No abstract available.
Meningitis, Cryptococcal*

No abstract available.
Brain Abscess* ; Brain*

No abstract available.
Brain Abscess* ; Brain*

No abstract available in English.
Achilles Tendon ; Rupture

In the treatment of posterior cruciate ligament injury, posterior displacerrient of tibia might be occured because of the direction of gravity due to weight of lower leg. To prevent this problem several methods have been introduced, but not settled yet. Therfore the author tried to solve this problem by applying Quengel brace that was firstly described by Mommsen in 1922 and perfected by Jordan using the correction of flexion contracture of the knee in hemophiliacs. But owing to the development of some problems in original hinge for prevention of posterior displacement of tibia after posterior cruciate ligament injury, we modified the design of the hinge that more effective anterior traction force should be operated on tibia. The authors applied Quengel brace including original and modified hinge to 21 cases of posterior cruciate ligament injury between June 1983 and May 1986. The followings were obtained. 1. By modification of the hinge, more effective anterior traction force operated on tibia without pressure sore or joint narrowing. 2. On clinical application of modified Quengel brace, posterior displacement of tibia were prevented effectively.
Braces ; Contracture ; Gravitation ; Joints ; Jordan ; Knee ; Leg ; Posterior Cruciate Ligament ; Pressure Ulcer ; Tibia ; Traction

No abstract available.
Rhizotomy* ; Trigeminal Neuralgia*

No abstract available.
Nephrotic Syndrome*

The deoxyribonucleic acid content was determined in 50 cases of renal cell carcinoma by means of flow cytometric analysis of paraffin-embedded specimens. Of these, 22 cases (44%) were diploid and 28 cases (56% ) were aneuploid. The incidence of aneuploid pattern according to histological grade was 38% in high grade and 75% in low grade with statistical difference. The ploidy status did not correlate with tumor stage, tumor cell type or presence of microvascular invasion. Of 22 cases in which two separate specimens were analyzed from each primary tumor. intratumoral heterogeneity of ploidy status was observed in 9 cases(41%). Of 13 cases in which specimens from both primary tumor and regional metastatic lesions were analyzed, intertumoral heterogeneity was observed in 8 cases(62%). A close correlation between tumor stage and prognosis was observed. The prognostic difference according to histological grade. tumor cell type or presence ol microvascular invasion was statistically unacceptable. The 5-year survival rate according to ploidy status was 77% in diploid tumors and 47% in aneuploid tumors with statistical significance, but no significant difference in overall survival was observed. Among the patients without metastasis of renal cell carcinoma. those with diploid tumors had better prognoses in comparison to those with aneuploid tumors. Conclusively, DNA content in renal cell carcinoma analyzed by FCM had shown the coexistence of intratumoral and intertumoral heterogeneities and is considered to be an important prognostic stratifier in renal cell carcinoma without metastasis.
Aneuploidy ; Carcinoma, Renal Cell* ; Diploidy ; DNA* ; Flow Cytometry ; Humans ; Incidence ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Ploidies ; Population Characteristics ; Prognosis ; Survival Rate

No abstract available.
Ataxia* ; Brain Stem Neoplasms* ; Mesencephalon*

No abstract available.