Attention to the Registry of Neglected Diseases: Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis as an Example

Alipour, Sadaf; Zafarghandi, Mohammadreza; IGM Group, Iran

doi:10.34172/ijhpm.2024.8697

Attention to the Registry of Neglected Diseases: Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis as an Example

Document Type : Letter to Editor

Authors

Sadaf Alipour ¹^{, 2}

Mohammadreza Zafarghandi ³^{, 4}

Iran IGM Group ¹

¹ Breast Diseases Research Center (BDRC), Cancer Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

² Department of Surgery, Arash Women’s Hospital, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

³ Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

⁴ Department of Vascular Surgery, Sina Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

10.34172/ijhpm.2024.8697

Abstract

Attention to the Registry of Neglected Diseases: Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis as an Example

Keywords

Data

Health Disparity

Knowledge Gap

Iran

Minimum Dataset

Quality Control

Dear Editor,

Many diseases in the world are infrequent, and constitute less of a burden for global health than common conditions. For some of them, there is a rival disease that is very serious or common, and has drawn all the attention of researchers and health policy-makers. Consequently, the latter (disease B) inspires all studies, and the former (disease A) is rather neglected. ...(Read more...)

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