A young man with cerebral infarction, skeletal, cardiac and renal malformations was found to have on angiography a rare lesion involving the cervical left internal carotid artery, formed by the superposition of two arterial lumina. Anti-platelet therapy did not prevent thrombosis of the lesion and reinfarction. Extracranial-intracranial bypass graft was performed, followed by excision of the ar...

buthotus saulcyi is one of the six most important scorpion species in khuzestan province, which its venom causes probable general effects on its victims. due to insufficient knowledge about mechanism of the venom functions and its target organs and highly dependence of health to normal function of kidney, this survey has been accomplished. in present study, 75 male wistar rats were selected and...

We report the case of a 27 year old man who presented a nodule in the ventral face of the penis, which increased in volume and turned painful during erection so a vascular lesion was suspected, later confirmed with a Doppler study. A complete excision of the lesion was carried out with local anaesthesia. The pathological specimen was informed as "angiolimphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia" in ...

Bone hemangiomas are extremely rare in the ribs, with only a handful of cases reported in the literature. A case of a rib hemangioma is presented in which the pre-resection diagnosis was an aggressive chest wall tumor. The plain film, CT, MRI and bone scan features of the lesion were reviewed with the pathological correlation. On imaging, the lesion was expansile and lytic, and it also had fine...

In advanced age the bony mineralization is reduce and causes osteophoretic change, resulting osleolytic lesion and pathological fracture. During injury the spinal column and spinal cord can be injured anywhere along their length. The majority of the damage to spinal cord occurs at the time of injury. But further damage can be caused by improper handling of the unstable spine and by disruption o...

The authors describe the case of a 75-year-old female patient, bearing a single asymptomatic, nodular lesion of fibroelastic consistency for three years, located on the left hallux. Following surgical excision of the lesion, the pathological examination and immunohistochemistry revealed a superficial acral fibromyxoma. This type of lesion was first described in 2001 and today there are approxim...

A patient with progressive signs and symptoms suggestive of a pontine lesion is described. Intracranial investigations, CAT scan, vertebral angiography, and lumbar pneumoencephalogram revealed a space-occupying lesion of the pons and midbrain. The exact nature of the lesion was not established before the operation. A posterior fossa exploration was performed and a pontine haematoma was discover...

A 73-year-old woman with chief complaint of macroscopic hematuria was diagnosed as having left renal tumor with pancreatic invasion. Nephrectomy was performed. Pathological diagnosis was clear cell carcinoma, pT3a. Three months after the operation, liver metastasis appeared and sunitinib was started. Most of the liver metastases disappeared; however, a new lesion appeared, and sunitinib was swi...