The auther analysed 29 patients who were treated with prednisolone, including nephrotic syndrome (13 cases), acute leukemia(10 cases), bronchial asthma (2 cases), juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (2 cases) and ulcerative colitis (1 cases) patients in childhood, after remission induction, pro9longed alternate or interrupted treatment was used. The auther observed patterns of height velocity of these patients from 1.6 to 10.3 years. The results were as follow 1) Of the total 29 patients who were treated with prednisolone, most of them showed normal height velocity within the percentile channels, but 4 cases (13.8%) of them showed delay in height velocity. 2) The 4 cases who delayed in height velocity, including 2 cases of bronchial asthma and 2 cases of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis patients, received prednisolone daily about 0.4~1.5mg/kg from 3 to 6 years alternatively or interruptedly. Height velocity was decreased from bet ween 3 and 25 percentile channel at first to below 3 percentile channel at last contiously. 3) In these 4 cases, height velocity was inversely proportion to dosage of prednisolone.
Arthritis, Juvenile ; Asthma ; Colitis, Ulcerative ; Humans ; Nephrotic Syndrome ; Prednisolone ; Remission Induction

It is well known that double contrast knee arthrography is useful in diagnosis of meniscal lesions and other knee pathology, But intra-articular structures become less well delineated shortly after injection into the kneejoint with water soluble contrast media because of rapid absorption and dilution of the injected media. This limits the time when sharply detailed arthrograms are obtainable and precludes repeat delayed arthrogram withougreinjection of contrast media. In order to overcome this major disadvantage, the authors used epinephrine which has vasoconstrictive effect and is expected to reduce fluid movement across the synovial membrane temporarily. The authors attempted to compare epinephrine inhanced double contrast arthrographic group, einephrine(+) group, to thedouble contrast arthrographic group withoug epinephrine, epinephrine(-) group, by statistical evaluation. Eachgroup consisted of 35 cases and 7 lateral films of knee joint were taken sequentially 2,6,10,15,10,20,30, and 60 minutes after injection of contrast media, and were assessed by 5 certified radiologists. The resuls were as follows; 1. The difference of mean score of quality between epinephrine(+) group and epinephrine(-) group was statistically significant at every time interval (p value<0.01 at 2 minutes, p<0.01 at all other time intervals).Epinephrine(+) group was superior to the epinephrine(-) group in quality of film. 2. Numbers of cases above scoreof 2 which was considered to be of diagnostic quality in evaluating meniscal lesions were larger in epinephrine(+)group than epinephrine(-) group in quality of film. 3. Only 43% of cases was above score of 2 at 10 minutes inepinephrine (-) group, but 97% at 10 minutes and 80% at 20 minutes respectively in epinephrine(+) group. Therefore duration for adequate study of arthrogram is prolonged more than two times in epinephrine(+) group. 4. At 30 minuts, 57% of cases was above score of 2 in epinephrine(+) group while at 15 minuts, 80% of cases was below scoreof 2 in epinephrine(-) group. This makes it possible to repeat study without additional injection of contrast media or postponing of the examination in half of cases, if necessary. 5. The use of epinephrine in kneearthrography results in significant enhancement of radiographic quality initially (p<0.01). Therefore we can fluoroscope in good condition and obtain films of fine quality.
Absorption ; Arthrography ; Contrast Media ; Diagnosis ; Epinephrine ; Knee Joint ; Knee ; Pathology ; Synovial Membrane ; Water

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Alleles* ; Base Sequence* ; DNA* ; HLA-DR4 Antigen* ; HLA-DRB1 Chains*

It is the purpose of this article to determine various normal anatomic measurements of temporomandibular joint and normal range of condylar movement using relatively simple X-ray equipment and radiographic technique in consideration of popular clinical application. Author's cases condisted of 100 clinically normal adult males and temporomandibular joint radiographs of 3 serial position so condylar head were taken by transcranial obliquelateral pojection in each case. The serial positions are centric occlusion, 1 inch opening and maximal opening position. The results were as follows; 1. In cetric occlusion, the length between the condylar head and glenoidfossa was 2.23±0.58mm in anterior part, 3.55±0.80mm in upper part and 2.76±0.72mm in posterior part. 2. Incentric occlusion, the angle (alpha) between the horizontal standard line(AB) and anterior slope (BC) was 37.22±3.87 degrees. 3. In 1 inch opening position, the distance between the summit of condylar head from thestandard point of articular eminence (B) was
Adult ; Head ; Humans ; Male ; Mandible ; Reference Values ; Temporomandibular Joint

Legg-Calve-Perthes disease is a hip disorder of undetermined etiology, occurring in children and charaterized by necrosis and repair of the proximal femoral epiphysis. Its etiology and treatment continue to command intense interest among orthopaedic surgeons. It is the purpose of this paper to evaluate the result of our experience in the selected patients with Legg-Calve-Parthes disease treated by innominate osteotomy, In this study, six cases of Legg-Calve-Perthes disease treated at Severance Hospital from March 1976 to November 1978 were analysed clinically, and gratifying results were obtained.
Child ; Epiphyses ; Hip ; Humans ; Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease ; Necrosis ; Osteotomy ; Surgeons

