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...

abstract background: cancers are the second most common cause of non-accidental deaths in iran, after cardiovascular mortality. although most cases of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (escc) in the usa and western populations have been attributed to high levels of exposure to tobacco and alcohol, but in iranian populations the other risk factors especially infectious agents have been postulat...

background: histopathological diagnosis of lesions arising from the intake of tobacco is based on subjective evaluation of morphological alterations within the lesional tissue. oral exfoliative cytology is a non-invasive diagnostic technique for early detection of oral premalignant and malignant lesions. morphometric techniques have been advocated as objective and reproducible methods of detect...

Ultrasound viscoelastic creep imaging (UVCI) is a newly developed technology aiming to measure the properties of materials. The purpose this study investigate accuracy UVCI in measuring heterogeneous materials that mimic pathological lesions and normal tissues. finite element simulation used measurement on three material models, including homogeneous material, single-inclusion phantom, three-la...

The role of the tissue mast cells in relation to the acute inflammatory reaction to experimental cutaneous mucormycosis was studied histologically in normal rats, in animals whose tissue mast cells had been depleted of their cytoplasmic granules prior to infection by the administration of compound 48/80 and in others in whom acute alloxan diabetes with acidosis had been produced before injectio...

PURPOSE Autofluorescence imaging is increasingly used to noninvasively identify neoplastic oral cavity lesions. Improving the diagnostic accuracy of these techniques requires a better understanding of the biological basis for optical changes associated with neoplastic transformation in oral tissue. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN A total of 49 oral biopsies were considered in this study. The autofluoresc...