Life-threatening medical emergencies are an infrequent but regular occurrence on the football field. Proper prevention strategies, emergency medical planning and timely access to emergency equipment are required to prevent catastrophic outcomes. In a continuing commitment to player safety during football, this paper presents the FIFA Medical Emergency Bag and FIFA 11 Steps to prevent sudden car...

Rising life expectancy and declining birth rates are ageing the population of most developed countries all over the world. As a result, in a few years there will be a large portion of senior citizens in our society, therefore, it is more important than ever to figure out ways to improve their well-being and quality of life. Unfortunately, older adults require health care services more than othe...

  Background: Melanoma causes the greatest morbidity and mortality of all skin cancers. Mucosal melanoma is a rare but highly aggressive neoplasm. According to previous studies the prevalence of KIT mutations in acrallentiginous and mucosal melanomas is relatively low (less than 15–20%), but it can have profound therapeutic implications for localized high risk or metastatic diseases. Our goal w...

The bag of visual words model has been widely used in contentbased image retrieval. However, when it is applied to medical domain, it potentially has several limitations, e.g., some ordinary feature descriptors may not be able to capture the subtle characteristics of medical images; there is a semantic gap between the low-level features and the medical concepts; the emerging multi-modal data po...

background: gastrointestinal stromal tumor (gist) is the most common mesenchymal neoplasm of the gastrointestinal tract. they are believed to originate from the interstitial cells of cajal. most of these tumors contain activating mutations in the kit receptor tyrosine kinase. this is the first study in iran to evaluate gists at the molecular level. methods: in the present study, during 5 years ...

A black bag, needed especially for home visits, has been used since the time of Hippocrates who, in his treatise "On good manners", gave the first detailed description of a medical bag with guidelines for the required equipment and structure. Ancient Egyptian and Palestinian references also date back at least two millenniums.

INTRODUCTION Operating on an enlarged spleen via the laparoscopic approach presents several challenges. A homemade bag may facilitate retrieval of the enlarged spleen assisted by a laparoscope and save medical expense. AIM To assess the feasibility and safety of laparoscopic splenectomy for moderate or massive splenomegaly using our technique and a homemade retrieval bag. MATERIAL AND METHO...