background: deep vein thrombosis (dvt) can be an ethnicity related disease and an important health issue for health-care systems. thus, domestic recognition of risk factors and disease characteristics seem to be inevitable. this study was designed to evaluate the epidemiology, basic characteristics, and risk factors in patients with dvt. materials and methods: in this descriptive cross-sectiona...

background: stem cells from human exfoliated deciduous teeth (shed) have the capability to differentiate into neural cells. neurotrophins including nerve growth factor (ngf), brain-derived neurotrophic factor (bdnf), neurotrophin-3 (nt-3), and neurotrophin-4 (nt-4) have neurogenesis, neurotrophic, or neuroprotective effects and are expressed in developing teeth. the aim of this study was to mea...

background and objectives: probiotic yeasts are used in production of functional foods and pharmaceutical products. they play an important role in promoting and maintaining human health. until now, little work has been published on improving the survival of saccharomyces in stimulated gastrointestinal condition. material and methods: in this study the exposure of the yeast in the capsulate and ...

background: the natural history and etiology of malignant mesothelioma (mm) is already thoroughly described in the literature, but there is still debate on prognostic factors, and details of asbestos exposure and possible context with clinical and demographic data, have not been investigated comprehensively. objectives: description of patients with mm, focusing on exposure, occupation, survival...

background: colorectal cancer (crc) is the second cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. there have been several studies reporting the proximal tumor shift, especially in western countries. in the present study, we investigated the clinicopathologic and anatomical distributions of colorectal tumors in iranian crc patients. materials and methods: in this retrospective cohort study,258 patient...

Background: Due to limited clinical data in pediatric-type sarcomas (rhabdomyosarcoma, Ewing's sarcoma, PNET, and desmoplastic small round-cell tumor), the aim of this study was to evaluate the demographic characteristics and identifying prognostic factors for survival. Materials and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 110 patients with pediatric-type sarcomas. Overall and disease free surviva...

Shot hole disease of stone fruit trees, caused by Wilsonomyces carpophilus (Lév.) Adaskaveg, Ogawa & Butler(= Stigmina carpophila (Lév.) M.B. Ellis and Coryneum beijerinckii Oud.) is a serious disease of Prunus species in West Azerbaijan province. The pathogen was obtained from infected leaves, fruits and twigs of Prunus orchards during spring and summer of 2007. Samples were cultured on PDA, M...

background: we conducted a retrospective analysis to evaluate the impact of omission of supraclavicular radiotherapy on supraclavicular failure rate and treatment outcomes in n1 breast cancer patients with evaluation of prognostic factors that affected supraclavicular recurrence free survival. methods: this study analyzed the medical records of 109 patients with n1 breast cancer. all patients u...