1.Study on the Death Rates and Causes of Death.
Korean Journal of Preventive Medicine 1977;10(1):142-149
To use basic data for health planning and evaluation of Kangwha community health project of Yonsei University, a study on death rates and causes of death were investigated in two townships (Naega and Sunwon Myuns) in Kangwha County from April 1, 1975 to March 31, 1977). All death was identified and reported by family health workers who are living in each village and 2 trained public health nurses confirmed the death. The causes of death were investigated by 2 public physicians. Total number of deaths for 2 years was 230 and the followings are brief summary of the study. 1. Age-adjusted crude death rates of study area were 8.69 per 1,000 population in 1975 and 7.18 per 1,000 population in 1976. Age-adjusted crude death rates for male were 9.18 in 1975 and 6.38 in 1976 and for female were 8.33 and 7.80 per 1,000 population. 2. Age specific death rate curves by year and sex showed "U" shapes. 3. Infant and neonatal death rates were 30.08 and 22.56 per 1,000 live births in 1975, and the rates in 1976 were 18.18 and 13.64. 4. The most common cause of death was cerebrovascular disease and average cause specific death rate for the disease was 215.5 per 100,000 population. 5. Four leading causes of death were non-infectious origin ; cerevrovascular disease, malignant neoplasms, senility and suicide. Pulmonaty tubeculosis and pneumonia occupied 5th and 9th causes of death. 6. Stomach cancer and hepatoma occupied 61.3% of total death due to malignant neoplasms. 7. Most frequent cause of neonatal death was birth injury. Two deaths due to tetanus were found in 1975, but no death due to this disease was found in 1976. 8. About half of deceased received care from physician before death.
Birth Injuries
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Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
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Cause of Death*
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Family Health
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Female
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Health Planning
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Humans
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Infant
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Live Birth
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Male
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Mortality*
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Nurses, Public Health
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Pneumonia
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Stomach Neoplasms
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Suicide
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Tetanus
2.Complete torsion of the gallbladder.
Journal of the Korean Surgical Society 1992;42(4):554-557
No abstract available.
Gallbladder*
3.Choroidoretinal Vascular Anastomoses After Chorioretinal Rupture.
Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1991;32(9):776-780
Numerous cicatrizing and granulomatous diseases that simultaneously involve choroid, retina and their intervening Bruch's membrane may cause choroidoretinal vascular anastomoses. Anastomoses at capillary level and in neovascular granulomatous tissue are probably not uncommon under these and related circumstances, but choroidal connections to large-caliber segments of otherwise normal retinal arterioles and venules are unusual. We retrospectively studied 44 eyes of 44 patients with choroidal ruptures after blunt trauma. Of 44 choroidal ruptures, three patients had chorioretinal ruptures and choroidoretinal vascular anastomoses. This report describes three cases of large-caliber choroidoretinal anastomoses after chorioretinal ruptures.
5.Subacute necrotizing encephalomyelopathy(=Leigh's disease).
So Young KIM ; Heung Ki MIN ; Byung Churl LEE
Journal of the Korean Pediatric Society 1992;35(3):395-398
No abstract available.
6.Conservative Treatment of Achilles Tendon Rupture
Eun Woo LEE ; Ki Sir KANG ; Byung Woo AHN
The Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association 1983;18(6):1193-1197
No abstract available in English.
Achilles Tendon
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Rupture
7.The Prevention of Posterior Displacement of Tibia During Treatment of Posterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Using Modified Quengel Hinge
Eun Woo LEE ; Soo Yong KANG ; Byung Ki LIM
The Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association 1986;21(5):901-906
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
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Contracture
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Gravitation
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Joints
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Jordan
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Knee
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Leg
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Posterior Cruciate Ligament
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Pressure Ulcer
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Tibia
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Traction
8.Complications in the Treatment of Comminuted Fracture and Nonunion by Ilizarov Procedure
Gang Wook LEE ; Ki Hwan KIM ; Byung Yun HWANG
The Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association 1995;30(5):1396-1403
We reviewed the records of thirty-four patients who had been managed with the Ilizarov technique for the comminuted intra- and extra-articular fractures and nonunion of the long bones with or with-out bone defect. The goal of this study is to analysis the clinical complications of the Ilizarov technique, and to find out the methods solving them. 1. This study comprises 34 patients who were treated by Ilizarov technique at the Chonbuk National University Hospital from March, 1992 to June, 1993. 2. Among 34 cases, 22 were comminuted intra- and extra-articular fractures, and 12 were nonunion of the long bones. 3. The complications were divided intd problem, obstacle and complication; problem in 16 cases, obstacle in 11 cases and complication in 6 cases. 4. We conclude that the Ilizarov technique is a useful method in management of the severe commi- nuted fractures and the nonunion of the long bones, but we have to consider the complication sincerely and endeavor to reduce them.
Fractures, Comminuted
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Humans
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Ilizarov Technique
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Jeollabuk-do
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Methods
9.IgG anti-IgE autoantibody in atopic or non-atopic asthmatic children: positive rate and IgG subclasses.
Soo Young LEE ; Byung Ju JEOUNG ; Kyu Earn KI ; Dong Soo KIM ; Ki Young LEE
Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Disease 1993;3(1):98-104
No abstract available.
Child*
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Humans
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Immunoglobulin G*
10.Sexual Precocity:Sex Incidence and Etiology.
Ki Hun SONG ; Moon Young SONG ; Byung Kyu SUH ; Byung Churl LEE
Journal of Korean Society of Pediatric Endocrinology 1997;2(2):226-232
PURPOSE:Differential diagnosis of sexual precocity has been aided by new imaging techniques and endocrine evaluation. Sexual precocity, defined as the appearance of secondary sexual characteristics before the age of 8 years in girls and 9 years in boys, was studied to evaluate the sex incidence and etiology of sexual precocity. METHODS:A total 95 children(87 girls and 8 boys) who were diagnosed with sexual precocity at St. Mary's Hospital, Catholic University Medical College from 1984 to 1996, were studied. All underwent standard anthropometric measures. They were assinged to diagnostic categories on the basis of clinical assessment, endocrine evaluation, radiologic imaging, and pelvic ultrasonography. RESULTS: 1) The most common cause of sexual precocity was premature thelarche, 50 cases(52.6%) of all children. 2) Central precocious puberty was noted in 7 girls and 3 boys(female to male ratio 2.3:1). The causes were not identified in 6 cases(85.7%) in girls, but the causes were not found in 1 cases(33.3%) in boys. The idiopathic central precocious puberty occurs at least two fold more frequently in girls than in boys. 3) Incomplete precocious puberty was noted in 29 girls and 5 boys(female to male ratio 5.8:1). In the causes of 29 girls with incomplete precocious puberty, congenital adrenal hyperplasia were found in 23 cases, autonomous functional ovarian cyst in 5 cases and McCune-Albright syndrome in 1 case. In the causes of 5 boys with incomplete precocious puberty, virilizing adrenal cortical tumor were found in 3 cases, congenital adrenal hyperplasia in 1 case, and hepatoblastoma in 1 case. CONCLUSION: Sexual precocity occurs at least ten fold more frequently in girls than in boys. Premature thelarche is the most common form of sexual precocity.
Adrenal Hyperplasia, Congenital
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Child
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Diagnosis
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Female
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Fibrous Dysplasia, Polyostotic
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Hepatoblastoma
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Humans
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Incidence*
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Male
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Ovarian Cysts
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Puberty, Precocious
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Ultrasonography