Back Cover: In this cover, cats (diene monomers) enjoy playing with the special ball (saccharin methacrylamide). They are combined together in alternating fashion to become like a giant cord. Herein, subsequent transformation makes balls shiny, and seem be satisfied connection mysterious toy. The cord is relatively soft because flexible. This cover picture associated article number 2100249 by M...

Acute scrotal swelling is an urgent urologic condition, and its failure in diagnosis is "one of the litigious issues in urologic practice. "1-2 Although acute scrotal pain is due to spermatic cord torsion in 25-35% of cases, the urologist should either rule it out or treat it immediately. 2 We operated a case of acute scrotal edema in a two-day-old boy who had, according to clinical results...

Background: Umbilical cord blood (UCB) is an alternative source of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), used in Leukemia treatment. CD26+ cells, a fraction of CD34 positive cells, are a major population of UCB cells which negatively regulate the in vivo homing and engraftment of HSCs. CD26 is highly expressed in various cells such as HSCs, immune cells, fibroblasts, and epithelial ce...

Background: Cervical spinal cord is important and radiosensitive. It is the most critical organ for the head and neck (H&N;) cancer patients during radiotherapy. If the delivered dose to the cord is more than tolerance dose, demyelination may occur. Objective: Current study aims to analyze the post radiotherapy status of cord in the H&N; cancer patients.Material and Methods: In this a...

Total and regional allometric growth rates and termination sites of the spinal cord related to the respective vertebra were studied in 36 goat fetuses, from the Ahvaz slaughterhouse. These specimens were assigned to 3 groups, group 1 (CRL 10-20 cm), group 2 (CRL 21-30 cm), and group 3 (CRL 31-40 cm), each consisting of 6 male and 6 female fetuses. Observations in all 3 groups revealed that alth...

clear cell variant of ependymoma is almost exclusively located in the supratentorial region. only few cases of this tumor that located in the spinal cord have been reported. here we report one case of intramedullary clear cell ependymoma of the lumbar spinal cord. in microscopic examination, the tumor cells were round to oval with moderate amounts of clear cytoplasm and centrally located large ...

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...