malignancy and tumor in ent are less common but more important, also they have not any certain sign until they progress thus it will be so important that we consider some abnormal common signs when we are examine patients until do not miss them, this study was conducted to establish the various clinical modes of presentation of pharyngeal neoplasm and their correlation with final histopathologi...

results the findings indicated that ucoc%/oc% was positively and significantly associated with percentage change in max force production during elbow extension (β = 0.28, p = 0.034), however, all other associations were non-significant. background muscles and bones are interconnected. recent studies suggest that undercarboxylated osteocalcin from bone may affect muscle mass and strength. there ...

stroke is an important cause of death in the world and disability world‑wide especially in developed countries. following acute phase of stroke, some procedures and medical treatment such as thrombolytic agents has been recommended; nevertheless many patients have enduring deficits. thus, there is a realistic need to develop treatment strategies for reducing neurological deficits. however, the ...

objective this study aimed at investigating seasonal variation, clinical symptoms, and cerebrospinal fluid (csf) changes in patients with aseptic meningitis admitted in mofid hospital between 1995 and 1996. materials & methods a total of 63 children with aseptic meningitis were enrolled in the study. their age, gender, season of the disease, etiology, clinical symptoms, csf changes, and treatme...

helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) is classified as a class i carcinogen. the low infection rate seen in developed countries (8.9%) compared with a high infection rate (52%-98%) in developing countries indicates a strong association between infection prevalence and socioeconomic status. adhesion of h. pylori to gastric epithelial cells is an important aggressive factor. one of the genes that encod...

background: assessment of clinical competencies is one of the complicated and hard tasks in medical education. nowadays, assessment of clinical performance is significantly patient centered, and student centered. traditional methods consisted of faculties’ observations, oral examinations, and multiple-choice tests. increased faculties’ workload, discontent with traditional methods of clinical s...

the photoanthropometric method was used to study the facial features in 136 iranian children with down syndrome, aged 4 to 14 years. nineteen parameters were investigated and compared to an age related control group of 100 normal iranian children. the obtained measurements were related to reference values in the same faces. the normal range was defined by age related index values between the 20...

multiple sclerosis (ms) is a demyelinating disease of the central nervous system, with unknown etiology in which both genetic and environmental factors are thought to be involved. the human leukocyte antigen (hla) system provides a set of genetic markers which lend themselves to systematic study. in iran, hla-a24, hla-dr2, and hla- dr15 are significantly increased in ms patients. the disease al...

errors and variations in interpretation can happen in clinical imaging. few studies have examined the biased effect of clinical information on reporting of brain ct scans. in a blinded double crossover design, we studied whether three radiologists were biased by clinical information when making ct scan diagnosis of the brain. three consultant radiologists in three rounds with at least a one-mon...

introduction: palmoplantar psoriasis could hardly be differentiated from chronic tylotic eczema both clinically and histologically. the most commonly used therapeutic options for palmoplantar psoriasis are long-term therapy with topical corticosteroids and local puva. frequently, it is a recalcitrant disease. we investigated the efficacy  and tolerability of the combination of topical calcipotr...