introduction campylobacter jejuni is a slender, motile, non-spore-forming, helical-shaped, gram-negative bacterium. it is one of the most common causes of human gastroenteritis in the world. the aim of this study was to present a patient with acute lymphocytic leukemia (all), who was infected with campylobacter jejuni. conclusions c. jejuni should be considered in the differential diagnosis as ...

background among all pediatric cancers acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) is highly prevalent, butthe overall cost of all management is not well-known, there is a need to assess the berlin-frankfurt-munster (bfm) protocol commonly used in all management in iran. so, the aim of this study was to estimate direct and indirect costs of all treatment among children based on the all-bfm protocol from...

abstract objective fever and neutropenia are a common complication of chemotherapy in cancer. it is usually managed by hospitalization and empiric administration of antibiotics. use of fluroquinolones is limited because of joint/cartilage toxicity. this study attempted to compare the efficacy of oral ciprofloxacin with intravenous ceftazidim in low risk febrile neutropenic lymphocytic leukemia....

it has recently been shown that ror1, a member of the receptor tyrosine kinase family, is overexpressed in leukemic b cells of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (cll) and a subset of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all). in this comparative study the expression profile of ror1 mrna was investigated in iranian patients with cll and acute myelogenous leukemia (aml) and the results were compared with tho...

background: the present study was aimed to examine the possible association between methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase (mthfr) gene polymorphisms and childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) in a sample of iranian population. subjects and methods: a total of 220 subjects including 100 children diagnosed with all and 120 healthy children participated in the case-control study. the single n...

fuzzy expert systems are one of the most practical intelligent models with the high potential for managing uncertainty associated to the medical diagnosis. in this paper, a fuzzy inference system (fis) for diagnosing of acute lymphocytic leukemia in children has been introduced. the fuzzy expert system applies mamdani reasoning model that has high interpretability to explain system results to e...

introduction: osteoprotegerin (opg), a soluble decoy receptor secreted by osteoblasts, binds rank-l, preventing stimulation of osteoclastogenesis. in the present study we aimed to investigate the impact of opg variants and susceptibility to childhood acute lymphocytic leukemia (all) in a sample of iranian population. methods: this case-control study was done on 98 all and 124 healthy children. ...

Background: Acute leukemias comprise a heterogeneous group of diseases characterized by rapid and uncontrolled clonal expansion of progenitor cells of the hematopoietic system. Immunophenotyping helps subclassify acute leukemias into subgroups with prognostic implications. Materials and Methods: This descriptive observational cross-sectional study was performed on 80 newly diagnosed cases of a...

Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) is one of the frequent malignancies in pediatrics and involves bone marrow and extramedullary sites. Proptosis as extramedullary involvement of leukemia usually present in acute and chronic myeloid leukemia. It is extremely rare for ALL to present initially as proptosis.Here, a-21-month-old boy was presented with proptosis without any associated symptoms except ...