Endoscopic thoracic sympathotomy for primary hyperhidrosis: predictors of outcome over a 10-year period.

Background: Endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy/sympathotomy is gold standard of treatment for primary hyperhidrosis. Compensatory hyperhidrosis following surgery and partial response to surgery in some patients can significantly affect surgery outcome and patient satisfaction. In this study we investigated predictors of success rate, side effects, and satisfaction of our patients following ETS over a 10-year period.

Reliability and Educational Value of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Surgery Videos on YouTube.

Introduction: Many surgery videos can be found in different social networks and video sharing websites. Watching surgeries performed by different surgical experts of various institutions can be an invaluable supplement to traditional methods of learning surgery. YouTube is a quite popular video sharing website, and many surgeons and trainees refer to it as a source of surgery videos.

Mucoromycosis and Wegner's Granulomatosis: A Case Report.

Wegener's granulomatosis is a rare vasculitis affecting the upper and lower respiratory tracts and kidneys. The cornerstone of treatment in these patients is immunosuppressive therapy, which may predispose the patient to super-infections such as fungal diseases per se. However, the fungal infection mimics the clinical manifestations of Wegener's diseases would lead to neglected course of the infection and subsequent morbidity and mortality especially if unusual organs are involved.

Efficacy of Botox versus Placebo for Treatment of Patients with Major Depression.

Background: Treatment of major depression is crucial to decrease the burden of disease. Hence, in this study, the efficacy of Botox was compared with placebo for treatment of patients with major depression.

Methods: In this randomized clinical trial, 28 consecutive patients with major depression were enrolled.

Comparing the effectiveness of fractional CO laser and the combination therapy with micro-needling and topical 10% trichloroacetic acid to remove infra-orbital dark circles in Tehran women.

Background: Infra orbital dark circles are now recognized as being a cosmetic problem that should be considered in treatment issue. The present study aimed to assess and compare the clinical efficiency of the combination of micro-needling and 10% trichloroacetic acid (TCA) cream as well as carbon dioxide laser in the management of infra-orbital dark circles.

Methods: This randomized clinical trial was performed on women aged 28-62 years who complained of infra-orbital dark circles.

Drug-induced skin reactions: a 2-year study.

Background: The aim of this study was to analyze the clinical characteristics of patients with adverse cutaneous drug reactions, which occur when a medicinal product results in cutaneous morbidity.

Methods: The study included 308 patients who were diagnosed as having an adverse cutaneous drug reaction during the study period (2007-2009). In 84 cases, histopathologic examination of skin biopsies were also performed.

Leech therapy for epidermoid cysts and review of the literature.

Unlabelled: Hirudo medicinalis sucks blood directly through the external mammalian skin. We recently observed a healthy 64-year-old Iranian man, who presented with numerous asymptomatic multilobular oval-to-round well-defined 0.5 to 1.

Should variation of serum lipid levels be considered a risk factor for the development of basal cell carcinoma?

Background: Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common cutaneous neoplasm in human beings. Ultraviolet radiation is one of the most important predisposing factors for BCC. Although some recent investigations have shown a high serum level of phospholipids in actinic keratosis and BCC, this subject is still debated and needs approval.

Efficacy of intralesional injection of mumps-measles-rubella vaccine in patients with wart.

Background: In the previous studies, it has been shown that mumps-measles-rubella (MMR) vaccine resulted in regression of warts via immunomodulatory effect and induction of immune system. Due to the high prevalence of warts in various populations, we evaluated the efficacy of MMR vaccine injection in the treatment of cutaneous warts.

Materials And Methods: This double-blind randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted in Hazrat-e-Rasoul Hospital in Tehran in 2011-2012 on 24 patients with warts who were allocated to two groups including MMR group and normal saline group.

Glucose and fluoxetine induce fine structural change in human serum albumin.

Human serum albumin has been used as a model protein for protein folding and ligand binding studies over many decades. Due to its long life period and high concentration in plasma, HSA is highly sensitive to glycation. It is reported that 175 mg/dL glucose concentration is a threshold of kidney activity for the beginning of excretion of glucose.

Pachydermodactyly, a new case from Iran.

Pachydermodactyly (PDD) is a rare form of benign digital fibromatosis involving the proximal portion of lateral sides of fingers. It is characterized by asymptomatic and symmetrical soft tissue swellings of the radial and ulnar aspects of proximal PIP joints of second to fifth fingers. Herein we report a 15-year-old boy with this condition.

Clinical and histopathologic study of pilomatricoma in Iran between 1992 and 2005.

Pilomatricoma (calcifying epithelioma of Malherb) is a tumor of hair follicle matrix cells and is almost always benign. In this study we reviewed the clinical and histopathological features of 45 cases of pilomatricoma during 13 years (1992-2005). Although few malignant transformations have been reported in other studies, no evidence of malignancy or aggressiveness is observed in this study.

Neoplastic skin lesions in Iranian renal transplant recipients: the role of immunosuppressive therapy.

Background: Immunosuppressive therapy is believed to be one of the most important risk factors in the development of skin cancer in renal transplant recipients.

Objective: Our purpose was to determine the types of neoplastic skin lesions encountered in Iranian renal transplant recipients and their associations with immunosuppressive regimens.

Methods: The entire bodies of renal transplant recipients attending an outpatient transplantation department were examined.

Skin diseases in kidney transplant recipients.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of skin diseases in kidney transplant recipients.

Materials And Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed on 233 kidney transplant recipients in Ekbatan Hospital of Hamedan in 2004. The patients were examined by a dermatologist and diagnosis was made on the basis of clinical observations.

Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis (Sweet's syndrome): a study of 15 cases in Iran.

Background: Sweet's syndrome is well recognized by dermatologists and is not infrequently diagnosed in Iran; however, few case series have been reported.

Methods: A clinicopathologic study was carried out on 15 cases of Sweet's syndrome in Hamedan, in the west of Iran, between 1994 and 2004.

Results: The incidence of Sweet's syndrome was 3 per 10,000 amongst new dermatologic patients.

A 10-year study of squamous cell carcinoma in Hamedan in the west of Iran (1993-2002).

Background: Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the second most common form of skin cancer in Caucasians. Environmental factors, especially sunlight, play an important role in its pathogenesis. Aim To better define the frequency and characteristics of SCC in patients biopsied at Hamedan Sina Hospital in the west of Iran.