Cervical cytology remains the principal screening method to detect pre-invasive and invasive cervical lesions. Management of abnormal cervical cytology depends on the risk of encountering a significant cervical lesion or high-grade cervical disease. These risks may vary in different areas across the country. Thus, determining the rate of significant cervical lesion associated with each type of ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to explore the value of NeuroGam software in diagnosis of epilepsy by 99Tcm-ethyl cysteinate dimer (ECD) brain imaging. MATERIAL AND METHODS NeuroGam was used to analyze 52 cases of clinically proven epilepsy by 99Tcm-ECD brain imaging. The results were compared with EEG and MRI, and the positive rates and localization to epileptic foci were analyzed. RESULT...

The cellobiose and mannitol differential sugar test is a non-invasive investigation of small bowel permeability, in which urinary recoveries of cellobiose and mannitol after a hyperosmolar oral load are expressed as a ratio to give a permeability index. Changes in the cellobiose:mannitol ratio often occur in coeliac disease, but some patients with abnormal permeability have normal jejunums by r...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the morphology of cultured fibroblasts derived from abnormal scars and compare it to those of human normal skin. METHODS This study was carried out in the Surgical Clinic, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdul-Aziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia between December 2008 and March 2010. Fifty-two samples of hypertrophic and keloid scar were collected. An in vitro s...

PURPOSE To evaluate the clinical utility of wide-field fundus autofluorescence (FAF) in patients with cone dystrophy and cone-rod dystrophy. METHODS Sixteen patients with cone dystrophy (CD) and 41 patients with cone-rod dystrophy (CRD) were recruited at one institution. The right eye of each patient was included for analysis. We obtained wide-field FAF images using a ultra-widefield retinal ...

the present study evaluate the histopathologic findings and clinical indications in hysterectomized patients based on sonographic assessments. this study population consisted of all patients who were referred to the pathology ward of imam reza educational and treatment center (kermanshah, iran) during march 2006 to may 2012. the samples were stained with hematoxylin-eosin after fixation in form...

objective: hashimoto encephalopathy (he) is known as a steroid-responsive encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroiditis or nonvascular inflammation-related autoimmune meningoencephalitis. the average age of onset of he is approximately 50 years; and it is more common in women. the onset of he may be acute or subacute. the course of most he cases is relapsing and remitting, which is simi...

PURPOSE To evaluate the predictive ability of macular parameters defined in the significance map created using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) for paracentral visual field defects in early glaucoma. DESIGN Prospective comparative study. METHODS We studied 78 early-glaucomatous eyes of 78 patients, who underwent SD-OCT and standard automated perimetry 10-2. Macular laye...

Background: Abnormal uterine Bleeding is one of the most common disorders in Gynecology. Dilatation and curettage is a diagnostic procedure in the management of the abnormal uterine bleeding. The results of this procedure could be used to achive a definite treatment such as hysterectomy. This study was conducted to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of dilatation and curettage. Mater...