objective(s): appendicitis remains the most common condition in the pediatric population requiring emergency abdominal operation. management of acute simple appendicitis is well described but controversy remains as to the optimal treatment of complicated appendicitis. common complications of acute appendicitis include: localized peritonitis and abscess formation, flegmon and general peritonitis...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the frequency of adverse events and possible risk factors after the administration of an intravenous contrast medium (CM), iobitridol, in a large multicentre postmarketing surveillance study. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 49,975 patients undergoing intravenous urography were included in this study. A water-soluble, non-ionic CM (iobitridol, 1 ml/kg body weight) was adm...

Currently the radiologist’s clinical practice is generally structured as follows: if a lesion previously detected via computer tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and is also monitored using ultrasound (US) should be reevaluated or biopsied, the examiner first examines the static CT or MRI data records on an imaging console in order to get a solid impression of the morphology an...

introduction:  clinical settings and teaching methods play a key role in students' learning. so, the present study aimed to investigates the effect of holding special training rounds on performance of pediatric residents. methods: this quasi-experimental study was conducted on 30 residents. they were randomly divided into two case (n=15) and control (n=15) groups. two groups received prete...

abdominal masses in neonatal period is one of the main causes of patients bed ridden in infantal surgery wards. the rapid encounterance with these patients has caused a decrease in mortality and morbidity. this study is a kind of historical research which has been conducted on data base management systems of two above mentioned hospitals between years 1361-1378. the final outcome was only 25 ca...

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minor trauma to the head is common in childhood and does not require any medical or surgical treatment. nevertheless, head injury in infancy and childhood is the single most common cause of death and permanent disability. measurable deficits occur even after mild to moderate head injury but are markedly greater after severe injury. they include impaired cognition, motor impairments, disruption ...

Introduction The abdominal aorta begins at 12th thoracic vertebra, and it descends anterior to the lumbar vertebrae, and bifurcates at the 4th lumbal vertebral body. It supplies all the abdominal organs, abdominal walls, gonads, and lower extremity [1]. In the usual vasculature, celiac trunk is divided into three branches: common hepatic artery (CHA), splenic artery (SA), and left gastric arter...

background: acute drug poisoning remains an important public health problem and represents the second most frequent accidental disease in children. in this study, we identified epidemiological and clinical features of children admitted for acute drug poisoning and related factors associated with suicidal poisoning. methods: we conducted a retrospective study in the department of pediatrics, the...

amyloidosis of the upper aerodigestive tract is rare in the pediatric age group. we present two cases of pediatric laryngeal amyloidosis. both of them had hoarseness as the presenting symptom. diagnostic evaluation included flexible nasopharyngoscopy, rigid laryngoscopy, biopsy, computed tomography scan and laboratory tests. the results of congo red staining of the specimen were characteristic ...