background: brucellosis as a zoonosis is still a public health problem in many countries such as iran. to perform preventive, control, and eradication policies about the disease, we need the exact epidemiologic information and patterns of brucellosis in the country. in this study, we investigated the epidemiological, clinical, and treatment aspects of diseases in patients who had a record in sh...

a retrospective analysis was performed on forty cases of spinal cord meningiomas, operated on at dr. shariati hospital from 1976 to 1990. age and sex distribution, clinical presentation and tumor location were comparable to those reported by others. in males the tumors were distributed evenly in cervical and dorsal areas and were often anterior to the cord. this finding makes a different surgic...

THOMAS HoD)GKIN, wvhen demonstrator of pathology in Guy's Hospital, presented in 1832 to tlle London AMe(lical an(l Chirurgical Society a paper entitled "Morbid Appearances of the Absorbent Glands and Spleen," in which he described a series of' cases characterized by an enlargeement of the lymphatic glands and of the spleeni. The glands were of "a firm cartilaginous structure." The spleen was "...

Nocardiosis is an opportunistic, localized or disseminated granulomatous infection caused by an aerobic actinomycete most commonly found in soil, decomposing vegetation, and other organic matter, as well as in fresh and salt water 1. Infection most commonly occurs through the respiratory tract. Manifestations of disease range from cutaneous infection caused by traumatic inoculation of the organ...

Tuberculosis (TB) in adults can present in a large number of ways. The lung is the predominant site of TB. Primary pulmonary TB should be distinguished from postprimary pulmonary TB, which is the most frequent TB manifestation in adults (70%-80% cases). Cough is common, although the chest radiograph often raises suspicion of disease. Sputum sampling is a key step in the diagnosis of TB, and inv...

My object in this lecture will be to give an overview of the statistical aspects of current clinical trial methodology, including a very brief history, my view of current practice, recent relevant statistical developments, and areas that need further statistical research. My primary concern will be clinical experiments, though I will have some comments on other types of study of clinical data a...

Venous thrombophilia is the result of clotting changes namely of a hypercoagulable state together with blood flow and vessel wall changes. There is no need for all these components to be present in order for thrombosis to occur. As the matter of fact, thrombosis may occur even if only one of these conditions is present. In clinical practice a combination of factors is usualy seen. In comparison...