backgroundcongenital generalized lipodystrophy (cgl) is a rare disease. it is associated with near total fat loss, severe insulin resistance and hypoleptinemia leading to metabolic derangements.case presentationwe report a 25- year- old female with 1-acylglycerol-3-phosphate-o-acyltransferase 2 (apgat2) mutation, and both sclerotic and lytic bone lesions together for the first time. bone cyst i...

introduction in recent years methods based on radio frequency waves have been used for detecting breast cancer. using theses waves leads to better results in early detection of breast cancer comparing with conventional mammography which has been used during several years. materials and methods in this paper, a new method is introduced for detection of backscattered signals which are received by...

background: magnetic resonance imaging (mri) has improved the diagnosis and management of patients with multiple sclerosis (ms). montreal cognitive assessment (moca) is a brief, sensitive test that has been recommended by national institute of neurological diseases and stroke and canadian stroke network (ninds-csn) as a reliable tool to detect mild cognitive impairments. this study aimed to eva...

AIM To evaluate the safety and efficacy of a 980 nm diode laser for the treatment of benign facial pigmented and vascular lesions, and in oral surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS 20 patients were treated with a 980 nm diode laser. Oral surgery: 5 patients (5 upper and lower frenulectomy). Fluence levels were 5-15 J/cm(2); pulse lengths were 20-60 ms; spot size was 1 mm. Vascular lesions: 10 patien...

Background: Oral lesions can affect people’s quality of life by impairment of chewing, swallowing and speech. These lesions may originate from epithelial or mesenchymal tissues. Malignant oral lesions could be life-threatening. Epidemiological data about oral lesions in our country is limited. Objective: This study was conducted to investigate the frequency of histopathologic features of oral ...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Intra-osseous pathologic lesions of the jaw bones have different radiological and clinicopathological features from benign to malignant lesions. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of jaw lesions in Isfahan, Iran, during 1992-2017. METHODS: In this descriptive-analytical study, all re...

  Background and Objective: Different mechanisms may lead to the development of soft tissue tumor-like lesions in the oral cavity. Many of these lesions can be identified as specific entities on the basis of their histopathological features and are divided into fibrous, vascular, and giant cell types. The purpose of this study was to establish the relative prevalence of the different histopath...

background: the clinical and pathological evaluation of oral lesions are very important in this field. the purpose of this study was to assess clinico- pathological agreement on 232 cases with oral lesion s.methods: the consecutive files of 232 patients with oral lesions from pathological laboratory archives of babol dental faculty and shahid beheshti hospital were reviewed and the data include...