Celiac disease (CD) is defined as a permanent intolerance to gluten with clinical manifestations and abnormal small intestinal mucosa. A case series study was performed to obtain information about clinical manifestations, age of presentation and diagnosis of CD. For this purpose, hospital records of patients who were admitted to the gastrointestinal ward in the Children's Medical Center from 1...

INTRODUCTION: Endometriosis, commonly occurs in the pelvic organs, mostly the ovaries, with dysmenorrhea, menorrhagia Umbilical endometriosis is rare .Symptoms include umbilical masses with swelling and pain.. SO it is often not recognized  based on  its clinical appearance. PRESENTATION OF CASE: A 32-year old female, was presented  with  umbilical bulging and  mild cyclic umblical  pain. with...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to assess prevalence and possible variables on the change of diagnosis in mood disorder patients to schizophrenia. methods: this study was a retrospective and comparative analytic research that was performed in 2006 at razi psychiatric hospital. the study included all of the 176 patients who were hospitalized in 2000 with diagnosis of a mood disorder....

laboratory diagnostic tests are useful in diagnosis of hydatidosis of the lung. in this study, we compare the diagnostic values of these immunodiagnostic tests with the clinical evidence of hydatid disease. application of these tests, especially indirect hemagglutination and bentonite flocculation, is shown to be very useful in diagnosis of the disease, of course in combination with clinical fi...

Background: Immunobullous diseases are morphologically heterogeneous and the differentiation between various subtypes is essential for proper treatment and prognosis. The aim of our study was to analyze and correlate clinical, histopathological, and immunofluorescence findings in autoimmune bullous diseases.Method: A c...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Inflammatory Periapical lesions are the most common periapical lesions. These lesions are often diagnosed based on clinical and radiological examination, which may be different from the histological finding. The present study was carried out with aim to assess the rate and to compare clinical and radiographic features with histological diagnosis of periapical pathology.METHO...

A 2 years and 9 months old boy attended to a gastroenterology clinic of pediatric hospital for investigation of recurrent and intractable vomiting. He had post prandial, non-projectile, non-bilious emesis since past 2 years. Since the onset of illness, he was carried to many doctors and underwent extensive laboratory investigations. Because all of the science lab and imaging work up for etiolog...

Background & Objective: Nonalcoholic fatty liver diseases (NAFLD) is the major cause of hepatocellular carcinoma and increases the risk of mortality. Understanding the trends of its clinical and biochemical changes is essential to identify patients with NAFLD that are at the greatest risk of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and cirrhosis in Iran. M...