among patients with chronic unrelieved pain, war veterans of eight years long iraq - iran war deserve especial attention. they not only suffer from severe intractable pain but also should bear some intangible consequences of unrelieved pain and severe disability. this perspective study reviews the outcome of implantation of intrathecal opioid pumps in these patients. ten war veterans (mean age ...

Congenital insensitivity to pain or more scientifically Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathies (HSAN) is a rare genetic disorder which associates dysfunction with varying degree of dysfunction. Due the peripheral neuropathy, decreased sensitivity even complete anesthesia may be present resulting in, on ophthalmological level, neurotrophic ulcers. We report case 2 sisters (JM KM) presenti...

Rothmund–Thomson syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive genodermatosis characterized by early onset of poikiloderma and several other cutaneous and organ involvements. We are going to report a 14-year-old girl who has been diagnosed with Rothmund– Thomson syndrome since she was 3 years old and has been suffering from pain and swelling of the right elbow and forearm for about 6 months. There are...

Introduction:Cold dissection (CD) and bipolar cautery dissection (BCD) techniques are two common surgical tonsillectomy procedures used in the clinic. Obstruction has become more prevalent as the major surgical indication and is most prominently observed in younger children.Case Report:  In this report, we aimed to explain the abovementioned surgical techniques in detail and compare the results...

The authors would like to make the following two corrections: Reference 138 incorrectly cited a protocol report rather than full that was reviewed by authors. original reference (138: Ebadi S, Ansari NN, Henschke N, Naghdi Tulder MW. effect of continuous ultrasound on chronic low back pain: randomized controlled trial. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2011; 12: 59) should be replaced with 138: et al. ...

Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) is a rare hematologic disorder that manifests with hemolytic anemia, thrombosis, and peripheral blood cytopenias.Acute abdominal pain is one of the PNH clinical manifestations due to venous thrombosis of intra-abdominal sites including hepatic, portal, mesenteric, and splenic veins.Eculizumaband allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) arethe only w...