introduction: tonsillectomy is one of the most common procedures performed by ear, nose, and throat surgeon.  usually, the procedure is carried out as an inpatient surgery. with the increasing need to reduce healthcare costs, spare precious hospital beds, and shorten elective surgery lists, there is currently a trend towards performing tonsillectomy on a daycare basis.  materials and methods: a...

Normally endometrial carcinoma presents with post-menopausal bleeding in the majority of cases. It rarely haematometra. If it does, reaches term pregnant uterus size. This case report is a rare presentation which was at first diagnosed as huge ovarian mass later found out to be haematometra intraoperatively. There discordant finding between invasions distant metastasis (Local invasion stage 1A ...

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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the difference between pre- and post-menopausal breast cancer regarding menstrual and reproductive risk factors METHODS The case-control study was conducted in Mayo Hospital, Lahore, between October 2008 and April 2009. Cases were breast cancer patients admitted in the surgical and oncology floors of the hospital. Controls were hospital patients without breast cancer. Th...

BACKGROUND Climateric is considered to be a natural phase of life which by definition is the period of life starting from decline in ovarian activity until after the end of ovarian function. It is accompanied by various health consequences that include the changes in saliva too. This study was carried out to evaluate the salivary flow rate, pH, buffering capacity in pre-menopausal, post-menopau...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Chronic gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is the leading cause of iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) in men older than 50 years and post-menopausal women. There is a scarcity of data regarding IDA patients without GI symptoms or signs. We conducted a prospective study to determine the prevalence and the locations of the GI tract lesions in patients with asymptomatic IDA. MET...

background: quality of life in post-menopausal women and menopausal symptoms are closely related concepts. influence health education policy in order to promote health and adopt a menopause lifestyle requires alternative strategies, including health training programs with community - based interventions. the current study aims to survey the effects of support groups on quality of life of post-m...

to find out whether or not soy milk as a phytoestrogen product can improve the quality of life of the iranian postmenopausal women.participants of this randomized clinical trial were 57 healthy postmenopausal women. all eligible women were randomly divided into two groups of soy milk (sg) and control (cg). individuals in the sg (n = 34) received 500 ml soy milk including genistein (28.86 mg/dl)...