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Percutaneous gastrostomy, ballon dilatation, and metallic stent placement are the most common interventional procedures in radiology for the GI tract. Percutaneous gastrostomy provides nutritional support for patients with a debilitating disease or major swallowing difficulty. The most common candidates are patients with cerebral vascular accidents. Percutaneous gastrostomy is associated with a lower morbidity than surgically or endoscopically placed gastrostomy catheters and is also less expensive. Benign strictures of the GI tract are generally treated by balloon dilatation. Very tight strictures usually require stepwise dilation, beginning with a small balloon and gradually increasing the balloon diameter. Balloon dilatation is technically successful in more than 90% of patients, and functional success is achieved in 86∼90%. Metallic stents are used to manage strictures or obstructions in the esophagus and GI tract. For the esophagus, stent placement has been used effectively in the treatment of malignant dysphagia and is now a well-established procedure. The technical success rate approaches 100% and improvements in the dysphagia score ranges from 83% to 100%. From the successful use in the esophagus, stents have been employed in the stomach, duodenum, and colon. Metallic stents are currently an estalished component of the nonsurgical management of gastroduodenal and colorectal obstructions. Metallic stents within the stomach, duodenum, or colon are used for nonsurgical palliation of the symptoms of gastric or colonic obstruction rather than as a curative procedure. This palliation is intended to improve the quality of life in patients with an unresectable disease or used as an interin procedure prior to a definitive surgical management.
Catheters ; Colon ; Constriction, Pathologic ; Deglutition ; Deglutition Disorders ; Dilatation ; Duodenum ; Esophagus ; Gastrointestinal Tract* ; Gastrostomy ; Humans ; Nutritional Support ; Quality of Life ; Stents ; Stomach

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Humans ; Male

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Darier's disease is a congenital dyskeratosis and is as an autosomal dominant reait but a case with a family history is relatively rare and only 2 such cases have been reported in Korea. We present typical Darier's disease occuring in a mother and her 2 daughters. A 45 year-old female has shown muitiple, confluent, dirty verrucous keratotic papules on the seborrheic area and whitish papules on the sotf palate since the age of 7 year-ole. Histologically there, are corps ronds, grains and suprabssal lacunae in the epidermis.
Edible Grain ; Darier Disease* ; Epidermis ; Female ; Humans ; Korea ; Middle Aged ; Mothers ; Nuclear Family ; Palate

Three main types of operative teehnique are in general use today in the treatment of spondylolysis or spondylolisthesis: namely, total laminectomy alone, total laminectomy and posterior fusion, and anterior interbody fusion. According to Hoover(1968), above operations have yielded satisfactory results in approximately 70% of the cases. In recent years, Watkins, Adkins and Rombold have independently reported their cxperience with posterolateral intertransverse fusion, which they claim is based on a more sound mechanical basis and has yielded better results. The author performed anterior interbody fusion in 4 cases and posterolateral intertransverse fusion in 3 cascs at Seoul Naval Hospital during the 2 year period from May 1968 through May 1970 The postoperative follow-up period was maximum one year and minimum six months. Only one casc of anterior interbody fusion has shown sound fusion, while all ihe three posterolateral intertransverse fusions with posterior H-graft have yielded sound fusion with satisfactory clinical improvement by six months after operation.
Follow-Up Studies ; Laminectomy ; Seoul ; Spondylolisthesis ; Spondylolysis

Kyphosis or scoliosis are developed with various causes. Mild deformity of Spine does not change the cardiopulmonary function while the more aggravate the deformity of spine, the worse the cardiopulmonary function. In 1968, Nilsonne and Lundgren have reported that the mortality in patients with severe spinal deformity was twice as high as in normal person and heart or lung disease was the main cause of death. The problem of cardiopulmonary function should be considered in the treatment of pateints who have the severe deformity of the spine. The author studied the degree of curvature of spine, pulmonary function and its correlation in 18 cases of severe kyphosis or scolissis which deformities were caused from spinal tuberculosis poliomyelitis or idiopathic Scoliosis. The results of this study are as follows; 1. Over all average degree of kyphosis of spine was 101.4; vital capacity was 61. 1% of normal and maximum breating capacity was 84. 4% of normal. 2. Vital capacity and maxmium breating capacity have a significant negative correlation with the increase of kyphosis and scoliosis of the spine. 3. Vital capacity has a positive correlation with maximum breathing capacity in the increase of the kyphosis, but not significant. 4. Timed vital capacity was in normal limit in spite of the change of kyphosis and scoliosis of the spine. 5. Change of pulmonary function after surgical correction of the deformity of spine was discussed.
Cause of Death ; Congenital Abnormalities ; Forced Expiratory Volume ; Heart ; Humans ; Kyphosis ; Lung Diseases ; Mortality ; Poliomyelitis ; Respiration ; Scoliosis ; Spine ; Tuberculosis, Spinal ; Vital Capacity

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Neck* ; Urinary Bladder Neck Obstruction* ; Urinary Bladder*

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