introduction: primary ovarian failure (pof) is a syndrome composed of amenorrhea, estrogen deficiency and follicular stimulating hormone (fsh) of menopausal ranges in young women. in this article, we report a case of primary amenorrhea that presented with full term pregnancy.case presentation: a 29-year old woman with a history of primary amenorrhea attended hospital with full term pregnancy. s...

primary lymphomas of the lung are rare and usual radiographic findings are adenopathy, effusion, multiple lesions, solitary lesion or diffuse lesion. this paper presents a case of primary malignant tumor of the lung with a very rare radiological presentation. a 20-year-old male patient was admitted to our hospital due to fever, chills, productive cough and later development of hemoptysis. weigh...

normotensive hyperaldosteronism is a rare disorder. it is usually diagnosed with hypokalemia or an adrenal mass. our patient was a 27-year-old female presented with weakness. she had normal blood pressure, hypokalemia, high plasma aldosterone level and suppressed plasma renin activity. after the saline load, test aldosterone didn’t show suppression. adrenal computed tomography revealed a left a...

conclusions most cases for pneumothorax were consisted of the patients with the primary spontaneous pneumothorax; the patients with recurrent pneumothorax were comprised of secondary spontaneous pneumothorax patients and those of majority secondary spontaneous pneumothorax patients were observed with bullous emphysema profile. by looking at the pertinent literature, there are publications showi...

background: primary cutaneous lymphomas (pcls) represent a heterogeneous group of t- and b-cell lymphomas that present in the skin with no evidence of extracutaneous disease at the time of diagnosis. the aim of this study was to assess and report the epidemiological characteristics of pcls in isfahan, isfahan province, iran — as a main province of iran. materials and methods: a total of 99 pati...

introduction: the objective of this study was to gather information about normal occlusion and arch dimensions in the primary teeth of the children belonging to an iranian population. methods: this descriptive cross-sectional study was performed on 68 children from the city of mashhad in the 3-5 age range. dental arch dimensions, interrelationships of primary canine and second molars, overbite ...

between i 9h i and 1993,30 cases of primary cardiac tumors were diagnosed at the imam khomeini hospital. 20 patients were female and 10 were male, with an average age of 32 years (ranging from 17 days to 65 years of age). the mean duration of symptoms before diagnosis was 6 months, with dyspnea and palpitation being the most common symptoms (60%) and cardiac' murmurs the most usual signs (...

this report presents a rare case of bi-rooted primary maxillary canines. a 6-year-old girl presented at the department of pediatric dentistry, faculty of dentistry, mashhad university of medical sciences, iran, with the chief complaint of pain in the lower right quadrant of her dentition. radiographic examination revealed bifurcation of primary maxillary canine roots. this report discusses the ...

background and aims. the objectives of the present study were to investigate the prevalence and the position of enamel defects of primary teeth and hence to estimate the approximate time of an insult. material and methods. 121 children aged 3 to 5 years were included in the study. the modified developmental defects of enamel index was used to diagnose and classify the defects. the defects were ...

spleen is an unusual location for hydatid cyst. here we report a case of primary splenic hydatid cyst in a 41-yr-old iranian woman from yasuj, southwest of iran. the patient had been admitted to shahid beheshti hospital because of abdominal pain. abdominal sonography revealed a hypoechoic lesion of 150 x 130 mm in the spleen, suggestive of hydatid cyst. splenectomy was performed for the patient...