Many procedures of quadricepsplasty were reported by Thompson (1944), Judet (1959), van Nes (1962), Nicoll (1963) and Hesketh (1963) in confining the indication of them for the strictly extra-articular origin of their causes. During the period of January 1979 to August 1979, 5 cases of stiff knee joints were surgically treated by means of arthrolysis and quadriceps release. The result were gratifying. The average gain of flexion was 119 degrees, and extension lag was absent except a case which had compression fracture of femoral condyle.
Fractures, Compression ; Knee Joint ; Knee

We report a case of trichorrhexis nodosa in 16-year-old male. Multiple broken hair patches were seen on the both eyebrows. Scanning electron micrascopic findings revealed typical trichorrhexis nodosa; nodular swelling of hair shaft, loss of hair cuticle, longitudinal fissuring and fracture of hair cortex, and paintbrush effect on the side of fracture. Simple avoidance of trauma gave some regrowth of hair. Intralesinional administration of triamcinolone acetonide was not to be effective.
Adolescent ; Eyebrows* ; Hair ; Humans ; Male ; Triamcinolone Acetonide

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to develop an effective and efficient obesity treatment and management service platform for obese children/teenagers. METHODS: The integrated smart platform was planned and established through cooperation with service providers such as hospitals and public health centers, obese children/teenagers who constitute the service's user base, and IT development and policy institutions and companies focusing on child-teen obesity management and treatment. RESULTS: Based on guidelines on intervention strategies to manage child-teen obesity, we developed two patient/parent mobile applications, one web-monitoring service for medical staff, one mobile application for food-craving endurance, and one mobile application for medical examinations. CONCLUSIONS: The establishment of the integrated service platform was successfully completed; however, this study was restrictively to the hospital where the pilot program took place. The effectiveness of the proposed platform will be verified in the future in tests involving other organizations.
Delivery of Health Care ; Humans ; Medical Staff ; Mobile Applications ; Obesity* ; Pediatric Obesity ; Public Health ; User-Computer Interface

Compensatory hypertrophy of muscle fibers has been known to occur when burden on a skeletal muscle is increased. However, there have not been reports concerning the response of extraocular muscles following a monocular resection and recession of horizontal muscles, which procedure is a common form of strabismus surgery. A large lateral rectus resection and medial rectus recession was performed in each right eye of 28 rats. After the horizontal muscle surgery, both medial and lateral rectus muscles were obtained from both eyes of each rat with an interval of 2 weeks from the initial operation until 8th week after operation. A mid-portion of an extirpated muscles were frozen and prepared for ATPase staining. With a differential preincubation in two buffered solutions, pH 4.6 and pH 10.3 and ATPase staining, muscle fibers were classified into 3 kinds-global singly innervated fiber(GSIF, alkali-stable), global multi-innervated fiber(GMIF, alkali-labile), and orbital surface layer fiber(OSLF). These muscle fibers were measured using micrometer to find out their diameters and compared with the diameter of extraocular muscle fibers of unoperated rats. All kinds of muscle fibers of a resected lateral rectus showed an increase in their diameteris(p<0.05, Wilcoxon rank sum test) but there was no hypertrophy in the recessed medial rectus the yolk muscle of the resected lateral rectus, medial rectus of the fellow eye also showed hypertrophy of GMIF and OSLF. The lateral rectus of the unoperated fellow eye did not reveal muscle fiber hypertrophy. The postoperative hypertrophy of muscle fibers were observed only at the 2nd and 4th postoperative week specimens. the hypertrophied muscles subsequently returned to the baseline fiber diameter.
Adenosine Triphosphatases ; Animals ; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration ; Hypertrophy* ; Muscle, Skeletal ; Muscles ; Orbit ; Rats* ; Strabismus

BACKGROUND: The purpose of our study was to evaluate the accuracy of reduction based on postoperative computed tomography (CT) images after arthroscopic stabilization using tightrope system for unstable distal clavicle fracture. METHODS: Twelve patients with distal clavicle fracture combined with coracoclavicular (CC) ligament injury (type II, V) who received arthroscopically assisted fixation using a flip button device were evaluated for accuracy of reduction using 3-dimensional postoperative CT scan by measuring the degree of distal clavicular angulation and clavicular shortening. RESULTS: Immediate postoperative plain radiograph confirmed restoration of the CC distance (CCD) in 10 patients. At final follow-up, the CCD remained reduced anatomically on plain radiographs in these patients. All patients showed excessive posterior angulation and shortening compared to the opposite side. The average Constant score recovered to 94.8 at final follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: Indirect reduction and arthroscopic subacromial approach with flip button fixation of unstable distal clavicle fractures demonstrated favorable clinical results despite unavoidable posterior angulation of distal clavicle and shortening the total length of clavicle.
Arthroscopy ; Clavicle ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Ligaments ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed