background: one way of developing nursing education is using of new teaching methods. one of this student based method that has been introduced recently is case-based teaching method. so the aim of this study was to assess the opinion of nursing student about case-based teaching method and comparison with lecture in zanjan faculty of nursing and midwifery in 2011.   methods: this is a quasiexpe...

introduction deformities of the uvula are considered as the dark area of otorhinolaryngology practice. this little and plain part of the human organism has various functions and its abnormalities might cause serious disabilities. case presentation in our case report, we present a unique deformity of the uvula in a 56-year-old woman. discussion the aim of this report was to present a very rare c...

foreign body aspiration (fba) is a common and sometimes life-threatening problem in children and in higher age groups. fba highest incidence rate is during the second year in children and the sixth decade of life in adults, and often foreign bodies due to their shape and size pass through larynx and trachea and place in bronchi. the most common aspirated body by children are nuts. symptoms of a...

parents who have a baby with infantile colic experienced a different thought and emotions such as hopelessness, fatigue and impasses. in this study, our living experience as a professional nursing parents' are represented with new relieving modality for infantile colic. herein, we report a new relieving dietary protocol for a colicky infant with non- immunoglobulin e – mediated protein ind...

spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma (sshe) is a rare entity can have several reasons. its prevalence in population is 0.1 per 100,000 with the male to female ratio of 1/4:1. for the first time jackson in 1869 reported a case of sshe and after that it was declared as several hundred cases in literatures. here, a case of sshe was reported in a 52 year-old male referred to emergency department fo...

background: to determine the risk factor for acute diarrhea disease in children. methods: in the survey, 220 cases and 220 controls were involved. cases were children with loose watery feces, pathologically diagnosed as acute diarrhea by the physician, and enrolled from the emergency ward as the incident cases in dr. sheykh hospital, mashhad, northeast of iran. control group too, was enrolled f...

background: a crucial part of a case-control study is the selection of a sample of controls that represent the base-popula­tion from which cases were drawn. controls may be matched to cases by one or more potentially important confounding vari­ables, such as socioeconomic status. in the united kingdom, one method for control selection has been based on the pa­tient list of the general practice ...

Congenital or neonatal rhabdomyosarcoma is a rare entity, usually presenting as masses in the head and neck region as well as genitourinary tract. The embryonal variant is the most common type occurring in infancy. This is a case of congenital rhabdomyosarcoma with a huge forearm mass, with metastatic discrete nodules in the soft tissues of the neck and scapular region, resembling a ‘blueberry ...