background chronic sacroiliac (si) joint pain constitutes 16% to 30% of the total prevalence of chronic low back pain, which is commonly unilateral. apart from conservative management, various interventional pain management procedures have been reported. intraarticular deposteroid injection has been described as the most evidence-based, but different various radio frequency (rf) procedures have...

Multiple sclerosis is a severe disorder of the central nervous system. This chronic and progressive disease involves unpredictable episodes of inflammatory attacks. It can cause functional limitations, disability and reduced quality of life. Pain is a common and significant problem in lots of people with multiple sclerosis (MS). And it is inversely correlated with aspects of life quality in ind...

how to cite this article: karimi m, fallah r. a case report of congenital insensitivity to pain and anhidrosis (cipa). iran j child neurol 2012; 6(3): 45-48.   congenital insensitivity to pain and anhidrosis (cipa) or hereditary sensoryautonomic neuropathies type iv (hsan type iv) is an extremely rare autosomalrecessive disorder initially described by swanson in 1963.we report a 2.5-year-old bo...

dissection of the vertebral artery is an important but rare cause of cerebrovascular accidents. here we report a 48-year-old man with toothache since 4 days before who presented to the emergency department with neck pain and final diagnosis of dissecting right vertebral artery pseudoaneurysm. to our knowledge, this maybe the first report of odontogenic pain as the first manifestation of vertebr...

Brucellosis is a rare cause of acute acalculous cholecystitis.  We report a 45-year-old, previously healthy, man with brucellosis who presented with abdominal pain due to cholecystitis.