objective the mortality of patients with locally advanced triple-negative breast cancer (tnbc) is high, and pathological complete response (pcr) to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (nac) is associated with improved prognosis. this retrospective study was designed and powered to investigate the ability of 18f-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (fdg-pet/ct) to predict pat...

various studies suggest that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (ssris) may be useful in treating pathological skin picking (psp). this study sought to assess effectiveness of citalopram in comparison with placebo in treating psp. forty five individuals with psp were recruited in a four-week, randomized clinical trial of citalopram (20 mg/day) in comparison with placebo. study measures ass...

malignancy and tumor in ent are less common but more important, also they have not any certain sign until they progress thus it will be so important that we consider some abnormal common signs when we are examine patients until do not miss them, this study was conducted to establish the various clinical modes of presentation of pharyngeal neoplasm and their correlation with final histopathologi...

background and aims: infectious bronchitis (ib), caused by infectious bronchitis virus (ibv), is an acute and highly contagious disease in chickens. ibv is considered mainly as a respiratory infection, other clinical manifestations, including renal, enteric and reproductive signs can be observed. since there has been no study on evaluation of changes in biochemical parameters during ib infectio...

background: the internet addiction, also described as pathological internet use (piu), is conceptualized by an individual's in­ability to control his or her use of the internet, which eventually causes marked distress and/or functional impairment. the aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of the piu among adolescence, in relation to different internet ac­tivities, and to ex...

In this paper we addressed the issue of classifying pathological voices from normal ones based on two different parameters, spectral slope and ratio of energies in harmonic and noise components (HNR), and artificial neural network (ANN). Voice data from normal peoples and patients were collected, then diagnosed and classified into three different categories (normal, relatively less noisy and se...

Micropapillary breast carcinoma has been recognized as a morphologically and biologically distinct form of breast carcinoma. Although data suggest that patient outcomes in cases of micropapillary breast carcinoma do not differ significantly from other breast carcinomas, the impact that a micropapillary component might have on the pathological work-up of a case of breast carcinoma remains an imp...