A 13-year-old girl presented with a history of not being well during the past six months. The ultrasound examination showed an epigastric mass, which was diagnosed as a bezoar within the stomach in upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. The patient was managed by operative evacuation. It was interesting that such a large bezoar did not cause any significant obstruction for the patient.

Development of rod optic endoscope ushered new leap in diagnosis and management in rhinology [1,2]. Endoscopy enables examination of nasal and sinus cavities far better and in detail than the traditional anterior rhinoscopy. Endoscopy is particularly valuable in evaluating inflammatory state. An experience in relative merits of nasal endoscopy use versus anterior rhinoscopy toward quick and cor...

Objectives: The narrow band imaging endoscopy (NBI) is an imaging method used by otolaryngologists for the examination of oral cavity, pharynx and larynx. Our present study was designed to determine the effectiveness of NBI in the examination of the inferior turbinate hypertrophy status. Study Design: Individual cohort study. Methods: A hundred and nine patients with enlarged inferior nasal con...

a total of360 iranian combatants who were exposed to mustard gas by the iraqi forces in the war fronts were studied. acute effects and gastrointestinal (gi) complications of sulfur mustard (s m) intoxication were studied separately in iranian combatants admitted to imam reza hospital from january 1984, to may 198x, in order to record the clinical and paraclinical findings, a special examination...

OBJECTIVES To examine the sensitivity and specificity of history, physical examination, and radiologic studies as predictors of foreign body aspiration in children. STUDY DESIGN Case series with chart review. SETTING Tertiary care children's hospital. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Medical records were reviewed for 102 children who presented to our institution from 2006 to 2013 with suspected forei...

Treatment of perianal fistulas in Crohn's disease should be defined on an individual basis. A combined medical and surgical approach is the optimal treatment. Adequate management of perianal fistula disease is based on the presence or absence of active proctitis, anatomic location, and fistula type. Furthermore, the presence of perianal abscesses must be ruled out. This evaluation includes digi...

deficiency anemia had a medical examination in May 2002. She was diagnosed as having anisakiasis after upper endoscopy of the antrum of the stomach, and a worm was removed. Three years later, an upper endoscopy showed several worms in the first and second portions of the duodenum, but there were no symptoms. Ten live worms were removed using standard biopsy forceps and were identified by micros...