Fereshteh Ameli

Tehran University of Medical Sciences | TUMS · Department of Pathology

Aim Abnormal expression patterns of beta-tubulin isotypes may provide a molecular rationale for the behaviour of lymphoma subtypes. In the present study class II and III beta-tubulin expression was assessed in non-neoplastic and neoplastic lymphoid tissues with reference to potential utility as new tumour biomarkers. Methods and results In this cr...

Background: Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) has been widely accepted as a safe method for diagnosis of salivary gland lesions and its accuracy is increased with increasing the experience of the physician. This study was conducted to examine the sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of FNAC of salivary gland lesions by cyto-histological corr...

Invasive ductal (IDC) and lobular (ILC) carcinomas are the common histological types of breast carcinoma which are difficult to distinguish when poorly differentiated. Discoidin domain receptor (DDR1) and Drosophila dishevelled protein (DVL1) were recently suggested to differentiate IDC from ILC. To assess the expression of DDR1 and DVL1 and their...

Introduction Systemic Epstein-Barr virus-positive T-cell lymphoproliferative childhood disease is an extremely rare disorder and classically arises following primary acute or chronic active Epstein-Barr virus infection. It is characterized by clonal proliferation of Epstein-Barr virus-infected T-cells with an activated cytotoxic phenotype. This dis...

Objectives: To report a case of preauricular pilomatrixoma in a 3-year-old girl. Methods: Retrospective review on a case report Results: A three-year-old girl presented with six month history of painless right pre-auricular swelling that was gradually increasing in size. The mass was small, soft, non tender with normal overlying skin. She underwent...

Churg-Strauss syndrome, a small and medium vessel vasculitis, was first described by Churg and Strauss in 1951. It is characterised by the presence of asthma, prominent tissue and blood eosinophilia, systemic vasculitis, and pulmonary and systemic necrotising allergic granulomas. Involvement of the skin, heart and gastrointestinal tract is well doc...