BACKGROUND Tracheal stenosis is more frequent as a result of wide-spread use of endotracheal intubation and tracheostomy. Resection and tracheal reconstruction remain the treatment of choice in benign tracheal stenosis. OBJECTIVES To report our experience in Basra and to identify the result of anastomosis after tracheal resection and management of those patients preoperatively and postoperati...

This was a cross-sectional study in Basra, and involved 353 women who had recently given birth drawn from health care institutions. The main objective was to determine the factors that helped determine the women’s choice of place of delivery: hospital or home. Only 16.1% delivered at home, while 83.9% delivered in hospital. The main reasons for choosing hospital delivery were safety and securit...

OBJECTIVE To elucidate on the presentation of psoriasis among children in southern Iraq. METHODS This is an outpatient based, cross sectional clinical study, that was carried out in the Dermatology Department of Basra Teaching Hospital, Basra, Iraq, from April 2004 to June 2007, where a total of 104 psoriatic children were enrolled in the study. They were 59 females and 45 males, with a mean ...

Malignant solid tumors represent about 50% of all malignant neoplasm in children aged less than 15 years ,They make more than 80% of all malignancies in infants. To focus on clinical and biological characteristics of patients with various types of malignant solid tumors who have been admitted to the Oncology center at Basra Maternity and Children Hospital during the period from the 1st of Janua...

BACKGROUND Jellyfish stings are common worldwide with an estimated 150 million cases annually, and their stings cause a wide range of clinical manifestations from skin inflammation to cardiovascular and respiratory collapse. No studies on jellyfish stings have been carried out in Basra, Iraq. OBJECTIVES To describe the immediate and delayed skin reactions to White Jellyfish (Rhizostoma sp.) s...

Article history: Received 17 October 2007 Received in revised form 11 February 2008 Accepted 26 February 2008 Available online 14 April 2008 Humin is an important fraction of soil organic matter that is known to tightly bind many organic compounds. The objective of this study was to evaluate the role of humin as a natural sorbent in soils irrigated with freshwater and treated wastewater. To mee...

An antigen of high sensitivity and 97.5% specificity prepared from hydatid cyst fluid was used in an ELISA test for a sero-epidemiological survey in areas of Basra, Iraq. The calculated predictive values for positive and negative cases were 3.5% and 96.4% respectively.

Antimicrobial resistance is a major problem in the new history of medicine all over world. However, there are no previously available data on exact situation or extent Basra to estimate overall prevalence antibiotic by specifying it according causative organisms general hospitals during 2021. The study descriptive analysis that was conducted 5 main Basra, Iraq Data related microorganisms and se...