objectives the aim of this study was to present the incidence and characteristics of repeated tbi (rtbi) in iranian patients. patients and methods during one year, all admitted tbi patients with prior tbi history were enrolled into the study. in each patient, data such as age, gender, past medical history, injury cause, anatomic site of injury, tbi severity, clinical findings and ct scan findin...

background traumatic brain injury (tbi) is a worldwide problem, especially in countries with high incidences of road traffic accidents such as iran. patients with a single occurrence of tbi have been shown to be at increased risk to future tbi. this study presents incidences and characteristics of repeated traumatic brain injury (rtbi) in iran. materials and methods during one year, all admitte...

abstract background breast carcinoma is uncommon in women under 25 and very rare in less than 20 years old. only few cases of infiltrating breast carcinoma have been reported and among them there was no report of medullary subtype. the purpose of this report is to determine clinical, histopathological and sonographic findings of large mass in breast of young female patient that diagnosed as med...

background:   objective: the objective of the present study was to evaluate the application of two dimensional ultrasound (2-dus) and real time three dimensional ultrasound (3-dus) in differentiating various type of septated uterus. hysteroscopy confirmation was assigned as the gold standard.   materials and methods: this retrospective study was performed among 215 infertile women with suspecte...

nodular fasciitis of the breast is a rare benign pathology of soft tissue that is a consequence of fibroblastic hyperplasia within breast. it can mimic breast cancer clinically, radiologically, and histopathologically. a-43 year-old female with a painless mass within upper-lateral quadrant of her left breast complained of rapid and progressive growth during previous few days. no evidence of nip...

background in stable patients with blunt abdominal trauma, accurate diagnosis of visceral injuries is crucial. objectives to determine whether repeating ultrasound exam will increase the sensitivity of focused abdominal sonography for trauma (fast) through revealing additional free intraperitoneal fluid in patients with blunt abdominal trauma. patients and methods we performed a prospective obs...

conclusion according to the results of our series, percutaneous liver biopsy using the tru-cut biopsy gun guided by ultrasonography can be performed safely. we resolve that routine ultrasound of the puncture site is a quick, effective and safe procedure. the complication rate is very low. the us-assisted percutaneous liver biopsy should be used for all cases. results a total of 1018 patients we...

background: in this study, we used a new computerized analytical method for the measurement of the endothelial function in sequential ultrasound images and compared it with histological studies, using the abdominal aorta in normal and atherosclerotic rabbits. methods: six rabbits received a standard rabbit chow as the normal group and the other 6 rabbits were fed a high cholesterol diet for fou...

objective ultrasonography is among the most general evaluating methods for central nervous system (cns) assessment, especially for detecting extra axial collection via anterior fontanel. there are few studies showing values of this technique in normal developing infants for detection of subarachnoid space width. association between age and sex and cerebrospinal fluid (csf) spaces are controvers...

ultrasonography is a relatively easy, safe and non-invasive examination method which can be used in diagnosis of ocular disorders as complementary to routine ophthalmic examinations. as there has been no collated study undertaken on the normal measurements of ocular structures in caspian miniature horse, obtaining these measurements could be a benchmark to diagnose some of the diseases and eye ...