Iraq has used chemical warfare agents in recent Iran-Iraq conflict ( 1980-88) . There are few studies regarding late complications of chemical warfare and there is no report concerning late cutaneous complications. The present study is concerned with the late clinical manifestation of cutaneous complications in chemical warfare casualties in comparison to non – chemical injured soldiers. Upon t...

BACKGROUND This study was aimed to determine the correlation between ocular complications and respiratory or cutaneous complications in a group of 40 Iranian veterans with late complications of sulphur mustard (SM) poisoning. METHODS Thorough ophthalmologic examination was performed on all severely SM-poisoned veterans in the province of Khorasan, Iran. Spirometric evaluation of pulmonary fun...

systemic sclerosis is a generalized disorder of connective tissue, in which the pattern of disease extent, progression and outcome is heterogenous. to determine clinical features, disease extent and progression, we studied our patients in two phases of disease early (the first 3 years) and late phases (after 6 years of disease). 19 patients had diffuse cutaneous and 34 patients had limited cuta...

background: hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (hsct) is currently the only curative treatment for acute leukemia. as hsct improves the long-term survival, it is necessary to assess the late-onset complications affecting the quality of life following hsct. subjects and methods: the study included 122 patients (65 male, 57 female) with leukemia (72 aml and 50 all) who received transplants f...

ALCL: anaplastic large cell lymphoma CL: composite lymphoma EBV: Epstein-Barr virus MF: mycosis fungoides INTRODUCTION Patients with mycosis fungoides (MF) are at increased risk of a second malignant neoplasm, especially lymphoma. We report a sexagenarian with a 14-year history of patch MF, stage IB, who had intravascular cutaneous anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) and cutaneous composite l...

PURPOSE The principal aim of this study is to analyze the incidence of late complications in oncologic patients with totally implanted central venous access ports. METHODS A prospective multicenter observational study was conducted in 26 Italian oncologic outpatient clinics. 1076 cancer patients with Totally Implanted Central Venous Access Ports (TIAP) were observed. 515 devices were observed...

PURPOSE Orthotopic neobladders have become the standard of care after radical cystectomy in select women with bladder cancer. We report early and late complications in 192 patients. Although medical complications were important, they were not the focus of this study. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between January 1995 and December 2003, 192 women with a mean age of 50.6 years received an orthotopic ne...

Introduction: With the impossibility of prosthetic implantation with a definitive final volume due to dehiscence and posterior extrusion risks, the development of skin-sparing mastectomy provides an ideal condition for the use of a definitive expander implant. Therefore, this study aimed to demonstrate the use of a definitive expander implant and discuss its indications, cutaneous incision, and...

Introduction: Hypospadias is a common congenital malformation in boys. One of the common surgical techniques for correction of hypospadias is (Tubularized Incised Plate urethraplasty=TIP). Meatal stenosis and fistula formation are known post-operative complications. The purpose of our study was to evaluate the effect of early urethral dilatation in prevention of post operative complications. Me...