background: acute methanol poisoning is one of the most important chemical poisoning due to drinking of illegal and handmade alcoholic beverages in iran. the aim of this study was to evaluate clinical and biochemical parameters as prognostic factor in acute methanol poisoning. methods: a retrospective study was performed on acute methanol poisoning cases admitted to the loghman hakim hospital p...

today, the treatment of patellar luxations using current techniques has become a very common procedureas part of the surgical treatment. nevertheless, there are some doubts about such procedures in restraining the patella in lower grade cases. the purpose of the present retrospective clinical study was to determine theefficacy of the soft tissue and bone reconstructive procedures used for vario...

background: acute myeloid leukemia (aml) is a malignant disorder involving blood cells, characterized by obstructed or distorted differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells. in cytogenetically normal aml (cn aml), molecular abnormalities in npm, flt3, cebpa, and baalc genes are observed. initially, high baalc (brain and acute leukemia cytoplasmic gene) expression was introduced in a study on am...

A method of temporal factor prognosis of TE (tick-borne encephalitis) infection has been developed. The high precision of the prognosis results for a number of geographical regions of Primorsky Krai has been achieved. The method can be applied not only to epidemiological research but also to others.

ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION Non-Hodgkin lymphomas represent malignant tumors of lymphoid cells. These chronic lymphoproliferative disorders stand for malignancies with varied histological aspects, clinical features, evolution, prognosis and aggressiveness. Follicular lymphomas are the most frequent form of indolent lymphomas and they represent around 25% of all malignant lymphomas in adults. MAT...

Contact dermatitis is an inflammatory skin disease due to contact with different substances and caused by two mechanisms: Allergy and irritation. Contact dermatitis is a common skin disease and the most common occupational dermatosis. Differentiating between allergic and irritant contact dermatitis is essential in the identification of etiologic factor(s) and hence, its control and prognosis. T...

AIM Pituitary adenomas do not have a single factor of aggressive behavior or recurrence. The objective of this study was to determine factors influencing the prognosis in pituitary adenomas. MATERIAL AND METHODS 243 patients who were operated between January 2000 and June 2012 were included in this retrospective study. Demographic data, age at diagnosis, date of diagnosis, date of operation, ...

The angiogenic proteins vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and prokineticin1 (PROK1) proteins are considered important in colorectal cancer, the relationship between their simultaneous expression and prognosis was investigated in the present study. VEGF and PROK1 expression in 620 primary human colorectal cancer lesions was confirmed via immunohistochemical staining with anti-VEGF and an...

The extraction of a set of rules underlying a classification problem is performed by applying a new algorithm reconstructing the and-or expression of any Boolean function from a given set of samples. The basic kernel of the method, called Hamming Clustering (HC), is the generation of clusters of input patterns that belong to the same class and are close each other according to the Hamming dista...