No abstract available.
Calcium* ; Fetal Blood* ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn* ; Magnesium* ; Parathyroid Hormone* ; Phosphorus*

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Breast* ; Calcium* ; Magnesium* ; Milk, Human* ; Phosphorus*

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Decompression* ; Facial Nerve* ; Melkersson-Rosenthal Syndrome*

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Epilepsies, Partial* ; Paragonimiasis*

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Encephalitis, Arbovirus*

PURPOSE: To report a case of subconjunctival foreign body migration in both eyes after collagen-containing filler injection. CASE SUMMARY: A 51-year-old female, who had been treated with collagen-containing filler in her eyelid, nose, and forehead for cosmetic complaints four months earlier, presented to our clinic with decreased visual acuity and foreign body sensation in both eyes. Slit lamp examination revealed moderate nucleosclerosis and subcapsular opacity in her crystalline lens, in addition to scattered subconjunctival foreign body infiltration in both eyes. Cataract extraction with posterior chamber lens implantation was performed, and the subconjunctival foreign body was also partially removed. Biopsy of the remaining foreign body was performed, and examination revealed foreign material and multivacuolated cells in the conjunctiva. CONCLUSIONS: Clinicians and patients should be aware of the risk of migration of collagen-containing filler inject at or near the eyelid, to the eyeball, including the conjunctiva.
Biopsy ; Cataract Extraction ; Collagen ; Conjunctiva ; Cosmetics ; Eye ; Eyelids ; Female ; Forehead ; Foreign Bodies ; Foreign-Body Migration ; Humans ; Lens, Crystalline ; Middle Aged ; Nose ; Sensation ; Visual Acuity

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Central Nervous System Infections* ; Central Nervous System*

Two cases of the tumor of the renal pelvis which occurred in boys of the age of 12 and 13 years respectively, having only the chief complaint of intermittent gross hematuria, were herein presented with brief review of literature.
Child* ; Hematuria ; Humans ; Kidney Pelvis*

PURPOSE: To report a case of endophthalmitis treated with surgical removal of the inflammatory endothelial plaque. CASE SUMMARY: A 61-year-old male was transferred to our clinic due to corneal laceration of the left eye. An emergency operation for the lacerated cornea was performed. After the operation, the patient had no specific symptoms for 8 months but then visited our clinic with sudden decreased visual acuity. On slit lamp examination, the patient had some chamber reactions. Anterior chamber reactions exacerbated after 2 months and the best corrected visual acuity was decreased from 1.0 to 0.08. An inflammatory corneal endothelial plaque and endothelial precipitates had developed. The posterior segment was not visualized due to the severe anterior chamber inflammatory reaction. No growth was observed on bacterial or fungal cultures. However, administration of eye drops and oral voriconazole were initiated based on a clinical impression suspicious of fungal infection. Despite the treatment, the infection did not respond. Voriconazole was then directly injected into the vitreous and anterior chamber. Although the patient's best corrected visual acuity slightly improved, the inflammatory reactions of the anterior chamber and vitreous did not. The inflammatory endothelial plaque on the patient's cornea was then surgically removed and the best corrected visual acuity improved to 1.0. Mycelium was detected on the KOH smear of the endothelial plaque. There were no further inflammatory reactions in the anterior chamber or vitreous after surgical removal of the endothelial plaque.
Anterior Chamber ; Cornea ; Emergencies ; Endophthalmitis ; Endothelium, Corneal ; Eye ; Humans ; Lacerations ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Mycelium ; Ophthalmic Solutions ; Pyrimidines ; Triazoles ; Visual Acuity

Metastasis to bone with destruction of the skeletal system is a common problem in old patients with malignancy. Destruction of the musculoskeletal system poses major problems for the patients, including uncontrollable pain, forced immmobilization, pathologic fracture and hypercalcemia. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of surgical treatment and to suggest treatment guidelines for impending or established pathologic fractures due to metastasis of the femur. Between 1985 and 1995, thirty six patients who had pathologic or impending fractures in the femur underwent surgical treatment. The indications of surgery for pathologic fractures are 1) the possibility of survival time more than three months, 2) more benefits of sungical treatment than those of conservative treatment, 3) the possibility of rigid internal fixation, 4) patient s general condition allowing surgery, and those in impending fractures are 1) cortical destruction more than 50% or lytic lesion more than 2.5cm. The method of surgery was excision of the tumor and rigid internal fixation to allow early ambulation with or without bone cement augmentation. The results were analyzed by three criteria, the performance status, pain relief and survival time. Pain relief more than Lots was achieved in 80.6% of patients according to the Kaiko's criteria. The performance status improved more than one grade in all patients except one who died of acute respiratory failure and the mean improvement was 1.8 grade by the Functional Classification of the New York Heart Association. Postoperatively, most of the patients had only slight to moderate limitation of physical activities and felt comfortable at rest and ordinary activities. The survival time was 20.9 months in patients with single metastasis and 10.2 months in patients with multiple metastases. But there was no statistical significance due to large deviation of survival time in each case. In summary, surgical stabilization of the pathologic lesion involving the femur provided definite improvement of quality of life including pain relief and early ambulation. In selected patients with single metastasis, low grade malignancy, or good performance status, postoperative survival time may be expected to be prolonged. More aggressive treatment for the metastatic lesion of the femur is suggested.
Classification ; Early Ambulation ; Femur* ; Fractures, Spontaneous ; Heart ; Humans ; Hypercalcemia ; Motor Activity ; Musculoskeletal System ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Quality of Life ; Respiratory Insufficiency