background: hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (hsct) is currently the only curative treatment for acute leukemia. as hsct improves the long-term survival, it is necessary to assess the late-onset complications affecting the quality of life following hsct. subjects and methods: the study included 122 patients (65 male, 57 female) with leukemia (72 aml and 50 all) who received transplants f...

background: considering that complications and outcome of each method of pediatric inguinal hernia repair are one of the determinants for pediatric surgeons for selection of the appropriate surgical technique, we compared the early and late complications of two inguinal repair techniques, with and without opening the external oblique muscle fascia. materials and methods: in this double-blind cl...

Tracheostomy may be associated with numerous acute, perioperative complications, some of which continue to be relevant well after the placement of the tracheostomy. A number of clinically important unique late complications have been recognized as well, including the formation of granulation tissue, tracheal stenosis, tracheomalacia, tracheoinnominate-artery fistula, tracheoesophageal fistula, ...

Figure 1 Chest radiograph shows cavitation with apical pleural.thickening and marked fibrosis at the left hilum causing deviation of the.trachea to the left. There is also adjacent apical calcification as well as a calcified focus at the left base with localized pleural calcification. The lateral aspect of the left hemidiaphragm is raised with obliteration of the left costophrenic angle. The ap...

In the last few years many chemically injured patients have been visited throughout the country in order to investigate the late respiratory complications of sulfur mustard. 35 patients who were previously admitted for mustard poisoning underwent complete clinical examination as well as spirometry, fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB), Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), and trans bronchial lung biopsy...