B Nabaie , A Borgheie ,
Volume 56, Issue 3 (1 1998)
Abstract
Norplant is one of the most effective contraceptive divices with low failure rate and long effect, which has been used in governmental centers, since 1992. considering high costs of this program, this study was designed to specify norplant continiuation rate, the causes of discontiniuation and also its complications. This descriptive study was done by reviewing women using this method in Hospitals of Tehran Medical Sciences University. The results indicate that since 1992 to 1997, 305 women have used Norplant. The mean age of them has been 27 years and 17% are employed. During the follow-up period (55 months) 43 percent have discontiniued using Norplant. The mean continiuation period in this group has been 14.6 month in 0-55 months limit. According to this study, the most common side effects of Norplant are menstrual irregularities including sporting, and amenorea, and neuropsychiatric disorders. No case of pregnancy has been reported in this period
H Borgheie , E Razmpa , F Tabloei ,
Volume 56, Issue 5 (6 1998)
Abstract
57 cases of jaw's SCC who were hospitalized in Imam Khomeini HSP, Amir-Alam HSP & Cancer Institute between the years of 1373 to 1376, were studied. 23 cases of them were female and the rest of them (34 cases) were male. The range of age of patients was between 25 to 85 years. 21 cases (36.8%) have maxillary involvement and 37 cases (64.9%) have mandibular involvement and there was one case (1.7%) of synchronous involvement of both sites. Patients were categorized according to their individual characteristics (sex, age, occupation, birth & living place), etiologic factors (smoking & familial susceptibility), complaints, sites of involvement in each jaw, histopathological characteristics of tumor (stage, grade, lymphatic involvement), rate of bone and soft tissue involvement, type of treatment, and recurrences of previous lesions. According to the results, and apart from late consultation of majority of patients with their physicians, invasive behaviours of tumoral lesions were less than expected rate. And despite of using radical and invasive treatments, considerable percent of patients were facing recurrence of their previous lesions. Besides, patterns of distribution of birth and living places of patients may probably show the role of geographical and environmental factors in making patients susceptible to certain diseases.
