OBJECTIVE To ascertain whether there are incremental risks associated with thyroid surgery in the elderly population. DESIGN Prospective analysis of a consecutive single-surgeon series of patients undergoing thyroid surgery at an academic health center. SETTING Tertiary care health center. PATIENTS The study included patients aged 21 to 35 years and patients 65 years and older who underwe...

Background:  Hashimotochr('39')s thyroiditis can be present with a localized palpable nodule though presentation as a hyperfunction "nodule" is extremely rare.  The first case of Hashimotochr('39')s thyroiditis and hot nodule was reported in 1971 by warner. Case Presentation: We reported a 26-year-old hypothyroid woman in Hashimotochr('39')s thyroiditis background with a hyperactive thyroid no...

background: lichen planus is a skin disease that rarely involves mucus membrane. case: in this study, we introduced a rare case of lichen planus of the right vocal cord in a 51- year -old male presented with hoarseness. the lesion started two years ago and the hoarseness became progressive. there were not any lesions found in his buccal mucosa and skin. the biopsy of the lesion showed lichen pl...

Introduction: Multiple well-circumscribed round nodules, also known as “Cannonball” appearance in the lungs, are typically associated with specific pulmonary metastases. However, limited reports denote finding, especially if correlated primary squamous cell lung carcinoma younger population. This is first case report Indonesia of a 19-year-old male and chest radiograph image mimicking Case Pres...

abstract background : today, as many as 1.5 million americans use ventilators once in a year. .response to mechanical ventilation alarms remains to be one of the most challenging tasks facing physicians, nurses or other medical personnel in the icu. in the present study we aimed to compare the response times to “vocal alarms” and “visual or audible ones”. methods : in the present study we devel...

Objectives: The present study aims to compare acoustic voice parameters in patients with vocal cord nodules, polyps, and normal subjects.  Methods: In this cross-sectional case-control study, the participants were selected by convenience sampling, including 30 patients with vocal polyps group, 38 patients with vocal nodules for the second group, and 42 participants without voice pathologies a...

in order to study the effect of pyridate, bentazon and imazethapyr herbicides on chickpea growth, nodulation and biological nitrogen fixation, a greenhouse experiment was conducted at ferdowsi university of mashhad in 2010. experimental type was completely randomized design with four replications. treatments included pyridate, bentazon and imazethapyr herbicides application in 1200, 720 and 75 ...