introduction: breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide and her-2 is one importantly prognostic factor in this cancer. tumor markers use as a criterion for predicting recurrence, but in breast cancer physical examination and mammography are important factors that are recommended for following up the recurrence. the aim of this study was to assess the correlation between breast ...

background illicit opiate use has an increasing incidence and prevalence, which increases mortality and morbidity, marginalization, and criminal behaviors, and causes major adverse effects on society. objectives this study aimed to investigate and follow the outcome of patients who underwent ultrarapid opiate detoxification (urod) prospectively. patients and methods in this randomized clinical ...

abstract   background: dupuytren's disease is a fibroproliferative disorder of the palmar fascia that can result in disabling contractures of the digits. when function is impeded or deformity is disabling, surgical intervention can be considered, wherein a major problem is recurrence ( reported up to 74%). although, the disease occurs predominantly in men of northern european, there are very fe...

bipolar i disorder (bid) and its treatments have shown to be associated with deep impacts on patients' subjective feelings and quality of life (qol). there are also some comments about impact of these feelings on course and outcome of patients with bid. this study was aimed to evaluate quality of life in patients with bid and to assess its relationship with course of disorder. fifty patients wi...

there is an impression that basal cell carcinomas (bcc) occurring in younger population may be of more invasive behavior in comparison to those arising in older patients. the purpose of this study was to investigate this hypothesis by comparing the histological types of bcc in a large cohort of young and old patients. a total of 287 histological reports and clinical records were evaluated. a co...

introduction: febrile seizure is the most common type of seizure that occurs in 3– 4% of children below the age of 5 years. the purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of recurrence of febrile and afebrile seizures after the first febrile seizure. methods: in a descriptive prospective study, 139 children (6months to 6years old) admitted between march 2004and august 2005 at yazd sha...

In this paper we solve several recurrence relations with two (three) indices using combinatorial methods. Moreover, we present several recurrence relations with two (three) indices related to ternary paths and k-ary paths. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. MSC: 10A35; 65Q05; 05.10

We define the excedance number on the complex reflection groups and compute its multidistribution with the number of fixed points on the set of involutions in these groups. We use some recurrences and generating functions manipulations to obtain our results.