background spitz nevus is an infrequent acquired melanocytic nevus. there is still a challenge for dermatopathologists in distinguishing spitz nevus from malignant melanoma particularly in adults since there is no immunohistochemistry or molecular markers which differentiate spitz nevus from melanoma. objectives the aim of this study is to make clear what clinico-histopathological features of s...

aim : the aim of this study was to assay the most common signs, symptoms, and positive paraclinical findings in pancreatic cancer. background : it seems that the most available method for early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer is using clinical history and especially appearance of early signs and symptoms. patients and methods : in this descriptive study, all pancreatic cancer patients referred t...

background: according to some provincial reports, prevalence of hepatitis a has had a decreasing trend during the past decade in iran. we aimed to overview clinical manifestations and laboratory findings of iranian pediatric patients diagnosed with hepatitis a infection. materials and methods: this retrospective study was performed on 162 consecutive pediatric cases of hepatitis a infection. da...

Background In 2019, an unknown disease called coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) began to spread in China. The disease is now widespread in almost all countries and has endangered the lives of many people. For this reason, a systematic review and meta-anal...

o bjective: to determine the effects of intravenous acetaminophen (apotel®)  on pain severity and clinical findings of peritonitis in patients with acute appendicitis. m e thods: this randomized  cross-over clinical trial was carried out duringa 6-month  period from august 2012 to february 2013 and comprised 107 patients diagnosed with acute appendicitis. patients were randomly assigned to rece...

abstract objective autosomal recessive spinal muscular atrophy (sma) is, after cystic fibrosis, the second most common fatal monogenic disorder and the second most common hereditary neuromuscular disease after duchenne dystrophy. the disease is characterized by degeneration of anterior horn cells leading to progressive paralysis with muscular atrophy. depending on the clinical type (werdnig- ho...

how to cite this article: karimzadeh p, jafari n, nejad biglari h, jabbehdari j, khayat zadeh s, ahmad abadi f, lotfi a. neurometabolic diagnosis in children who referred as neurodevelopmental delay (a practical criteria, in iranian pediatric patients). iran j child neurol. summer 2016; 10(3):73-81.   objective we aimed to investigate the clinical and para clinical manifestations of neuro metab...

introduction due to limitation of colonoscopy in assessing the entire bowel and patients’ intolerance in inflammatory bowel disease (ibd), in the current study, we aimed to prospectively compare the accuracy of 99m tc(v)-dimercaptosuccinic acid (dmsa) and fecal calprotectin with ileocolonoscopy as new methods for localizing inflammations. methods current prospective study conducted between 2012...