BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to evaluate toxicity after extremely hypofractionated radiotherapy (EHF-RT) using a non-isocentric robotic radiosurgery system for early stage prostate cancer. METHODS Eligibility criteria of this feasibility study were 50 - 84 years old, and low-risk to intermediate-risk disease. The prescribed dose to the iso-dose line of 95% of planning target volume was...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the morbidity and mortality in patients with operable stage ii and iii rectal cancers within one or two months after surgery, who has been treated pre-operatively with short course radiotherapy. twenty-eight patients with rectal adenocarcinoma, consecutively referred to the cancer institute of imam khomeini hospital from march 2009 to march 2010, were selec...

bowel stent insertion has a variety of complications one major of which is colonic perforation. the purpose of this article is to reveal two cases with delayed colonic perforation after stent placement to relieve bowel obstruction caused by rectal cancer. the first patient was a 55 year-old man who was a candidate for stent placement to avoid palliative surgery and relieve his bowel obstruction...

The effects of octreotide on six normal subjects and five patients with scleroderma were investigated. Changes in intestinal motility and in plasma motilin were examined after a single injection of octreotide. Octreotide stimulated intense intestinal motor activity in normal subjects. Motility patterns in the scleroderma patients were chaotic and non-propagative, but, after octreotide was given...

A 69-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital because of anal bleeding and fatigue. The patient was previously diagnosed as having Evans' syndrome on the basis of hematological examination and had been treated with predonisolone for 8 years. On admission, severe anemia and thrombocytopenia were noted. Colonoscopy and Barium enema studies demonstrated an irregular tumor with hemorrhagic ulcer...

BACKGROUND Fever is the most common complaint in pediatric medicine and its treatment is recommended in some situations. Paracetamol is the most common antipyretic drug, which has serious side effects such as toxicity along with its positive effects. Diclofenac is one of the strongest non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAID) drugs, which has received little attention as an antipyretic drug. OB...

Animal models are critical tools for the preclinical evaluation of drugs. Yet in the HIV field, the value of such models for predicting the success of preventive drug and vaccination strategies in humans has been disappointing. For example, animal models were unable to predict the failure of vaginal microbicides in large clinical trials in humans [1,2]. However, two recently published studies h...