background and objective: germ cell tumor (gct) accounts for approximately 2-3% of all malignancies in children. in this respect, about 20% of patients with gct are still resistant to therapy. materials and methods: the cross-sectional strategy of this survey was undertaken on 57 patients with germ cell tumor who admitted to ali asghar children hospital during the years 1990- 2003. in this stud...

lipoma arborescens, also known as villous lipomatous transformation of synovium is an unusual fatty lesion of joint. this disorder is characterized by a diffuse increase in the quantity of subsynovial fat in supra-patellar region which bulges the overlying synovial lining and produces a villous architecture. hereby we report a case of lipoma arborescens in an eleven year old boy with a history ...

The rise in the rate of obesity in school-aged children, adolescents, and young adults in the last 30 years is a clear healthcare crisis that needs to be addressed. Despite recent national reports in the United States highlighting positive downward trends in the rate of obesity in younger children, we are still faced with approximately 12.7 million children struggling with obesity. Given the im...

Background and Objective: Germ cell tumor (GCT) accounts for approximately 2-3% of all malignancies in children. In this respect, about 20% of patients with GCT are still resistant to therapy. Materials and Methods: The cross-sectional strategy of this survey was undertaken on 57 patients with germ cell ...

Lipoma arborescens, also known as villous lipomatous transformation of synovium is an unusual fatty lesion of joint. This disorder is characterized by a diffuse increase in the quantity of subsynovial fat in supra-patellar region which bulges the overlying synovial lining and produces a villous architect...

BACKGROUND An increase in the obese adolescent population is being recognized as a serious medical and social problem. The present study aimed to examine the association between neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) and obesity in Korean adolescents based on total available resources and local social inequality models. METHODS The present study used data from the 2013 Korea Youth Risk Behav...

scleroderma is a multisystem autoimmune connective tissue disease, cliaracterized by hardening of the skin. hv had 25 patients in the iranian pediatric unit of rheumatology over 10 years. there was female predominance if.m = 4/1, 80% female, 20% male). the age of onest was from 6 months to 16 years, the mean age being 10 years. the symptoms and signs were: nonpitting edema in 16%, liard skin in...