Investigation of Aloe vera Gel effects on the skin pigmentation due to the electron radiotherapy after mastectomy in the referred patients of Isfahan Seyedolshohada hospital during 1392

Background: Radiotherapy is a method for treatment of various types of cancers. Change in skin tissue is the most common complication of this procedure. Based on the researchers' attention is drawn to the treatment plant

Objective: This study aimed to determine the effects of Aloe vera gel on skin pigmentation caused by electron radiation therapy after mastectomy in patients

Methods: This study is a clinical trial in 80 women with breast cancer Which had mastectomy and radiotherapy with electrons A purposive sampling voluntary and Triple blind select and There were placed In one of the two groups [Aloe vera gel and placebo group]

In this study, the questionnaire and measures of skin pigmentation was used And all variables were homogeneous

Pigmentation was evaluated before intervention and end of each week Up to six weeks

Results: The results showed that at the end of the first week of intervention, increased pigmentation was observed in two groups. In the aloe vera group at weeks of the third, fourth and fifth, highest degree of pigmentation was grade I and only 2.08% was grade III, but in this three weeks, 8.75% of control group, skin pigmentation changes was grade III

At the end of the sixth week, 6.25% of aloe vera group and 52.50% of control group had degree of pigmentation grade III. Kruskall Wallis and Mann-Whitney tests indicated significant differences between the two groups from second to sixth week About severity skin pigmentation changes [P<0.001]

Conclusion: The topical use of the Aleo vera gel could be effective in the skin pigmentation decrease in the patients that were subjected to radiotherapy. Literally this gel prevents the skin darkening resulted from the radiotherapy in a suitable manner

Hypothyroidism following thyroid surgery

Postsurgical hypothyroidism and its incidence has not been fully investigated. In this study, the incidence of hypothyroidism and its possible risk factors at Shariati Hospital was assessed. One hundred and two patients with benign thyroid diseases, who had undergone thyroidectomy, were investigated with regards to thyroid function profile during period of one year after the operation every three months with post-operative sample as the baseline. Hypothyroidism was developed in 36 patients [35.2%] on average 5 +/- 3.2 months after surgery. Factors such as increased age, operation type, histopathologic type, underlying disease, lymphocytic infiltration and use of levothyroxine before surgery were associated with the increased incidence of hypothyroidism. It seems that use of indicators such as Graves' disease and lymphocytic infiltration in pathologic specimens should be helpful in projecting the potential occurrence of hypothyroidism in patients undergoing thyroidectomy

Nocturnal enuresis and its treatment among primary-school children in Oromieh, Islamic Republic of Iran

The aim of this study was to determine the frequency and treatment of enuresis among primary-school children living in Oromieh city, Islamic Republic of Iran. A questionnaire was answered by parents of 3500 selected students at the annual school enrolment in summer 2004. The frequency of nocturnal enuresis was 7.7%. Enuresis frequency was significantly higher among boys [8.6%] than girls [6.7%]. Treatment methods used were: medication, water restriction, awaking for voiding and enuresis alarm in 57.8%, 18.1%, 11.5% and 2.6% of cases respectively. The frequency of nocturnal enuresis is similar to other studies but treatment methods were different

Metastatic follicular thyroid carcinoma with spinal cord compression: a case report

Background and Purpose: Spinal cord compression due to metastasis, as the initial presentation of follicular thyroid carcinoma, is quite uncommon. In this article, we report one case of well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma which has led to the compression of the spinal cord

The patient: The case we report here is a man of 53 years old, with increasing neck pain, paraplegia and urinary incontinence. Magnetic resonance imaging of the neck revealed a mass which had destructed C5 with extension to C6

Conclusion: Histopathology examination demonstrated the metastasis of a well-differentiated follicular carcinoma of thyroid. Therefore, the metastatic lesion of the thyroid carcinoma should be considered in any case of spinal cord compression