aim : the aim of this study was to comprehensively analyze histopathologic parameters of whipple pancreaticoduodenectomy specimens at taleghani general hospital pathology department. background : the whipple procedure is performed for variety of tumors involving the head of the pancreas, ampulla of vater, common bile duct, or duodenum. patients and methods : records of all cases of whipple panc...

Abnormalities of body temperature are perhaps the most common features in many systemic pathologic processes. Such pathologic alterations are nearly always the result of extrinsic factors (for example, systemic pyrogens) which affect the hypothalamic thermoregulatory center by way of circulatory system. Much less common is alterations in temperature regulation resulting from intrinsic lesions o...

The collected comments and pathologic diagnoses of several pathologists are summarized for 18 cases in which lesions were induced in the upper respiratory tract of rats and mice. Specific neoplastic and nonneoplastic lesions of the nose and trachea are described and discussed, and opinions regarding pathogenesis and biologic significance of the lesions are presented. The anatomic and pathophysi...

CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC REVIEWS of mixed (discordant) levocardia (atrial situs solitus with L-loop with or without corrected transposition of the great arteries) have stressed the high association of this lesion with ventricular septal defect, pulmonic stenosis, left atrioventricular (A-V) valve regurgitation with or without stenosis, and Ebstein's disease of the left A-V valve.'Obstruction to ...

A 54 years old man casually diagnosed with right renal hypernephroma underwent a radical right nephrectomy seven years ago. The pathologic exam confirmed a clear cell carcinoma. In the follow up study, an abdominal CT demonstrated metastasis shaped lesions in liver and left kidney and a hypervascular colonic nodular lesion (Fig. 1). A colonoscopy was performed. The pathologic study of the colon...

A 24-year-old male presented with eight months of increasingly severe frontal headaches, decreased right facial sensation, and periodic vertigo. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated a heterogeneously contrast-enhancing mass involving and expanding the right foramen ovale.  A biopsy of the lesion was performed, and the final pathologic diagnosis revealed a neoplastic rhabdomyoma. To date, onl...

OBJECTIVE To describe the methods used for assessment of baseline fundus characteristics from color photography and fluorescein angiography (FA) in the Comparison of Age-Related Macular Degeneration Treatments Trials (CATT) and to describe the relationship between these characteristics and visual acuity. DESIGN Randomized, masked, multicenter trial. PARTICIPANTS This investigation included ...

We report hereby two cases of fluorescence-guided surgical resection with Indocyanine green in vulvo-vaginal neoplasia. The first case was a 86-year old patient who had high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion the left small lip and on vulvar fork. After incomplete surgery, second vulvectomy performed ICG injected intravenously to determine intraoperatively margins. At final pathologic examin...