The tongue surface directly above a fungiform taste bud is flat, thinly keratinized, and free of filiform spines. We examined fungiform papillae in serial sections of rat and gerbil tongues after unilateral transection of the chorda-lingual nerve had caused many fungiform taste buds to degenerate. Such empty fungiform papillae often formed a solitary keratinized outgrowth that closely resembled...

severe overgrowth and tallness is very rare in human beings. the most common cause is gigantism due to the excessive secretion of the growth hormone, especially, before the closure of long bones’ epiphyseal growth plates. there are other rare disorders that are categorized on overgrowth syndromes. herein, we report an extremely rare, or even perhaps a unique, patient from iran. the clinical and...

Abstract Background In recent years, surgical therapy has taken on an increasingly decisive role in the therapeutic armamentarium of migraine. All techniques are aimed at complete neurolysis some extra-cranial nerves, which most involved (in our experience) greater and lesser occipital, auriculotemporal, supraorbital, supratrochlear nerves. This paper describes approaches for treatment temporal...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the use of an allogenic acellular dermal matrix (ADM) as an interpositional graft to prevent Frey's syndrome after parotidectomy. METHOD We studied a total of 168 patients with benign parotid gland tumours, including 89 patients with pleomorphic adenoma; 45 with Warthin tumour; 17 with basal cell adenoma; and 17 with miscellaneous tumours. The patients were divided into ...

macrophage activating syndrome (mas) is a life-threatening disease seen in autoimmune diseases including lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, still's disease, polyarteritis nodosa. it is characterized by fever, pancytopenia, liver failure, coagulopathy, and neurologic symptoms and high serum ferritin. a 27 yr. old female patient was admitted in shahid mostafa khomeini hospital (tehra...

primary immunodeficiencies (pid) are a group of disorders, characterized by an unusual susceptibility to infections. delay in diagnosis results in increased morbidity and mortality in affected patients. the purpose of this study was to determine the mortality rate of iranian immunodeficient patients referred to children medical center hospital affiliated to tehran university of medical sciences...

superior vena cava (svc) syndrome is not an uncommon occurrence in patients with malignancy and it is often described as a medical emergency. in majority of the cases, svc syndrome occurs due to mechanical obstruction of the svc by extraluminal compression with primary intrathoracic malignancies. however, intraluminal obstruction due to thrombosis can also produce symptoms and signs of svc synd...

in this case report, we present the first diagnosed case of galloway- mowat syndrome in iran. a 7 month old infant boy with microcephaly that had prominently stunted head growth after birth, gastroesophageal reflux, multiple craniofascial characters, hypothyroidism and nephrotic syndrome diagnosed at 5 months of age associated with rapid decline in renal function and heavy proteinuria in 2 mont...

a female one month old with features supporting a diagnosis of neonatal progeroid syndrome(wrs)  presented to our neonatology section of gb pant children hospital srinagar .she had prenatal and post natal growth failure, generalized lipotrophy, triangular face, psedohydrocephalous, sparse scalp hair and eye brows, prominent scalp veins and greatly widened anterior fontenella.