BACKGROUND Neuroblastoma is the third most common malignancy in children with a very heterogeneous feature. In this study, the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of children with neuroblastoma treated in a referral oncology hospital in Shiraz, Southern Iran, were investigated. MATERIAL AND METHOD In this historical cohort study, the medical files of 36 children under 18 years old wi...

We report a 23-year-old man and three members of his family with Hb J-Iran confirmed by electrophoresis, chain separation by high performance liquid chromatography and sequencing. Alpha thalassemia was also confirmed in two family members. The substitution at β77 led to a higher negative charge of the βJ-Iran subunit, which enhanced its electrostatic attraction for the normal positively-charged...

M. Reza Rahimi Tabar, Fatemeh Ghasemi, J. Peinke, R. Friedrich, Kamran Kaviani, F. Taghavi, S. Sadeghi, G. Bijani, and Muhammad Sahimi Department of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, P.O. Box 11365-9161, Tehran 11365, Iran CNRS UMR 6529, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, BP 4229, 06304 Nice Cedex 4, France Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, P.O. Box 19395-5531, ...

BACKGROUND Blood and body fluid exposures place healthcare workers at risk for blood-borne infections. To determine the extent of the problem in Iran, we assessed blood and body fluid exposure in healthcare workers in Fars Province hospitals. METHODS We distributed 2,118 questionnaires using a stratified random sampling method among nurses of these hospitals. We used Chi-square test, Student'...

Dear Editor, Admission to intensive care unit (ICU) is potentially a stressful experience for both the patients and their families. In addition to pain and severity of the critical diseases, sleeplessness, immobility and overwhelming noises from ICU equipments, anxiety from overhearing the stranger and unfamiliar conversations of the staff and visitors about the patients' conditions, psychologi...

The aim of this study was to determine the demographic characteristics of burnt children in need of hospitalization, causes of burns and associated complications in Fars province, Iran. This is a retrospective cross-sectional study. Files of all children under 15 years of age who were hospitalized in the only burn referral centre of Fars province were evaluated. Data regarding age, gender, loca...

BACKGROUND Rodents play important role as host of ectoparasites and reservoir of different zoonotic diseases. The aim of this study was to asses the infestation of commensal rodents with ectoparasites in Bandar Abbas, a port city located in the northern part of the Persian Gulf in Iran. METHODS Rodents were captured using live traps during the study period in year 2007. After transferring the...

OBJECTIVE Leukemia is the most prevalent type of cancer in children. The aim of this study was to estimate the 5-year survival rates of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) and Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia (AML) as well as factors influencing them. METHODS This is a nonrandomized retrospective study conducted on 280 patients with ALL and AML. They were all below 15 years old children admitted to...

BACKGROUND Although, there have been extensive research on the motivations driving patient to undergo cosmetic procedures, there is still a big question mark on the persuasive factors which may lead individuals to undergo cosmetic surgery. The present study evaluated various factors affecting patients undergoing cosmetic surgery in Bushehr, Southern Iran. METHODS From 24th March 2011 to 24th ...