Abstract: Introduction: Increasing development of some diseases such as Behcet’s disease (BD) was reported after tonsillectomy. This study was designed to find the association between tonsillectomy/adenoidectomy (T/A) and subsequent development of BD. Patients & methods: In a prospective control study, 128 patients with BD and 139 controls from the orthopedic clinic (age and sex matched) were studied regarding previous T/A. A complete ENT clinical examination was performed for all of them. ...
CLINICAL AND LABORATORY MANIFESTATIONS OF THROMBOCYTOPENIA IN PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS.
Abstract: In systemic lupus eryThematosus (SLE) various antibodies are produced against cells including platelets and result in thrombocytopenia. !n the literature, the incidence of thrombocytopenia varied from 7% to 52%, in seven series of SLE patients with a mean cumulative percentage of 14.5% (1-5 ). SLE patients referred to the Lupus Unit of the Rheumatology Research Center. Tehran University for Medical Sciences. (Shariati Hospital) during the period of 1975 to 1977 ...