BACKGROUND Management pain in hospitalized children is challenging for the health-care professionals. Nurses have the most interactions with children who need to assess and manage for their pain. Therefore, the aim was to describe nurses' experiences from pain management among hospitalized children from Iranian culture in this study. METHODS A phenomenological study was conducted in which 23 ...

This paper is the third and final one in a sequence of three. All three papers emphasize that a proposition can be justified by an infinite regress, on condition that epistemic justification is interpreted probabilistically. The first two papers showed this for one-dimensional chains and for one-dimensional loops of propositions, each proposition being justified probabilistically by its precurs...

Lymphoepithelial cysts of the pancreas are extremely rare, benign, nonneoplastic cysts that may simulate pseudocysts or cystic neoplasm of the pancreas. Endosonographic and cytologic features of pancreatic lymphoepithelial cysts are poorly characterized because of their rarity. However, appropriate prospective diagnosis of pancreatic lymphoepithelial cysts using endoscopic ultrasound-guided fin...

Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is regarded as the gold standard investigation in diagnosis & managment of thyroid swellings , also distinguish benign and malignant lesions, especially to rule out need of surgery. To study role of FNAC in Thyroid lesions.2) To correlate the cytological findings with histopathological diagnosis. A Total of 79 patients with Thyroid swellings submitted for ...

INTRODUCTION Foreign-body (FB) aspiration in the airway of children is a life-threatening clinical situation responsible for many deaths each year. The aim of this study was to evaluate the different clinical presentations, methods of diagnosis, types and complications of FB inhalation in the pediatric age group. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study included patients who presented with a definitiv...

Objective: This study aimed to propose a formula for predicting the biological nature of thyroid nodules, thus helping in clinical decision making and avoiding unnecessary surgery. Patients and methods: Prospective, longitudinal and observational study was conducted on 400 patients submitted to primary thyroid surgery at the Department of Surgery, University of Pisa, Italy, between April 1st an...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary tuberculosis can produce unusual radiographic appearances and negative results of sputum and bronchoscopic examinations are common. This study assessed the value of ultrasound guided aspiration biopsy in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis with unusual radiographic appearances. METHODS Thirteen patients, ultimately diagnosed as having tuberculosis, underwent a chest u...

Mandibular swellings can be caused by many benign lesions of odontogenic or non-odontogenic origin. The most common tumor of odontogenic origin is ameloblastoma which develops from epithelial cellular elements and dental tissues in various stages of development. It is a benign, yet locally aggressive intraosseous odontogenic tumor occurring most often in the mandible followed by maxilla (1). It...

Background and Study Aims: Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) associated with untreated HCC are almost always malignant, still benign portal vein thrombus should be considered as well, This study was designed to study the value of ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration cytology in the differential diagnosis of portal vein thrombosis. Patients and Methods: This study included 20 patients with chroni...