Background: Tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) are a heterogeneous group of neoplasms with different prevalence in different sex and age groups and various parts of CNS. Objectives: Determining the relative frequency of different types of CNS tumors in different ages, sex and CNS anatomical locations. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study was performed using pathological repor...

computed tomography (ct) is now the primary diagnostic method for head trauma because of its ability to demonstrate the nature, extent, sites, and multiplicity of brain injuries. although there have been numerous reports on the ct findings of most types of intracranial injury, the findings in brainstem injury have not been well described. this study aimed at comparing the autopsy findings of br...

Obesity is a Health issue around the world. Obesity is not limited to body weight, generally associated with low grade inflammation and with a cluster of disorders generally referred to as "metabolic syndrome". Regarding obesity and relapse, long-term concentration was set on the hypothalamus. Most recently,obesity- Originated neuroinflammation has been shown to affect other brain str...

brain foreign bodies and penetrating missile injuries of the brain are familiar topics for iranian physicians, especially after iran and iraq war. but it’s not easily plausible that there is a couple of sewing needles in the cranium of a patient who has not any history of head trauma or penetrating injury. the patient was a 42-year-old man who admitted in neurology ward of mottahari hospital in...