lumbar hernias (lh) accounts for less than 1.5% of total hernia incidence. it can occur in two separate triangular areas of the flank. about 300 cases have been reported in the literature. here, we report a 55-year old man with acute painful left side flank mass and final diagnosis of lh. the mass was appeared about three hours before admission and his pain was slight at first but became more s...

introduction pelvic pain results from many causes such as primary dysmenorrhea, uterine anomalies, menstrual outflow obstruction, endometriosis, myoma and adenomyosis. this study reports on a rare case of non-communicating functional rudimentary horn. case presentations a 15-year-old nulligravida young woman with a history of severe intermittent pelvic pain presented a 4-5 centimeter mass. a su...

Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) is a rare congenital cardiac malformation. We report three cases of ALCAPA who survived to adulthood. The first case was a 51-year-old woman who complained of typical chest pain that was diagnosed with ALCAPA using cardiac catheterization and coronary computed tomographic angiography (CTA). The second case was a 30-...

Osteoma is a benign bone-forming tumor that usually arises in the craniofacial bones and rarely in the long bones. Clavicular involvement is extremely rare. We report a 51-year-old woman with osteoma of the left clavicle. Radiograph of the left shoulder showed a well-defined lobulated blastic mass in the proximal and mid-portion of the left clavicle. Bone scintigraphy was performed 4 hours afte...

Infective endocarditis can complicate with ischemic stroke. Neurological complications develop in 20-40% of all patients with infective endocarditis. These are mainly due to vegetation embolism.This report represents a case of 30 years old female patient who presented with features of heart failure New York Heart Association (NYHA) class IV with infective endocarditis and left hemiparesis. On e...

neurological manifestation may complicate takayasu arteritis (ta). a 23-year-old girl with sudden onset of vision loss was admitted to hospital. her brain mri showed abnormal t2-signal hyperintensity and visual evoked potential revealed prolonged p100 latency. consequently, optic neuritis was diagnosed. a review on history of dizziness, falling, and weak pulses of upper extremities led to more ...