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pISSN: 0044-6025
eISSN: 1735-9694
Editor-in-Chief:
Ahmadreza Dehpour, PharmD, PhD
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Vol XXI, No 3 (1978)
Original Article(s)
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A total number of 218 cerebrospinal fluids obtainedfrom children with aseptic meningitis III Tehran , were studied by attempts at virus isolation. All specimens were inoculated at least into three different cell systems. This investigation ended in isolation of 37 strains of viral agent, which are divided as following: 2 strains of poliovirus, 11 strains of coxsackie B virus, 8 strains of ECHOvirus, 11 strains of mumps virus and 5 strains of non identified VIrUSes.
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The obturator hernia is extremely uncommon. In 252 years only 521 cases or so, have been reported. It is to be
found mostly on aged women (9 women out of ten persons, the average age being 67), rather thin, and in poor health condition, owing to a belated diagnostic. The rate of death is high, and the only possible treatment is surgery, either abdominal J or, in certain cases, inguinal. The case we are dealing with, is an obturator hernia of the bladder, found on the fixed corpse of a man, aged about fifty. There are two currently recognized etio-pathogenic theories. One is based on a hypertrophy of the sub-peritoneal fat, the other one particular anatomical disposition of the region, specially in women; however, both these theories fail to account for all the cases because they do not reckon with the vascular influence. We are suggesting a third theory, which proposes a vascular explanation. The particular disposition of the obturating artery may, by itself and in the long run, bring about an obturator hernia. This seems to be the case with our subj ect . -
An appendix duplex was found on a routine dissection, in the dissecting room of the Anatomy Department of the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences of the University of Tehran. No other anomaly was noticed on the cadaver.
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Five cases of extensive lid-cheek basal cell car cmornas are presented. Treatment was by wide excision followed by immediate reconstruction using the nasal septal chondr . mucosal graft technique of Millard. The advantages of th i. procedure in an elderly, rural population of working people over other modes of reconstruction are noted. The success of this procedure recommends its wider application.
