WARD PROCEDURES AND TECHNIQUES. By Philip Cooper, M.D. (Pp. xii+ 303; illustrated. 50s). New York: Appleton-Century and London: Butterworth, 1967. THE intention of the author is that this book should give "a basic introduction to ward procedures and techniques for clinical clerks, interns, residents. It is intended not only to aid trainees by giving them a better comprehension of these procedur...

and infection has been added, as well as revised "special problems" in surgical infections, such as "Surgery in Patients with AIDS." The text is comprehensive in the range of infections it handles, both in terms of the organisms themselves and the regional organ physiology of the host. This book will be particularly useful to surgeons wishing to review their microbiology and their basic science...

objective: the aim of the present study was to histopathologically evaluate follicular tissues of third molars with pericoronal radiolucenciesof less than 2 millimeters. materials and methods: in this descriptive analytic study, 100 impacted third molars with normal follicular spaces were removed and their pericoronaltissues submitted for histopathologic examination. different characteristicsof...

proliferating pilomatricoma is a distinctive rare variant of pilomatricoma first described in 1997.very few cases of proliferating pilomatricoma have been reported in the literature until date. this report is a case of 65 years old male presenting with hard nodular lump on the right side of neck slowly increasing in size for the last 8 months. wide excision of the lump was performed with clear ...

background: skin lesions of filarial worms are usually common in livestock. in camels, the most reported species is onchocerca fasciata, which involves subcutaneous connective tissue and the nuchal ligament. objectives: the aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and pathology of camel onchocerciasis in iran’s central desert. methods: carcasses of 144 dromedary camels of both sexes ...

chronic rhinosinusitis (crs) is a common disease which is usually diagnosed clinically, considering the combination of natural history, physical examination and imaging studies. this study aimed to evaluate the clinical value of routine postoperative histopathologic examination (pohe) in patients with a clinical diagnosis of chronic rhinosinusitis with polyposis (crswp), or without polyposis (c...

connective tissue consists of cells separated by the extracellular matrix, whose composition and amount vary according to age, to functional requirements, and to the presence of pathologic conditions. within this non-random macromolecular assembly, collagens, elastin, proteoglycans and structural glycoproteins are mutually interdependent and modifications of one component, by extrinsic (environ...