BACKGROUND Achalasia is a primary esophageal motor disorder involving the body of the esophagus and lower esophageal sphincter. The mechanism is destruction of the myenteric plexus after a viral infection. Multiple methods of treatment with variable results induced in achalasia. MATERIALS AND METHODS We analyzed 70 patients with achalasia that underwent surgical treatment with transabdominal ...

leaf rolling, especially in cereals, mechanisms for reducing the light receiving surface of the leaves to reduce transpiration rate in response to drought caused. to investigate the effect of drought stress on leaf rolling and leaf anatomical characteristics, yield and yield components in field experiment was conducted bahonar university . in this experiment, five varieties of wheat (shole, omi...

aegilops triuncialis l. (2n=4x=28; ctctutut) is one of the tetraploid aegilops species harboring valuable genes for resistance to many biotic and abiotic stresses. in the present study the bread wheat cultivars mv17, navid, omid, pishgam, zarin were crossed with an accession of ae. triuncialis and the resulted f1 and f2 (obtained by the selfing of f1 plants) hybrids studied using the convention...

background and objective: histopathological evaluation of granulosa cell tumors (gct) of the ovary may be confused morphologically with a wide variety of the tumors. immunohistochemical staining for inhibin and calretinin can be used for better diagnosis. although it has been suggested that inhibin can be a sensitive marker for gct, it maybe had negative results in some cases.  in addition, cal...

background: splenic cysts are known as rare clinical encounter. classifying into primary (true) and secondary cysts (pseudocysts), true cysts contain cellular epithelial lining and subdivided into parasitic and non-parasitic cysts. this study aimed to determine the outcome of treatment in patients with splenic cyst. methods: all patients with splenic cyst who had been treated in department of g...

objectives: the present research has been carried out to investigate the effectiveness of group mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on modification of body image and quality of life in women with breast cancer undergoing mastectomy.  materials: this research is a quasi-experimental study (pretest-posttest with control). in this clinical trial, 50 voluntary patients who had undergone mastectomy ...

in order to study adapatability and yield stability of irrigated bread wheat cultivars alvand, alamout, zarrin, navid, azar 2, sabalan, omid and bezostiya this experiment was conducted in rcbd during three cropping seasons (2007-2010) in six cities. simple anova and combined analysis of variance for three years in every location and also combined analysis of variance for three years and six loc...