No abstract available.
Heart* ; Thoracic Surgery*

The term “ganglion” was given by Hippocrates to designate a knot of tissue filled with mucin. A ganglion may be defined as a cystic benign tumor filled with a mucoid material usually surrounded by a thin wall and occurring in the region of the capsule and connective tissue of joints and tendon sheaths. The regions of the wrist, ankle, and knee and the volar regions of the fingers and hand are most frequently affected. The authors experienced a case of ganglion which had occurred at anteromedial aspect of right hip joint and had been connected with hip joint by cord like band.
Ankle ; Connective Tissue ; Fingers ; Ganglion Cysts ; Hand ; Hip Joint ; Hip ; Joints ; Knee ; Mucins ; Tendons ; Wrist

We reviewed 40 consecutive patients having a primary total hip replacement(THR) and 60 patients having a primary total knee replacement(TKR) for osteoarthritis to compare the qu;dity of hfe(QoL) before and after operation. Bilateral arthroplasties were perfomed 10 cases of THR and 25 cemes of TKR. We used a modified Harris hip score and a knee score of American knee society, the Rosser Lndex Matrix and authors eval- uation system to generate these scores. Quality of life was highly improved by Rossers and authors evalua- tion system after THR and TKR. The median values of QoL scores before and after operation were signifi- cantly different(p<0.05). The median preoperative QoL score in THR was t>etter than in TKR. Postoperative QoL scores for both groups were similar. Quality of life evaluated by Rossers score and authors evaluation system in bilateral THR was better than bilateral TKR. We think better quality of life in bilateral THR over bilateral TKR by authors evaluation system is because the hip joint is mcire stable and has better range of motion than knee joint. We conclude that change of life style including the use of bed, toilet seat elevation, and the use of dinning table will be neccesary after bilateral TKR.
Arthroplasty ; Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip* ; Climacteric ; Hip ; Hip Joint ; Humans ; Knee Joint ; Knee* ; Osteoarthritis ; Quality of Life* ; Range of Motion, Articular

No abstract available in English.
Clinical Study ; Femur ; Hip Fractures

A primary infection of the intervertebral disc in adult is an uncommon entity. Usually these patients are not actually ill and their symptoms have been present for some months. Pyogenic infection of the intervertebral disc in children was well documented by a number of authors,but this condition was less well recognized in the adult. We analysed 12 cases of discitis in adults which were treated at the Department of Orthopedic Surgery of Severance Hospital for 10 years from January 1975 to March 1984 by curettage and autogenous iliac bone graft through anterior approach. The results obtained from this study were as follows: 1. The average duration of symptoms before diagnosis was 9.6 months. 2. The lumbar spine was involved in 83% and next in thoracic spine. 3. The most prominent symptoms and signs are backache and local tenderness at the site of the lesion. 4. Ten patients had the preceding disease or definile past history of previous back surgery, myelogram, abscess, urinary tract infection, heavy lifting and back trauma. 5. The white cell count was of little value in the initial investigation, but the E.S.R. was raised in 67%. 6. Positive cultures from the intervertebral disc were obtained in 8 cases(67%). The causative organisms were 5 Staphylococcus, 2 E-coli, and 1 Pseudomonas aeruginosa. 7. The most common radiological finding on admission was narrowing of the intervertebral disc space, and the tomogram showed the most reliable finding for the preoperative diagnosis. 8. In the treatment, focal curettage or diskectomy and anterior fusion with autogenous iliac bone graft was done in all cases. Antibiotics were administrated for 4 to 10 weeks (average 5.5 weeks) after operation and the cast or brace was applied for immobilization. 9. Over-all clinical result were as follows; eight patients (67%) excellent, 3 patients good, 1 patient fair, and no recurrence.
Abscess ; Adult ; Anti-Bacterial Agents ; Back Pain ; Braces ; Cell Count ; Child ; Clinical Study ; Curettage ; Diagnosis ; Discitis ; Diskectomy ; Humans ; Immobilization ; Intervertebral Disc ; Lifting ; Orthopedics ; Pseudomonas aeruginosa ; Recurrence ; Spine ; Staphylococcus ; Transplants ; Urinary Tract Infections

