bezoars are concretions of foreign materials that impair gastrointestinal motility or cause intestinal obstruction in the stomach, small intestine or bowel of humans or animals. there are many types of them such as phyto, lacto and trichobezoars. although bezoars are not rare, multiple giant bezoars which totally fill the stomach lumen and have extension to the small intestine (rapunzel syndrom...

background :    salmonellosis is an infectious and a food-borne disease of humans and animals. the initial source of the infection is the intestinal tracts of birds and other animals. apparently healthy animals can become subclinical carriers and persistently shed salmonella in their feces which can act as a reservoir for the pathogen. the aim of this study is to detect the carriers of salmonel...

intestinal tuberculosis is an uncommon presentation of tuberculosis (tb) and has clinicopathological similarities with crohn's disease. in regions where tb is endemic clinicians must aware of this condition and fully evaluate their patients when crohn's disease is diagnosed. we recommend all pathologic specimens be evaluate effectively for tb.smear,culture and pcr for mycobacterium.tuberculosis...

intussusception is common cause of bowel obstruction in the paediatric age group compared to the elderly population. many times, the diagnosis may be difficult because of asymptomatic nature of this bowel disorder. we hereby describe the case of a 75-year-old male who presented with lethargy, weakness, loss of movement in the joints and was found to be anemic. the haemoglobin level was low so h...

conclusions callus distraction is an effective and reliable method for lengthening short phalangeal, metacarpal, and metatarsal bones. it also preserves periosteal tissue. our distractor is reliable, cheap, lightweight, user friendly, and highly effective for callotasis. background this study was performed to evaluate the results of finger lengthening following traumatic amputation or congenita...

aims: the backbone of treatment in advanced non-small cell lung cancer is platinum-based doublet chemotherapy. we intended to compare the effectiveness of two commonly used regimens in real world practice. methods: this single institute, parallel comparative post marketing study included 100 patients with chemo-naïve advanced (stage iiib, iv) non-small cell lung cancer and eastern cooperative o...

background: prognosis of small intestine artesia, the most common agents causing intestinal obstruction in neonates, has improved in last decades. some variable such as weight change, type of feeding, post operation oral feeding starting time, and adequacy of energy and protein intake can change patients clinical outcomes. we performed a retrospective study to evaluate all neonates with small i...

the persian morpheme ra has attracted the attention of many linguists including karimi (1989), dabir-moghaddam (1990) and ghomeshi (1996) among others. karimi takes ra as the accusative case marker, the presence of which on subjects and objects of prepositions render the sentence ungrammatical. according to ghomeshi (1996), it marks dps functioning as vp-level topics. dabir-moghaddam (1990) ana...

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