introduction primary malignant esophageal melanoma makes up 0.1% to 0.2% of all esophageal malignancies. most physicians assume malignant melanoma as a skin originated neoplasm, however this type of melanoma can occur anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract especially in the esophagus. thus, it is essential to consider malignant melanoma in differential diagnosis of any esophagus masses. case pr...

endometriosis is a painful reproductive disease afflicting about up to 20% of women. it is one of the most frequent benign gynaecological diseases, however, little is known about the pathological of endometriosis. over the past decade, high-throughput proteomics technologies have evolved considerably and have become increasingly more commonly applied to the investigation of female reproductive ...

blepharitis is the most common ocular disease encountered by an ophthalmologist constituting 37% of all ophthalmology clinics out patient visits. blepharitis is categorized into anterior and posterior, each classified as infectious or noninfectious. anterior blepharitis is mainly infectious and caused by staphylococcus sp., propyonibacterium acne, corynebacterium sp., moraxella catarrhalis, her...

background accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis in infants is important. there are a few studies around tuberculosis in infancy in the literature. objectives this study defines the clinical and radiological features of tuberculosis in infants less than one year of age. materials and methods the medical records were reviewed for all infants aging 12 months or less with diagnosis of tuberculosis at...

background: brucellosis is one of the endemic and a zoonotic disease of the iran. science the rapid diagnosis and quick treatment are very important, selection of a sensitive and specific test solving this problem is of a great importance. the main aim of this study is comparison of routine serologic test with standard elisa test. materials and methods: in this survey, 176 suspected patients wi...

background: we sought to determine the frequency of the risk factors for congestive cardiac failure (ccf) in a tertiary care hospital in peshawar, pakistan. methods: this retrospective, observational study was conducted in the department of cardiology, postgraduate medical institute, lady reading hospital peshawar, from march 2005 to september 2007. relevant information regarding the risk facto...

background: early diagnosis of abnormal progressive labor and prevention of prolonged labor will cause decreased complications of mothers and fetuses. this was conduced to evaluate the alert line in who recommended program for diagnosis of abnormal labor. methods: subjects were 140 pregnant women. when their cervices were dilated about 3cm, the progress of delivery and condition of mothers and ...

background: the aim of this study was to detect dientamoeba fragilis by iron haematoxylin stain, as well as its prevalence, and association between d. fragilis infection and diarrhoea among patients at-tending al-nuseirate refugee camp clinic, gaza strip. methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted among 319 children and adults with age ranges from (1 to 75) years old, attending al-nussirat ...

background and objectives: tuberculosis (tb) is a major problem in the world. treatment and control of tb needs detection of the mycobacterium tuberculosis (mt) in the proper samples. while smear doesn’t have enough sensitivity, culture and pcr are expensive, time consuming and unavailable in many centers. recent development of a rapid tb antigen detection test (prtbk) at pasteur institute of i...