The aim of this study was to determine the ability of bronchial brushing in rapid diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in patients with negative sputum smear.this retrospective study was performed on 188 patients who were suspected of pulmonary tuberculosis and had undergone fiberoptic bronchoscopy during the period of 1990 to 1996 in Kerman university No.1 . Although their history, physical ...

OBJECTIVE To present a technical proposal based on the experience of 130 implantations using a simplified technique for coronary sinus catheterization, based on the atrial component of the intracavitary electrogram and radiological anatomy. METHODS From October, 2001 to October, 2004, 130 biventricular pacemaker implantations were performed, using radiological anatomy and observation of the i...

AIM This prospective randomized clinical study was conducted to compare radioguided occult lesion localization (ROLL) with wire-guided localization to evaluate optimum localization techniques for non-palpable breast lesions. METHODS A total of 108 patients who were undergoing an excisional biopsy for non-palpable breast lesions requiring pathologic diagnosis were randomly assigned to the ROLL...

background: vegetation (food stuff) is grown in soil that contains many radioactive elements such as 238u (uranium), 232th (thorium) and 40k (potassium), which may get deposited either due to radioactive fallout or/and by absorption from the soil and can pose serious health hazards. materials and methods: natural radioactivity, radiological hazards and annual effective dose assessment was carri...

cesium content and some other more radiologically important mineral elements were measuredby nuclear and non-nuclear analytical methods in iranian daily diets.this study was extended to a few moresimilar functioning elements such as sr, rb, i, k, mg and ca as well. though the 137cs and otherradionuclieds were not measured in these diets under planned regular investigation in this work, but inco...