the foundation of an hospital with a specialized dispensary allowed the authors to undertake a study of the poliomyelitic disease on a sufficient number of children to afford the necessary clinical factor to the epidemiological surveillance of the disease in a town under full hygienic transformation. these first results indicate a present increase of paralytic poliomyeliti

BACKGROUND This study was performed to evaluate the prevalence, clinical features and management of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) in Iran. METHODS All cases of CRC presented to a principal referral University hospital (SGH) for cancers in Teheran, Iran between June 20, 2000 and January 3, 2003 were retrospectively reviewed. RESULTS A total of 200 patients were included. 114 patients...

15 cases of acute renal failure follow ing ingestion of bichloride of mercury were studied at pahlavi medical center, university of teheran, between 196? and 1972. all the patients admitted suicide attempts. all had oliguria and uremia except one, in whom oliguria was moderate without azotemia. there were four deaths among the 15 patients, tgastrointestinal hernorrage; secondery infection and t...

in the previous studies by foreign investigators on culicinae fauna of iran two culiseta, cs. longiareolata and cs. annulata; one coguillettidia, cog. richiardii, and one uranotaenia species, ur. unguiculata have been reported. in the comprehensive study of the culicinae fauna of iran, made by the school of public health, teheran university, since 1980, not only all named species, except one, w...