conclusions lidocaine-meperidine-diltiazem gel provides significantly better pain control than lidocaine-diltiazem gel and lidocaine gel alone during transrectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy and probe insertion. this mixture gel is safe, easy to administer and well accepted by patients. results the mean of visual analog pain scale was 4.5 in group a, 3.5 in group b, and 2.0 in group c duri...

introduction renal lymphangiectasia is a rare disorder of the lymphatic system that might be confused with various other renal cystic diseases and urinoma. clinical presentation is non-specific and characteristic findings in radiologic imaging are the mainstay of diagnosis. case presentation we reported a case of bilateral lymphangiectasia in a 32-year-old woman who presented with flank pain an...

background: studies have shown that obese individuals are at increased risk of breast cancer development and poorer prognosis. leptin, an adipose tissue-derived hormone, has pro-inflammatory and proliferative effects and a well-established association with several comorbidities of obesity. this study was designed and conducted to compare the serum levels of leptin in patients with malignant and...

benign duodenocolic fistula (dcf), known as a fistula between the duodenum and colon with or without cecum of nonmalignant origin, is an unusual complication of different gastrointestinal diseases. the present paper records a case in which the patient presented with chronic diarrhea, abdominal pain, weight lossas well as having a history of gastric ulcer. most frequently the condition presents ...

background: in cancers of prostate, breast, oropharynx, lung, hypopharynx and skin, human tissue kallikreins has been demonstrated as a main role in these problems. there are many research works in which some human tissue kallikreins are expressed in salivary glands. in the present study, the main goal was to determine expression of human tissue kallikreins 4, 8, 10, 11 and 13 in pleomorphic ad...

introduction: the role of laser in conservative management of oral disease is well established. laser procedures are common in the fields of oral surgery, implant dentistry, endodontic, and periodontic therapy. case: this case series describes the use of diode laser for the excision of oral exophytic lesions. all the patients attended the oral medicine department of shahid beheshti university o...

normal 0 false false false microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: the most common cancer among women is breast cancer and it has been blamed as the second leading cause of cancer death in women; so far many approaches have been used to analyze and detect benign and malignant forms of cancer and understanding the features involved in proteins expressed by various types of breast cancers is cruci...

this report presents an 11 year-old girl with benign recurrent cholestasis (bric) who developed episodes of severe jaundice and pruritus at the ages of 2.5 and 10 years. each episode lasted for 3-4 months. the peak level of serum bilirubin reached 33-37 mg/dl.liver function tests were all normal during the attack except for increased alkaline phosphatase and prolonged prothrombin time responsiv...

androgenic alopecia as a physiologic process and benign prostatic hyperplasia (bph) as a pathologic process in the older population are androgen-dependent processes influenced by 5-alpha reductase enzyme which converts testosterone to dihydrotestosterone. this cross sectional study was done to evaluate the relationship between androgenic alopecia and bph. 150 men older than 50 years old, who pr...

chondroma is a benign tumor which mostly occurs in extremities but also sometimes in brain. most intracranial chondromas arise from skull base, but chondroma of falx origin is a rare circumstance. indeed, the intracranial chondromas rise from falx is mostly in relation with syndromic disorders such as mafucci's syndrome or ollier's syndrome. here, we reported a rare case of falxian intracranial...