Segmental Spinal Instrumentation is effective operative procedure in unstable fracture and fracture-dislocation of the thoracolumbar spine, providing rigid spinal stability and reduces needs of external support and complications. Fifty nine patients with unstable fracture and fracture-dislocation of thoracolumbar spine were treated with Harrington rod instrumentation and sublaminar wiring(31 patients) and Luque rod instrumentation with sublaminar wiring(28 patients) in Hyun Dai Hae Seong Hospital, Ulsan, Paik Hospital, Pusan from Dec. 1983 to April 1986. We have analyzed the results of treatment about two type of S.S.I. and obtained following conclusions; l. In 59 patients, T12 level injury was 17 cases, Ll level was 25 cases and so T12 and Ll involvement were 71%. 2. By Francis Denis classification, 28 cases were burst type fracture, 20 cases were fracture-dislocation type, 6 cases were seat belt type and 5 cases were wedge compression type. 3. In Harrington rod with S.S.I., initial kyphotic angle was 22.4° and postoperative angle was 7.4° and correction rate was 66.9%; in Luque rod with S.S.I., preoperative kyphotic angle was 21.7° and postoperative angle was 6.5° and correction rate 69.6%. So there was no difference of correction rate in two type of S.S.I. 4. In Harrington rod with S.S.I., the loss of reduction was 1.2° and the loss was 7%; in Luque rod with S.S.I., the loss of reduction was 7.2° and the loss rate was 48%. So the loss of reduction of Luque rod with S.S.I. was greater than that of Harrington rod with S.S.I. 5. After removal of implants, Luque rod with S.S.I. patients have better range of motion than Harrington rod with S.S.I. patients clinically, but it needs more follow-up because of a few cases(18 cases).
Busan ; Classification ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Range of Motion, Articular ; Seat Belts ; Spine ; Surgical Procedures, Operative ; Ulsan

No abstract available.
Child* ; Humans ; Joints* ; Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular*

PURPOSE: The development of a social system or a national economic state is accompanied by a proportional increase in the number of the aged. As the social activity of geriatric people increase, the frequency of traumatic injury also increases. In this study, to prevent geriatric trauma and to reduce medical expenses, we analyzed the factors that influence the incidence and the severity of geriatric trauma and the correlation between the factors. METHOD: The subjects of our investigation ware trauma patients over sixty-five years old who visited the Emergency Department of Yeungnam University Hospital during a period from January 1, 2003, to December 31, 2003. We retrospectively reviewed the medical charts of 436 geriatric trauma patients, and we analyzed the data by using SPSS 12.0 for Window(R). RESULT: The average age was 72.8 years, and the ratio of males to females was 1:1.1. The mean Injury Severity Score(ISS) was 10.8, and no difference was found between male and female. The mean hospitalization days were higher in patients who had a past medical history or who had a complications. Slips were the most common cause of trauma(199, 44.3%). Bicycle accidents and cultivator accidents were more common for males, but slips were more common for females. Bicycle accidents and in-car traffic accidents tended to cause longer hospitalization days. The largest number of aged trauma patients, 46, occurred during May and the smallest number, 24, during December. In addition, summer had the largest number of aged trauma patients, 93. The types of trauma, ISS, and numbers of patients did not correlate with season. The number of patients was increased on partly cloudy days, and the incidence of complication was increased in cultivator accident patients. CONCLUSION: Aged trauma patients who visit the ED for trauma must not overlook on the basis of their normal vital signs. For males, safety education is required when riding bicycles, motorcycles and cultivators. For females, encouragement to use walking aids that can prevent slips will reduce the occurrence of injury. Patients who visit by in-car TA, cultivator accidents, or bicycle accidents or who have a past medical history need to be give more care to reduce complications after hospitalization. Additionally, many side efforts must be initiated in order to reduce trauma in aged people.
Accidents, Traffic ; Education ; Emergency Service, Hospital ; Female ; Geriatrics ; Hospitalization ; Humans ; Incidence* ; Male ; Motorcycles ; Retrospective Studies ; Seasons ; Vital Signs ; Walking

We experienced a case of split hand split foot(SHSF) anomaly in a male neonate who had a deficiency of the middle finger, syndactyly of the 1st and 2nd finger and a deep median cleft in both hands. He also had a deep median cleft between 2nd and 3rd toe, syndactyly of the 1st and 2nd, 3rd and 4th toe without deficiency of the middle toe in both feet. SHSF anomaly may occur either isolated or associated with other anomalies. In this case, it occurd sporadically without family history and showed an isolated type without any other specific anomalies except both posterior iris synechiae. The karyotype of patient showed 46,XY,t(7p:14q) which has not been reported yet. We reported the case with the review of the associated literatures.
Fingers ; Foot* ; Hand* ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; Iris ; Karyotype ; Male ; Syndactyly ; Toes

No abstract available.
Humans ; KB Cells* ; NADP* ; NADPH Oxidase ; Oxidoreductases* ; Porphyromonas gingivalis* ; Porphyromonas*

BACKGROUND & SIGNIFICANCE: Focal seizures are usually due to an underlying structural lesion of the brain but occasionally caused by metabolic disturbances such as nonketotic hyperglycemia (NKH). Reflex focal seizures associated with NKH have been reported. CASE: The 69 year-old man was admitted in our hospital due to clonic movements of the right leg. His seizures did not occur spontaneously but were provoked by active or passive movements and tactile stimulation of the affected leg. The convulsive movements of the right leg often spread to the left leg without involving any other parts of his body. The seizures regressed with the control of hyperglycemia only. COMMENT: We report a patient presented with reflex focal seizures as the initial manifest-ation of NKH.
Aged ; Brain ; Humans ; Hyperglycemia* ; Leg ; Reflex* ; Seizures*

