introdouction: oral squamous cell carcinoma (oscc), the most common form of oral cancer, requires early diagnosis and suitable treatments. fascin is a protein involved in cell adhesion and is increased in expression in certain types of carcinomas. the present study was conducted to assess fascin expression in oscc using an immunohistochemical technique. materials and methods: in the present ret...

herein, we report the f-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (18f-fdg) positron emission tomography (pet)/computed tomography (ct) findings of a benign solitary fibrous tumor (sft) of the kidney. the patient was a 63-year-old woman with a mass in the right kidney (10×9.7 cm), incidentally found on ct images. the ct scan showed a lobulated tumor arising from the hilum of the right kidney. the tumor consisted o...

introduction : pulmonary adenosquamous carcinoma is an uncommon histological variety of bronchogenic carcinoma, and has histologic areas differentiated as both squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma and has clinical behavior more like that of adenocarcinoma. tumor stage is higher at the time of diagnosis, and survival is poorer. case presentation : we present a 65 years old woman with bulgi...

background: oral cancer is among the 10 most common cancers worldwide with an increasing global incidence. compromised antioxidant defense system plays a role in occurrence of cancer. this study evaluated the salivary antioxidant level of oral cancer patients compared to a control group. patients and methods: this case-control study was conducted on 22 oral squamous cell carcinoma patients pres...

conclusions according to the low prevalence of hcmv in oscc, it seems that this virus plays a minor role in this kind of cancer at least in southeast of iran. more comprehensive studies are needed to investigate the oncomodulatory effect of this virus on oscc. results the mean age of the patients (66.7% female and 33.3% male) was 58.6 years. only three cases (6.3%) of the grade i, oscc biopsies...