Background: Appendicovesical fistula in patients suffering from cystic fibrosis is a rare condition. Although this situation is so rare it should be considered in the differential diagnosis, dealing with a patient with cystic fibrosis and chronic abdominal pain with no response to primary management. To the best of our knowledge, this is the third case of appendicovesical fistula in a patient w...

Cystic fibrosis is the most common autosomal recessive hereditary disease in white populations. It characterized by formation of abnormal secretions exocrine glands located sweat and salivary glands, tracheobronchial tree, large intestine, pancreas. The severity clinic depends on type "cystic transmembrane regulatory protein" gene mutation. Although cases are diagnosed infancy or childhood, som...

adenoid cystic carcinoma is an uncommon, slow growing malignant salivary gland tumor that is characterized by wide local infiltration, perineural spread, propensity to local recurrence anddistant metastasis. in this paper, the authors present a case of adenoid cystic carcinoma affecting the palate and involving the maxillary sinus in a 60‑year‑old male patient along with a brief reviewof litera...

Introduction:Most metastatic lymph nodes from head and neck malignancy are solid. Cystic nodes are found in 33% - 61% of carcinomas arise from Waldeyer’s ring, of which only 1.8% - 8% originate are from the nasopharynx. Some cystic cervical metastases were initially presumed to be branchial cleft cyst. This case report aims to highlight the unusual presentation of cystic cervical metastasis sec...

Introduction: A hydatid cyst of the head and neck is a very rare condition, even in areas where Echinococcus infestation is endemic.   Case Report: We report a rare case of primary hydatid cyst of the right maxillary sinus in a 40-year-old man. The initial diagnosis of the presence of a cystic mass was the result of physical examination and computed tomography (CT) scan. We resected the cystic ...

background and objectives: cystic fibrosis (cf) is an autosomal recessive genetic disease.  infections in these patients gene.are  mostly  caused  by  three  bacteria:  staphylococcus  aureus ,  haemophilus  influenza and  particularly  pseudomonas aeruginosa .  carbapenems including antibiotics are used to combat infections with pseudomonas aeruginosa . in recent years, carbapenems resistant s...

background cystic fibrosis is a complex progressive disease which assessing its progression and severity is essential. for this purpose there are scoring systems available to evaluate the disease severity. objectives the aim of the present study was to determine the clinical status of cf patients using shwachman score system in the pediatric pulmonary ward of masih daneshvari hospital. patients...

Congenital cystic Adenomatoid malformation is a rare developmental abnormality of the lung occuring in 1-4/100000 live births.In most cases the outcome with CCAM in fetus is very good,while in some cases the outcome is very bad and can be life threatning for the fetus.we report here a case of 40 day old female infant who presented with worsening respiratory distress since birth and x ray and CT...