OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that patients with limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis (SSc) have a higher incidence of lower limb large vessel disease than patients with diffuse cutaneous disease, and that anticentromere antibody is a risk factor for lower limb large vessel disease. METHODS Clinical and laboratory data from 119 patients with SSc (91 patients with limited cutaneous disease,...

Cutaneous leishmaniasis is one of the important parasitic disease of tropical, subtropical, and warm and damp areas, major endemic foci of which are present in various regions of Iran, including Isfahan province,. The first step in reducing the burden of a disease is acknowledging its epidemiology. This descriptiveanalytic study was performed on the students of primary school for diagnosis of s...

OBJECTIVE Malignancies have long been recognized as a complication of long lasting immunosuppressive therapy. We reviewed our experience to investigate the incidence and the spectrum of non cutaneous de novo malignant neoplasms. METHODS Between March 1987 and March 1996, 296 patients underwent 303 cardiac transplantation in our service. The population at risk consists of all patients survivin...

We present the case of a 57-year-old woman with known Hodgkins lymphoma who presented with PET/CT findings of a breast mass and diseased axillary lymph node despite negative results from a recent routine mammogram and ultrasound. Needle biopsy of the mass and lymph node confirmed a diagnosis of infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the breast with nodal metastases.

AHNMD: associated clonal hematologic none mast cell lineage disease CM: cutaneous mastocytosis CMML: chronic myelomonocytic leukemia MPCM: maculopapular cutaneous mastocytosis SM: systemic mastocytosis INTRODUCTION Maculopapular cutaneous mastocytosis (MPCM) is the clinical variant of cutaneous mastocytosis (CM) most frequently observed in adults, usually within the context of an indolent syste...

background: leishmaniasis, especially cutaneous leishmaniasis, is considered an important health problem in many parts of iran including kharve, khorasan razavi province. cutaneous leishmaniasis is caused by various species of leishmania, each having a different secondary host. thus, identifying the parasites’ specie is of paramount importance for containment strategy planning. the morphologica...