Hydatid cyst is an important endemic zoonosis in Iran. It may be seen in various organs of body. Musculoskeletal system is rarely involved by hydatid cyst, the larval form of Echinococcus granulosus. On clinical basis, it may resemble any soft tissue tumor. A 70-years old housewife living in Ardoghesh, a village in Neyshabur, northeast Iran, was admitted to general surgery clinic because of a p...

350 six months. The same lesion had gradually increased to attain the present size. Family and personal history were not contributory. Dermatological examination revealed two skin lesions on the medial aspect of the right thigh [Figure 1]. The larger one was 6 × 7 cm in size and smaller one was 1 × 3 cm in size. Both were firm in consistency, non-tender, mobile on the underlying structure, caul...

Intradural lumbar cystic schwannomas are a very rare entity and only 10 case reports have been reported in the literature. The diagnosis and management remains a challenge for clinical physicians. Herein, we report a 51-year-old female presenting with lower back pain and radiating pain at the left upper thigh. Magnetic resonance images of lumbar spine demonstrated an intradural cystic mass appr...

BACKGROUND The usefulness of magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS)-based techniques for assessment of human body composition has not been established. OBJECTIVE We compared a proton MRS-based technique with the total body water (TBW) method to determine the usefulness of the former technique for assessment of human body composition. DESIGN Proton magnetic resonance spectra of the chest to a...

INTRODUCTION Obesity has been considered a chronic subclinical inflammation. High sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) and fibrinogen are increasingly associated with cardiovascular risk. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the ability of anthropometric and body composition indicators in discriminating higher levels of hs-CRP and fibrinogen. METHODS 130 men (20-59 years) were assessed, having measure...

OBJECTIVE To compare fat distribution and associations between fat depots and cardiometabolic traits in South Asians and Europeans. METHODS Five hundred and fourteen South Asians and 669 Europeans, aged 56-86. Questionnaires, record review, blood testing, and coronary artery calcification scores provided diabetes and clinical plus subclinical coronary heart disease (CHD) diagnoses. Abdominal ...

Due to the significant morbidity and mortality associated with pharyngocutaneous fistula in pharyngoesophageal reconstruction following cancer resection, the purpose of this retrospective study is to examine the selection of tubed skin flaps that impact anastomotic integrity. The flaps evaluated included radial forearm flap versus anterolateral thigh flap, and fasciocutaneous anterolateral thig...

This paper proposes a mass-spring model of a human thigh based on real data acquired. It addresses both the difficulties of determining the parameters of this model to fit the measurements and the computational demands. Implicit integmtion is used to update the model through time. The motivation behind this work is to provide accumte force-feedback for an echographic simulator that could be use...

We report on a 46-year-old woman with a sciatic nerve schwannoma. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a well-defined, lobulated, intensely enhancing mass posterior to the left hip joint along the left sciatic nerve suggestive of neurogenic tumour. The Tinnel sign was positive on the posterior aspect of the left thigh. The tumour was excised without neural damage. Postoperatively, the patient sh...

We investigated the degree of local heat and swelling of the thigh muscles produced by exercise. Eleven university athletes aged from 19 to 23 years old performed isokinetic exercise of the right knee on a Cybex II. Then serial determination of thigh circumference and thigh temperature (up to 120 min after exercise) as well as serial magnetic resonance (MR) imaging (up to 60 min after exercise)...