how to cite this article: nilipor y, shariatmadari f, abdollah gorji f, rouzrokh m, ghofrani m, karimzadeh p, taghdiri mm,  delavarkasmaei h, ahmadabadi f, bakhshandeh bali mk, nemati h, saket s, jafari n, yaghini o, tonekaboni sh.  evaluation of one hundred pediatric muscle biopsies during a 2-year period in mofid children and toos hospitals. iran j child neurol. 2013 spring;7(2):17-21.   obje...

background: we aimed to value the usefulness of free to total prostate-specific antigen and prostate-specific antigen (psa) density for prostate cancer in the patients with psa levels of 4.0 ng/ml or less. methods: a total of 343 subjects with psa levels of 4.0 ng/ml or less were biopsied. all patients were divided into four groups according to the psa levels: 0 to 1.0 ng/ml, 1.1 to 2.0 ng/ml, ...

objective mustard gas (mg) is a poisoning chemical, mutagenic and carcinogenic alkylating agent. it is used during world war i and also iran-iraq conflict. the p53 tumor suppressor gene is involved in the pathogenesis of malignant disease. the aim of this study is to determine possible mutation in p53 gene of lung sample from mustard gas exposed patients. material and methods twelve lung biopsy...

background: aub is a common cause of women’s referring to gynecologists. although hysteroscopy is known as the gold standard technique for diagnosing the cause of aub, sonohysterography is less invasive, and it is performed by general gynecologists. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of sonohysterography compared to the results of the endometrial biopsy, guided...

Objective: Since colposcopy biopsy test plays a significant role in the evaluation of cervix, especially in patients with an abnormal result of Pap smear test, therefore, this research study was conducted to compare the results of Pap smear and colposcopy directed punch biopsy tests at Firoozgar and Akbarabady hospitals from 2001 to 2003. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was ca...

Biopsies of thoracic lesions guidance. 22 of the 1 12 lesions were mediastinal and 83 were pleuroparenchymal. A large-bore 14-gauge Tru-cut needle was used in all patients. Adequate specimens for histologic examination were obtained in 98%. The overall accuracy was 91 % with 9% false negative and no false positive diagnoses. Despite the large size of the needle, the total number of complic...