The wrist, or carpus, is a deformable anatomic entity composed of 8 small carpal bones (scaphoid, lunate, triquetrum, pisiform, hamate, capitate, trapezium and trapezoid) and the surrounding soft-tissue structures. We should get radiological knowledge of normal wrist in order to identify pathology of that. So we measured the several values on AP, PA and lateral roentgenograms of 228 normal wrist(male : 124 cases, femal: 104 cases). The following results were obtained: 1. Scapholunate gap : 1.4±0.5mm 2. Ulnar variance : 1.3 ±1.7mm, Positive variance … 59.7%, Neutral variance … 25.4% 3. Carpal height ratio : 0.543 ±0.078 4. Carpal ulner distance ratio : 0.32 ±0.04 5. Scapholunate angle : 45.8 ± 8.7° 6. Capitatolunate angle : 19.3 ± 8.2° 7. Radiolunate angle : 8.9 ± 4.7° 8. Ulnar tilt: 23.5 ± 3.3° 9. Volar tilt: 12.0 ± 4.7°
Carpal Bones ; Pathology ; Wrist

No abstract available in English.
Tendons ; Tenosynovitis ; Wrist

Three hundred and fourty two patients with a fracture of tibial shaft were treated and managed in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Soon Chun Hyang University Hospital from January 1981 to December 1985. In 147 cases, 62 cases had only tibial shaft fracture and 85 tibial and fibular shaft fracture. All of these were treated conservatively by manipulation and cast immibilization. We analyzed the initial fracture characteristics, the treatment employed, and the subsequent complications in fracture healing in a series of patients who had sustained a tibial shaft fracture with and without a fibular fracture. The results were as follows; 1. Duration of average bone healing was more slowly in the patients more than twenty years old who were treated for a tibial shaft fracture with and without a concomitant fibular fracture than in the patients less than twenty years old. 2. Duration of average bone healing was more slowly by one or two weeks in the the group of tibial shaft fracture without fibular fracture than in than in those with fibular fracture. 3. The frequency of delayed union, nonunion, varus malunion and pain in the ipsilateral ankle joint were more increased in the group of the tibial shaft fractures without fibular fracture in than those with fibular fracture. 4. The frequency of valgus malunion was more increased in the group of the tibial shaft fractures with fibular fracture than in those without fibular fracture.
Ankle Joint ; Fracture Healing ; Humans ; Tibia

Simple bone cyst is a benign bone tumor occurring most frequently in the long bone. The pathogenesis is not yet fully known and there is no established mode of optimal treatment. In 1979, Scaglietti reported favorable results in the treatment of simple bone cyst with steroid injection. We have studied 23 cases of curettage with bone graft and 13 cases of steroid injection in 39 cases of histologically proven simple bone cyst in the department Orthopedic Surgery at College of Medicine Yousei University dating from Jan, 1970 to Jan. 1989. In 1 case out of 23 cases, there was no improvement in curettage with bone graft, and this cases was treated with steroid injection. There were 4 cases which did not receive any treatment except cast immobilization. In this case, the patient refused further treatment. The mean follow up period was 20.1 months and the results and conclusions were as follows:1. The average age of patients was 17.9 years, and incidence under 20 years was 74.4% The male to female ratio was 1.6 to l. 2. Twenty three cases were treated with curettage with bone graft. The average age of patients was 16.1 years, and there were 4 cases of recurrence of simple bone cyst (17.3% ). 3. Thirteen cases were treated with steriod injection. The average age of patient was 12.1 years, and there was 1 case of recurrence of simple bone cyst(7.6%). There were 6 cases who were completely healed after one steroid injection, 3 cases after 3 injections, 1 case after 4 injection, and 3 cases who had a maximun of 5 injections. 4. The difference was statistically significant from equality (p<0.05). The steroid injection method is a more simple and a more safe procedure than curettage with bone graft, and can be done at the Out-Patient Department. Steroid injection may be repeated in persisting and recurrent simple bone cyst.
Bone Cysts ; Curettage ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Immobilization ; Incidence ; Male ; Methods ; Orthopedics ; Outpatients ; Recurrence ; Transplants

Osteoclasts resorb bone by the hydrogen ions and proteolytic enzymes in the localize environment under the ruffled border. Before releasing hydrogen ion and enzymes, osteoclast should attach to bone surface very tightly and make a room to release enzymes and hydrogen ion in the center. Specialized attachment molecule in the cell membrane, such as integrin, is associated with specific noncollagenous protein in the matrix, which has specific amino acid sequence (Arginine-Glycine- Aspartic acid sequence). We may speculate that osteoclast action would be decreased if the integrin is blocked by antibody or RGD protein. In this study, the osteoclasts were cultured on the coverslip or bone slice with or without RGD protein in the culture medium, and numbers of growing giant cells were much less in group with RGD protein. The number resorption pits, formed on mineralized bone slice, was also lower in the group adding RGD protein in the medium. And we made a conclusion that the osteoclastic bone resorption was inhibited by soluble RGD protein.
Amino Acid Sequence ; Aspartic Acid ; Bone Resorption ; Cell Membrane ; Giant Cells ; Osteoclasts* ; Peptide Hydrolases ; Protons