background: functional gastrointestinal disorders (fgids) entail several distinct conditions that collectively account for a sizeable proportion of patients complaining of abdominal pain. physicians' awareness is fundamental to avoid unnecessary evaluations and to alleviate stress-related problems. this study aimed to assess the relative frequencies of fgids and related categories in a selected...

introduction idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura is a platelet autoimmune hemostatic disorder. in this study, an itp case with abdominal signs and hemorrhagic corpus luteum is presented. case presentation the patient is a 28-year-old nonpregnant woman admitted to ed for constant acute abdominal pain, accompanied by nausea and vomiting. itp was the prominent disease in her medical history which ...

pneumonia is considered as the main cause of abdominal pain in children whereas it presents mostly by respiratory symptoms in adults. here we present a 71-year-old iranian female who complained specifically of abdominal pain on admission to our emergency department. we had found nothing as an etiology in our first evaluations. after several hours chest pain was added to the symptoms and the fol...

lead poisoning has several clinical manifestations so the diagnosis may be troublesome. these manifestations consist of anemia, neurologic abnormalities, liver and biliary tract problems and abdominal pain. not only opium addiction, but also lead toxicity can cause biliary tract problems.when both etiologies occur at the same time, the diagnosis is difficult. a 46 year old opium addicted man wi...

abstract autoimmune pancreatitis (aip) is a rare disorder that may be present as common bile duct stricture. the patient was a seventy-year-old man with presentations as recurrent abdominal pain and jaundice, elevated billirobin (bil) and elevated alkaline phosphatase (alkp) in association with the presence of hetrogenesity of the pancreatic head and dilated intra and extra hepatic bile ducts i...

background and aim: the aim of this study was to investigate the epidemiological features of colorectal cancer in imam reza hospital in kermanshah, iran, in a five-year period. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study included all the patients (n=167) admitted to imam reza hospital in kermanshah over a five-year period, diagnosed with colorectal cancer through performing colonoscopy an...

background & aim: ovarian torsion is one of the most common causes of emergency surgery in gynecology, with a tendency to occur in postmenopausal women. the aim of this study was to provide information concerning the clinical presentations, surgical management, pathological findings and risk of malignancy in postmenopausal women with ovarian torsion. methods:in this cross-sectional study, the r...