Case Report of Long-Term Follow-Up of an Unusual Oral Rhabdomyosarcoma with an Intraosseous Origin

Background: Rhabdomyosarcoma, originating from skeletal muscle tissue, is the most prevalent soft tissue sarcoma in children. Its occurrence within the oral cavity is relatively uncommon, with jaw involvement being extremely scarce, accounting for only 0.04% of all head and neck malignancies. This report aims to present an exceptionally rare case of oral rhabdomyosarcoma with intraosseous origin in the jawbone of a 12-year-old boy. It evaluates the long-term efficacy of a novel combined surgical treatment approach and its impact on the patient’s health.Method: Following several unsuccessful chemotherapy treatments, the tumor was removed with debulking surgery. Considering the patient’s young age, the surgical plan was carefully modified to minimize psychological and social problems, decrease post-operative consequences such as disabilities, and maintain the patient’s look. A marginal resection from both inside and outside of the mouth was selected, resulting in a thorough resection of the tumor to preserve mandibular continuity.Results: After the surgical intervention and follow-up chemotherapy, radiographic evaluations showed no signs of abnormalities or metastasis. The patient was scheduled for annual follow-up appointments to monitor long-term functionality and satisfaction with the treatment outcomes.Conclusion: Nearly a decade after the surgery, the patient remains alive, in good health, fully functional, and shows no signs of tumor recurrence

A convenient synthesis of peracetylated glycosyl halides using bismuth(III) halides as catalysts

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Knowledge Management in a Public Entity in the Area of Urban Regeneration: The Importance of Stakeholder Participation

Every city has pockets of underutilized land or distressed and decaying urban areas. It is necessary to adopt new solutions and strategies to revitalize these areas. As a member and secretariat of national urban regeneration headquarter, Iran’s Urban Regeneration Corporation (URC), is supposed to tackle the issue of decline urban decay within the national plan of revitalization, rehabilitation and renewal, and empowerment of underutilized areas. Given its crucial role in the development of the country, URC has designed its knowledge management system, to pursue efficiency and efficacy, by involving all its employees, managers, consultants, as well as key people like policy makers, developers, facilitators, and community members. More in details, URC decided to build its system with a great emphasis on the knowledge transferred to and from external stakeholders, trying to engage them in all its processes. Indeed, as regeneration is a long term, transformative process that entails disruption and risk, it is essential to manage the change process so that all stakeholders feel engaged, understand its importance to the future and have genuine outlets to participate. A three-dimensional approach was adopted to ensure stakeholder participation. Through mainstreaming, the stakeholders became knowledgeable and able to identify their responsibilities, roles within the UR process. Through networking, several two-way knowledge transfer mechanisms were developed to improve information flow among participants and thereby making more informed decisions. Through institutionalization, stakeholders empowered to manage the entire decision process through localized institutions and to disseminate their learnings to other decision levels. URC has started to promote its experience and is seeking for more solutions (online applications for evaluation and control, experience documentation, standardization of the processes, etc.) helping to create more efficient decision processes not only for itself but also for other public as well as private entities in Iran and abroad

Knowledge Management in a Public Entity in the Area of Urban Regeneration: The Importance of Stakeholder Participation

Every city has pockets of underutilized land or distressed and decaying urban areas. It is necessary to adopt new solutions and strategies to revitalize these areas. As a member and secretariat of national urban regeneration headquarter, Iran’s Urban Regeneration Corporation (URC), is supposed to tackle the issue of decline urban decay within the national plan of revitalization, rehabilitation and renewal, and empowerment of underutilized areas. Given its crucial role in the development of the country, URC has designed its knowledge management system, to pursue efficiency and efficacy, by involving all its employees, managers, consultants, as well as key people like policy makers, developers, facilitators, and community members. More in details, URC decided to build its system with a great emphasis on the knowledge transferred to and from external stakeholders, trying to engage them in all its processes. Indeed, as regeneration is a long term, transformative process that entails disruption and risk, it is essential to manage the change process so that all stakeholders feel engaged, understand its importance to the future and have genuine outlets to participate. A three-dimensional approach was adopted to ensure stakeholder participation. Through mainstreaming, the stakeholders became knowledgeable and able to identify their responsibilities, roles within the UR process. Through networking, several two-way knowledge transfer mechanisms were developed to improve information flow among participants and thereby making more informed decisions. Through institutionalization, stakeholders empowered to manage the entire decision process through localized institutions and to disseminate their learnings to other decision levels. URC has started to promote its experience and is seeking for more solutions (online applications for evaluation and control, experience documentation, standardization of the processes, etc.) helping to create more efficient decision processes not only for itself but also for other public as well as private entities in Iran and abroad