myelolipoma, a rare benign non-functioning neoplasm, is composed of mature adipose tissue and bone marrow elements. its most common location is adrenal gland; however, extra-adrenal cases have been also reported. it is found in only 0.2% of all autopsies; 96% of the reported cases were detected on postmortem examination. the surgical symptomatic cases having been reported so far are few. in thi...

background: mycobacterium tuberculosis is a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. infection with this bacterium is known to induce the development of autoantibodies of which a few are also known to be diagnostic markers for some other diseases. antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (anca's) are among those autoantibodies used in clinical setting for diagnosing systemic vasculit...

SUMMARY A review of out patients diagnosed with rickets during last one and half year revealed 135 cases of rickets among totally 1550 patients refered to our pediatric infectious clinics. Diagnosis were made by the clinical, biochemical, radiological and pathological findings. All the patients were treated by Vit D as needed, follow up examinations were done at least for 6m. We could not see ...

conversion of knee arthrodesis to total knee arthroplasty is a difficult procedure accompanied by many complications due to soft tissue and extensor mechanism contracture and bone defects. we report two cases of distal femur osteosarcoma that had been undergone wide resection arthrodesis initially. arthrodesis was converted to total knee arthroplasty with hinged prosthesis after many years. we ...

Introduction: Malignant mesenchymal tumors of the larynx are rare. One type of malignant mesenchymal tumor is synovial sarcoma with unknown histogenesis, which occurs predominantly in the lower extremities of young adults. The head and neck region is a relatively rare location. There are few cases of malignant mesenchymal tumors with laryngeal localization in literature.  Case Report: In this r...

Aims: psoriasis is a common immune related skin disorder which affects 2-3% of worldwide people. It has different types and involves most parts of skin, and nail. It also sometimes affects joints and internal organs. Few studies have been conducted on the characteristics of psoriasis in Iran. The purpose of this study was to determine the disease characteristics of psoriasis patients in the gen...

lipomas are rare benign soft tissue mesenchymal neoplasms in the oral cavity, representing 1% of all benign oral tumors. fibrolipoma (fl), an uncommon, histological variant of the classic lipoma, mostly affects the buccal mucosa. very few cases of fl have been reported in the english literature. to the best of our knowledge a review of the english literature showed 33 cases of fl affecting the ...