The clinical features of an infectious erythema which affected children and young people are described. Other writers have described the same disease and have suggested a viral origin. A cytological method is described which may establish the diagnosis, and the cytological appearances might also be useful in differentiating between erythema and measles.

Viruses are the most common causes of aseptic meningitis. Early detection, treatment and management of viral meningitis are priority. This study aimed to evaluate common viral meningitis in children referred to Taleghani pediatrics hospital in Gorgan, south east of Caspian Sea, Iran. In this descriptive study CSF and blood samples were taken from 40 children with negative bacterial culture who ...

Cytological information is absolutely lacking for the Iranian moss flora (Bryophytes). The present research, dealing with cytological studies on the following five species (including two expressions and one variety) of Iranian mosses, namely, Amblystegium riparium (Hedw.) B.S.G. “brevipes” expression(n=20), A. riparium (Hedw.) B.S.G. “pennellii” expression (n=9, 9+m, 9+2m), A. serpens (Hedw.) B...

OBJECTIVES Evaluation of the diagnostic efficiency of the intraoperative cytological examination of lymphatic nodes obtained during transcervical extended mediastinal lymphadenectomy (TEMLA). METHODS All mediastinal nodes obtained during consecutive TEMLA operations in patients with confirmed lung cancer were examined. Cytological imprints from cross sections of nodes were performed, fixed in...

OBJECTIVE To assess the possibility of using cytological examination and DNA image-analysis of testicular fine-needle aspirates instead of open surgical biopsy in the investigation of infertile men, as testicular biopsy has long been used for investigating infertility but the interpretation of histological slides is usually subjective. PATIENTS AND METHODS Thirty-three men (aged 22-36 years) ...

In a prospective evaluation of percutaneous Trucut needle biopsy for localised intrathoracic lesions in 89 patients histological specimens were obtained in 81. Malignancy was diagnosed in 66 cases. Subsequently definitive histological reports were available in 18 of these patients with complete concordance of malignant cell type. Sixteen patients had non-malignant histological appearances, whic...

The objective of the present study was to assess the presence of human papilloma virus (HPV) in HIV-infected women, with comparison between the Papanicolaou cytologic technique and the molecular PCR technique, as well as to determine the type of HPV, to measure cellular immunocompetence and to identify the presence of risk factors for the acquisition of HPV infection. Thirty HIV-infected women ...

This research objective is to identify cytomorphometrical changes using exfoliative cytology (EC) and later Papanicolaou (Pap) staining, for oral epithelial cells of patients with type 2 diabetes (DM2) (n = 30), while being compared to patients without the disease (n = 30). Additionally, we investigated an association between cellular changes and salivary flow levels; relationship that until no...

The in vivo administration of cortisone to rats induces the synthesis of specific classes of liver RNA (6, 7) and, consequently, gluconeogenic enzymes (13) . Nuclei (4) or isolated chromatin (2) obtained from in vivo coritsone-treated rat liver synthesize RNA in an in vitro system to a greater degree than nuclei or isolated chromatin from untreated controls. Nuclei or chromatin obtained from un...

Women patients admitted to a district general hospital with non-gynaecological conditions were offered a cervical smear test. In three years 2296 women were tested. Serious uterine pathology was detected in 13 patients (5.7 per 1000) and significant cytological abnormalities (dyskaryosis of all grades) in 46 (20.0 per 1000). Of the women screened 963 (41.9%) had never had a smear test before an...