in an attempt to assess objectively the integrity of the auditory pathways in 30 patients with definite multiple sclerosis (ms), an audiometric evaluation was performed and auditory brainstem responses (abrs) were obtained. stressing the auditory system by increasing the stimulation rate showed some enhancement in the identification of ms. 24 (ro%) patients had an abnormal abr along with clinic...

twin reversed arterial perfusion (trap) sequence is a syndrome with poor prognosis, seen only in monochorionic monozygotic twin pregnancies. the incidence is one in 35.000 births and one in 100 monozygotic twin pregnancies. it is characterized with a recipient fetus exhibiting lethal anomalies including acardia and a pump fetus. mortality is usually due to heart failure or premature labor cause...

uterine leiomyoma is the most common benign tumor of genital tract. the etiology of myomas is unknown. leiomyoma shows a broad spectrum of radiographic appearances depending on the number, size, and location of the tumor. the diagnostic method for uterine leiomyomas is based primarily on the clinical situation. despite of the varied diagnostic options such as; transvaginal sonography, sonohyste...

background and aims: one of the most common injuries around the world is the traumatic injury of the spine and spinal cord with unknown worldwide situation of traumatic spinal cord injury (tsci) affecting on the effectiveness of preventive policy programs. in addition, because of possibility of making paralysis, the potential injury to the spine could be one of the most important traumas and a ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Workup of incidental thyroid nodules detected on CT imaging could be contributing to the increased diagnosis of small thyroid cancers. The purpose of this study was to evaluate recent trends in the incidence of thyroid cancer, and to determine the relationship between annual CT imaging volume and rate of thyroid cancer diagnosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective...

in this paper we carried out an exact statistics on the basis of total admission due to abortions, with following results: 1- abortion incidence is 14 of total admissions. 2- 46.8 of abortions were between the 8th and 12th weeks of gestation. 3- 42,038 of the patients with abortion were 24 years old or younger (younger than 25 years of age). 4- the abortion incidence is equal in different blood...

background rabies has been reported as the most important endemic zoonotic disease in iran and still remains as a major public health problem. objectives the main objective of the current research was to study the epidemiology of animal bites in borujerd county in iran and to compare its prevalence to other parts of iran from april 2006 to september 2011. patients and methods the data were reco...