schwannomas are benign neoplasms with unknown etiology, which apparently arise from neural sheath schwann cells. intraoral schwannomas are solitary, slow-growing lesions occurring at different ages; these lesions are normally asymptomatic and in some cases, they are accompanied by pain and paresthesia if spotted in the intraosseous regions of the mandibles. definitive diagnosis of schwannoma is...

aim: breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. this comparative study was designed to investigate the knowledge, attitude, and practice of medical and non-medical female students concerning breast self-examination (bse) in two different universities in shiraz, iran. it also examined the relationship between the students' knowledge, attitude, practice and type of academic ed...

background and aim: breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. early diagnosis of breast cancer is extremely effective in its treatment. the aim of this study was to investigate the impacts of education on breast self-examination knowledge, attitude, and practice among female employees of birjand university, birjand, iran.   materials and methods: this one-group pretest-posttest quasi...

conclusions it seems serial clinical examinations are safe and decrease the cost and duration of hospitalization in stable patients with anterior abdominal wall stab wounds. results ninety-one men (91%) and 9 women (9%) with mean age of 27 ± 10.7 years were included. coexisting injuries were prevalent in 12 cases. the duration of hospitalization was 1 day in 31%, 2 days in 30%, 3 - 4 days in 32...

objective: to evaluate the role of physical examination in decision making for exploring patients with penetrating zone ii neck injury. methods: this was a cross-sectional study being performed in a level i trauma center between 2006 and 2010. the present study reviewed the records of 150 patients with penetrating neck injuries. of 46 cases with zone ii deep platysma neck injuries, 3 patients d...

evaluation of the psychiatry residency graduates knowledge and competencies has traditionally relied on the individual patient assessment (ipa) method (1,2). however, this method is unreliable and its outcome depends to a large extent on the luck of the draw (3-5). past research has shown that objective structured clinical examination (osce) method has many advantages over ipa (6-9). as a resul...