Background: Cervical cancer is the second most common type of cancer among women. Effective screening programs can help cancer detection in early phases and reduce death. Metastasis to lymph nodes is one of the most prognostic factors in patients who underwent surgery. Also, a positive result from pathology report alert oncologist as a cause of death. Sentinel lymph node biopsy has been widely ...

sarcoidosis is a systemic disease that is characterized with noncaseating granulomatous nodules which present in multiple organs specially lungs (90%) . incidence of masses due to sarcoidosis in upper extremity is low and most cases present in association with involvement of pulmonary hilary lymph nodes. in this article we present a rare case of sarcoidosis which presented as a single soft tiss...

localized leishmania lymphadenitis (l.l.l) is a self limited clinical presentation of cutaneous leishmaniasis. microscopic findings in l.l.l are very similar to toxoplasma lymphasenitis. in all cases, an intensive microscopic search should be done for leishman bodies. in this study, we describe our microscopic findings and results of our immnohistochemical (ihc) study with a panel of monoclonal...

different types of actinomyces spp isolated from the oral cavity of human in healthy as well as in pathological state. internally it is only found in association with pathological organs. recently actinomyces naeslundii has been isolated from blood culture of a leukemic patient. present studies indicate the association of this microorganism with cells obtained from bone marrow by punction in mo...

kawasaki disease (kd) is an inflammatory vasculitis. kd is classified into two groups based on clinical characteristics criteria, namely classic and incomplete. cerebral vascular abnormality, especially arterial ischemic stroke (ais) is very rare and unusual in kd. here, we report a 4-year-old boy who was referred to our tertiary pediatric center with abrupt right hemiparesis and aphasia. at ad...

background: this study attempts to ascertain a reliable cutoff size to determine whether pelvic lymph nodes are metastatic or not in ovarian cancer patients. methods: we retrospectively reviewed 73 pet/ct scans of 52 female patients with ovarian carcinoma who underwent surgery followed by chemotherapy. the findings of contrast enhanced mdct were interpreted by two experienced radiologists unawa...