and MR...

The incidence of traumatic rupture of the diaphragm has increased during the past decade, a reflection of the increased number of high speed automobile accidents. The left hemidiaphragm is more commonly ruptured by blunt abdominal trauma.' Occasionally, however, a right hemidiaphragmatic rupture may allow the liver to herniate into the chest. Rupture of the left hemidiaphragm is generally diagn...