introduction: diabetes can affect organs including the oral mucosa. there is a disagreement about the prevalence of oral mucosal disease in diabetic patients. we therefore decided to investigate more about that. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of soft tissue pathologies by assessing burning mouth and xerostomia in diabetic patients on the basis of type of diabetes and cont...

the previous studies reported some information about prevalence release of high-risk hpv types in hsil or cervical cancer globally and in iran, however, this information is not enough for final judgment about vaccination against hpv or any screening program. the aim of the present study was to assess the hpv type distribution in hsil and icc specimens of women attending shahid beheshti universi...

objective: one complication of fixed orthodontic treatment in patients with poor oral hygiene is development of demineralized enamel lesions compromising esthetics. this study aimed to review preventive measures and treatment of white spot lesions (wsls) in patients with fixed orthodontic appliances. review of literature: in this review study, pubmed and google scholar databases were searched f...

hemangiomas of the sinonasal tract are rare, and because these lesions lack the typical signs or symptoms, they can be confused with other malignant conditions. we report a case of cavernous hemangioma of the maxillary sinus in a 68-year-old man that was completely resected by endoscopic sinus surgery. although computed tomography (ct) and magnetic resonance imaging (mri) showed several enhanci...

abstract background and aims. reliable immunohistochemical assays to evaluate the definitive role of mast cells and angiogenesis in the pathogenesis of oral reactive lesions are generally not available. the purpose of the present study was to compare mast cell count (mcc) and microvessel density (mvd) between oral reactive lesions and evaluation of the correlation between mcc and mvd in these l...

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background: psoriasis is a common chronic and relapsing skin disease with unknown etiology being observed at any age and any gender, having a 1. 5-3% prevalence rate among the general population. psoriatic lesions consist of pruritic and scaling papules, residing on an erythematous base, which are more commonly found on the scalp, extensor surfaces, palms and soles, and the nails. the conventio...

coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. in this study, we compared two surgical methods of left internal mammary artery (lima) anastomosis on left anterior descending (lad) artery in patients with severe diffuse lesions. a total of 40 patients were included in our study and randomly assigned into two groups. in group a, after a long arteriotomy on lad, the posterior sur...

this paper introduces a novel methodology for the segmentation of brain ms lesions in mri volumes using a new clustering algorithm named scpfcm.  scpfcm uses membership, typicality and spatial information to cluster each voxel. the proposed method relies on an initial segmentation of ms lesions in t1-w and t2-w images by applying scpfcm algorithm, and the t1 image is then used as a mask and is ...

BACKGROUND Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer in Brazil and has a high potential for prevention and cure. The prevalence of invasive and preinvasive disease in women with cytological diagnosis of high-grade lesion - cannot exclude microinvasion (HSIL-micro) is not known. METHODS This cross-sectional study used a cytology lab database to identify women with HSIL-micro and HSIL ref...