non hodgkin lymphoma (nhl) constitutes 5% of all head & neck cancer. the incidence of it has been increased over the last four decades. one of main characteristic of nhl is extranodal presentation that has different pattern in various part of world. a retrospective was designed in a tertiary referral center. it has been done between january 1996 and march 2006. all clinical and pathological cha...

BACKGROUND Intestinal malabsorption in the elderly is infrequent, and clinical features are muted so that the diagnosis is often missed. Physiologic changes with aging are restricted to altered absorption of calcium and perhaps zinc and magnesium; however, achlorhydria can lead to impaired absorption of vitamin B(12), folic acid, and calcium. METHODS AND RESULTS Small bowel bacterial overgrow...

Introduction: Burkitt lymphoma is an aggressive subtype of Hodgkin lymphoma with a doubling time of 25 hours. It is characterized by a MYC gene coding alteration which results from a translocation of chromosome 8 on the MYC gene locus and immunoglobulin heavy-chain locus (IGH) on chromosome 14. Even though HIV infection is associated to an increased risk of Burkitt lymphoma, th...

despite multiple published studies reporting result of salvage regimens for relapsed and refractory hodgkin's lymphoma, there are no comparisons of different combinations.a total of 44 patients identified with refractory or relapsed hodgkin's lymphoma were considered eligible for this study. the patients were randomly divided into two groups of 22, one of which were treated with gdp regimen (ge...

introduction: lymphomas as a group rank seventh as the most leading cause of death in cancers. stomach is the most common extra nodal site of primary lymphomas. on the other hand, new information demonstrates that malt lymphoma responds to helicobacter antibiotic therapy. we therefore decided to determine the frequency of distribution of helicobacter pylori infection in primary gastric lymphoma...

Background: Among all types of cancers, pancreatic cancer has poor prognosis with 5-year survival below 10%. In theory, alcohol intake may be a modifiable risk factor for pancreatic cancer due to its role in multiple carcinogenic and metabolic signaling pathways. In addition, alcohol consumption may lead to chronic pancreatitis which is underlying cause of pancreatic cancer. However, little is ...

in an effort to evaluate the hypoglycemic activity of t. polium, the crude extract was administered orally to a group of streptozotocin induced diabetic rats for 6 consecutive weeks. significant decrease in blood glucose by 64%, total bilirubin by 35%, glutamate oxaloacetate transferase by 48% and glutamate pyruvate transferase by 30% was observed compared to untreated diabetic rats. however, t...

a 45-year-old female patient with a diagnosis of ulcerative colitis complicated with composite lymphoma in the spleen and para-aortic lymph node presented with a one-month history of malaise, weakness and fatigue. only mesalamine kept ulcerative colitis under control. in physical examination, splenomegaly was revealed and pancytopenia was obtained from laboratory data. computed tomography scan ...