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.

A comparison study of lipid profile levels between skin tags affected people and normal population in Tehran, Iran.

Background: For many years the association of skin tags and endocrynopathies has been postulated, although many reports are available but it has never been evaluated to mean normal population. Dyslipidemia is a frequent disorder among people and seemed to be necessary for screening within skin tag condition. This study is designed to find any possible association between skin tags and dyslipidemia.

Nail bed expansion: A new technique for correction of multiple isolated congenital micronychia.

Congenital micronychia may involve big toes or may involve other nails. The etiology of micronychia is not clear but amniotic bands, teratogens (drugs, alcohol), Nail Patella Syndrome etc. A 44-year-old woman with multiple isolated congenital micronychia over her hands and feet was selected.

Hyperlipidemia after kidney transplantation: long-term graft outcome.

Introduction: Metabolic complications are common after kidney transplantation and can cause considerable morbidity and even threaten graft function. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of hyperlipidemia and its impact on graft function in 10 years of follow-up of patients undergoing kidney transplantation.

Materials And Methods: This prospective study was conducted on 73 patients who underwent kidney transplantation between April 1996 and April 1998 to evaluate their lipid profile and graft function as well as the effect of hyperlipidemia in long-term kidney allograft function.

Sensorineural hearing loss in pseudoexfoliation syndrome.

Purpose: To determine hearing thresholds at sound frequencies important for speech comprehension in subjects with ocular pseudoexfoliation and to compare them with that of age- and sex-matched controls without pseudoexfoliation.

Design: Case-control study.

Participants: Eighty-three subjects with ocular pseudoexfoliation and 83 age- and gender-matched controls without pseudoexfoliation.