simindaneshvar is the first iranian  femalenovelist in persian literature and her famous novel, savushun, gives her a place beside othersuperioriranian writers and novelists. female perspective in savushun caused its eternitybecause it is the first novel that is written and published by a woman. although the woman is victim of patriarchy in iranian novels generally, both simindaneshvarand her h...


 This study looked at public reactions by analyzing comments posted to Facebook regarding the movement for freedom in Iran and protests that erupted after death of an Iranian woman. A content analysis 60 revealed between November 9 16 2022, four prevalent themes emerged. These included: fear, women, support, arguments. The most frequently mentioned theme was arguments category, making up ...

BACKGROUND Wilson disease is an autosomal recessive disorder of copper transport and is characterized by excessive accumulation of cellular copper in the liver and other tissues because of impaired biliary copper excretion and disturbed incorporation of copper into ceruloplasmin. Hepatic failure and neuronal degeneration are the major symptoms of Wilson disease. Mutations in the ATP7B gene are ...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide (Mousavi et al., 2009). The disease embraces 22.9% of invasive cancers and 16% of whole females’ cancers (Sariego et al., 2010; Robb et al., 2007). According to the age of new breast cancer cases, the incidence of the disease has increased in a steady way from the mid 1940’s (Aronowitz, 2007). Breast cancer, with the highest level of...

We report a 33-year-old Iranian woman with widespread ulcerative lesions in the setting of lepromatous leprosy. We think that the sudden appearance of the characteristic necrotic lesions in the absence of fever and other systemic manifestation, and in accordance with epidermal necrosis and the presence of large numbers of AFB in the endothelium are all in favor of the diagnosis of Lucio's pheno...

Sarcoidosis is a multi-systemic disease, the diagnosis of which depends on the presence of non-necrotising granulomas in a biopsy specimen. However, variants such as necrotising sarcoid granuloma make it difficult to differentiate the disease from other infectious processes, especially tuberculosis. Here the authors describe the case of a 58-year-old Iranian woman who developed granulomas with ...

Parathyroid hormone-related protein producing pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors have been infrequently reported. Herein, we report a case of an Iranian woman who had such a tumor during pregnancy, and gave birth to a female neonate with esophago-tracheal fistula and imperforated anus. Hypercalcemia was diagnosed at postpartum because of elevated serum calcium levels in the neonate and neurologic...

Received February 2007 Accepted August 2007 INTRODUCTION There is a broad spectrum of neurogenic tumors involving the abdominal organs. These tumors can be classified as those originating from the ganglion cells (ganglioneuroblastoma, ganglioneuroma, neuroblastoma), paraganglionic system (pheochromocytoma, paraganglioma), and nerve sheaths (neurilemmoma, malignant nerve sheath tumor, neurofibro...

Hemoglobin (Hb) H disease is a moderate form of α- thalassemia resulting from various genetic defects. HbH disease is not necessarily a benign disorder as has been generally thought. We present hereby a 25- year-old Iranian pregnant woman whom referred to our hospital for blood transfusion. She exhibited the clinical and hematological manifestation of HbH disease. Her father carries a common α-...