No abstract available.
Dysentery, Bacillary*

No abstract available in English.
Congenital Abnormalities

Venous hemangioma is a vascular tumor that has been reported by such diverse names as; "cirsoid aneurysm", "arteriovenous hemangioma", "acral arteriovenous tumor" according to the author's opinions of its origin and histopathologic classification. It is benign and rarely biopsied, and it is also rarely reported in dermatology literature. We present two cases of venous hemangioma. The first case was a 64-year-old man who was presented with an elliptical dark-red plaque with overlying several grouped papules on the left periorbital area which had been present for 7 years. The second case was a 56-year-old man who was presented with a single red papule on the right postauricular area which had been present for 4 months. Histopathologically, there were a well-circumscribed proliferation of thick-walled muscle-containing blood vessels in the dermis. Intermingled with the thick-walled blood vessels, there were also thin-walled dilated blood vessels. In both cases, the thick-walled blood vessels resembled arteries, but they lacked elastic fibers on the Verhoeff van Gieson stain.
Arteries ; Blood Vessels ; Classification ; Dermatology ; Dermis ; Elastic Tissue ; Hemangioma* ; Humans ; Middle Aged

No abstract available.
Blood Platelets* ; Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation* ; Platelet Activation*

Cutaneous smooth muscle hamartomas are benign proliferations of smooth muscle bundles within the dermis. They can be congenital or acquired, and most cases are congenital. Congenital smooth muscle hamartomas (CSMHs) usually manifest at birth as well-circumscribed, frequently hypertrichotic, hyperpigmented or skin-colored patches or plaques on trunk or extremities. We report a case of CSMH in a 10 year-old girl, who showed a localized skin-colored patch showing prominent follicular papules on the lateral aspect of her right upper arm, which were found at birth. There was no hypertrichosis and the pseudo-Darier sign was negative. This patchy follicular variant is the less common clinical type of the disease.
Arm ; Dermis ; Extremities ; Female ; Hamartoma* ; Humans ; Hypertrichosis ; Muscle, Smooth* ; Parturition

Although a number of remedies like corticosteroids, retinoids, griseofulvin, PUVA, cyclosporine, antibiotics, dapsone, cyclophosphamide, surgery, methotrexate, radiation therapy, antimalarial drugs, psychotharapy and psychiatric medications have been used to treat lichen planus, there were no specific methods until now. We report herein an interesting case of lichen planus in which complete healing was achieved by griseofulvin administration. The patient was a 54-year-old male who for 3 months had variouly sized and shaped, flat-topped, scaly, violaceous papules and plaques on the whole of his body. We confirmed the patients disease as lichen planus by a histopathologic examination of a skin biopsy specimen and gave him 500mg ultramicronized griseofulvin daily in divided dosages. After 12 weeks of the medication nearly all of the skin lesions were regressed, and by 14 weeks all skin lesions had disappeared leaving hyperpigmentation. Up to now, l9 months after discontinuation of the medication, no recurrence of the disease has been noted.
Adrenal Cortex Hormones ; Anti-Bacterial Agents ; Antimalarials ; Biopsy ; Cyclophosphamide ; Cyclosporine ; Dapsone ; Griseofulvin* ; Humans ; Hyperpigmentation ; Lichen Planus* ; Lichens* ; Male ; Methotrexate ; Middle Aged ; Recurrence ; Retinoids ; Skin

Since the communicable disease trend changes rapidly, many nations have developed communicable disease surveillance system according to their system. Among the surveillance, the laboratory based surveillance system has been particulary important for epidemiological analysis of various communicable diseases. Some communicable diseases, such as salmonellosis and shigellosis can be monitored accurately only through the laboratory based surveillance system because of the nonspecificity of the clinical syndrome. And clinical surveillance data are confirmed with laboratory findings can have substantial impacts of reporting rate and can increase the reliablity of survillance data. The current communicable disease surveillance system in Korea is notitiable disease report system and has problems in representativeness of reports and reporting rate. The object of this study is to find problems of present laboratory based surveillance system in Korea and to suggest implementation strategies.
Communicable Diseases* ; Dysentery, Bacillary ; Korea* ; Salmonella Infections

No abstract available.
Diarrhea* ; Follow-Up Studies* ; Milk Hypersensitivity* ; Milk*

Many diagnostic tools, which record eye movement, are available for diagnosis and treatment of the patients with impaired eye movement. Most of these tools cannot record directly the eye movement but record electrical analog signal developed when eyeball moves through electrode attached on skin or sclera. Because they need a fixation device, they may bring a patient discomfort. It is well known that digital recording device is not interfered by external noise signal and that its reproducibility is acceptable. We have developed a noninvasive, direct, and precise technique for recording eye movement and verified its reproducibility. We video-taped the horizontal and vertical eye movement and processed the captured images digitally using a image analysis program. the result showed the frequency energy of eye movement in the range within 6Hz and at 10 or 11Hz. The eye movement was observed more clearly after filtering the low frequency energy by inverse Fourier transformation. The reproducibility for measurements of total variability were as follows; vertical displacement measurements, 1.21%; horizontal displacement measurements, 0.68%. In conclusion, this new technique is easy and comfortable to examiner and patient. Its reproducibility was acceptable. Thus it may served as a substitute of conventional tools for recording eye movement.
Diagnosis ; Electrodes ; Eye Movements* ; Fourier Analysis ; Humans ; Noise ; Sclera ; Skin

No abstract available.
Child* ; Humans