The determination of the embolic source is crucial to understanding the pathogenesis of ischemic stroke, the initiation of appropriate therapy, and the prevention of recurrent infarctions. In this study we undertook to identify the characteristic features on magnetic resonance images of patients who had suffered from stroke due to cardiac embolism (CE), as classified by TOAST (possible and probable). We retrospectively studied magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings of patients with ischemic stroke from the Yonsei Stroke Registry (YSR). On the basis of the TOAST classification, 92 patients were identified to have a potential cardiac source of embolism (PCSE), in which 69 patients were found to have high-risk PCSE and 23 patients medium-risk PCSE. To compare their imaging characteristics, another group of 49 patients who were found to have had a stroke due to large artery-to-artery (ATA) embolism-common or internal carotid artery (CCA, ICA)-were identified. Involvement of the simultaneous superficial and deep territories (58.7%; 6.1%, p < 0.001), and combined new anterior and old posterior circulation (15.2%; 2.0%, p = 0.016) were more frequent in PCSE than ATA embolism. Bilateral anterior hemispheric involvement was also more frequent in the PCSE group, but it did not reach statistical significance (13.0%; 4.1%, p = 0.090). ATA embolism tended to involve only superficial territories compared to PCSE (71.4%; 28.3%, p < 0.001). There were no topographic differences between the high-risk and medium-risk groups. With respect to the etiology of PCSE in our population, atrial fibrillation was the most common. Characteristic MRI features of patients with PCSE, which were not documented previously by computed tomography (CT) included: old and new, involvement of multiple different vascular territories, bilateral anterior hemisphere, as well as anterior and posterior circulation. These MRI features, together with simultaneous superficial and deep territorial involvement, help to differentiate the underlying embolic sources, whether they are cardiac or ATA in origin.
Cerebral Infarction/diagnosis* ; Coronary Disease/diagnosis* ; Echocardiography, Transesophageal ; Human ; Intracranial Embolism/diagnosis* ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Registries ; Retrospective Studies

Adenosquamous carcinoma of the pancreas is a rare tumor, which is difficult to diagnose. A 65-year-old man was admitted complaining of abdominal pain. Abdominal computed tomography (CT) demonstrated a cystic mass in the pancreatic body. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) showed an approximate 1.0 cm-sized hypoechoic cystic mass with a solid portion in the pancreatic body and narrowing of the main pancreatic duct. Under the impression of acute pancreatitis with a pseudocyst diagnosis, medical therapy including pancreatic stent insertion was administered to the patient for 4 weeks. A distal pancreatectomy was performed with the suspicion of pancreatic cancer due to the remaining mass on a follow-up CT scan, and the tumor was histopathologically diagnosed as stage I (TNM classification) adenosquamous carcinoma of the pancreatic body. The patient was discharged without any problems and has been on follow-up without recurrence. We report a case of adenosquamous carcinoma of the pancreas that was diagnosed relatively early with the help of EUS.
Abdominal Pain ; Aged ; Carcinoma, Adenosquamous ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Pancreas ; Pancreatectomy ; Pancreatic Ducts ; Pancreatic Neoplasms ; Pancreatitis ; Recurrence ; Stents

PURPOSE: Mycoplasma pneumoniae(M. pneumoniae) is classified into two groups(I and II) by difference of DNA sequences in P1 protein. Between these two groups, there are some different immune responses and disease severity. M. pneumoniae pneumonia have epidemic outbreaks occurring every three to seven years and these outbreaks are related with rising of either group I or II. We studied cases of M. pneumoniae pneumonia during the past six years(November 1996-October 2002), to evaluate the prevalence and yearly distribution of each group. METHODS: We enrolled 504 patients out of 547 patients, who were admitted to the Department of Pediatrics, Sung-Ae and Kwangmyung Sung-Ae General Hospital from November 1996 to October 2002. They were diagnosed as M. pneumoniae pneumonia by clinical characteristics and indirect particle agglutination test of M. pneumoniae. To classify into two groups, the group specific polymerase chain reaction amplification were performed using specific oligonucleotide primers designed for P1 gene genotyping. RESULTS: Group I(91.7%) occured more frequently than group II(8.3%) during the study period. There were outbreaks of M. pneumoniae pneumonia in 1997 and 2000, which showed epidemics of M. pneumoniae pneumonia were occuring every three or four years, but there was no exchange phenomenon between the two groups. CONCLUSION: Group I was more prevalent than group II with a three years cycle of epidemic outbreak from 1997 to 2002 in Korea. But, six years of research is a relatively short time to compare immune responses, disease severity and exchange phenomenon between the two groups. Further follow-up study will be needed for the epidemiologic and clinical studies of M. pneumoniae in Korea.
Agglutination Tests ; Base Sequence ; Child* ; Disease Outbreaks ; DNA Primers ; Hospitals, General ; Humans ; Korea ; Mycoplasma pneumoniae* ; Mycoplasma* ; Pediatrics ; Pneumonia ; Pneumonia, Mycoplasma* ; Polymerase Chain Reaction ; Prevalence

Eugenol (4-allyl-2-methoxyphenol), a major ingredient of herbs such as clove and Magnoliae Flos, is known to induce apoptosis in mast cells via p53 pathway. This study was undertaken to examine the in vivo effect of eugenol and the molecular mechanism underlying eugenol-induced apoptosis in several cancer cells with different p53 status. Effect of eugenol on mesenteric mast cells was tested using a rat anaphylaxis model. And TUNEL staining was conducted to observe the cells undergoing apoptosis. Several cancer cells were treated with eugenol, and Western blotting, immunocytochemistry, confocal microscopy and mitochondrial fractionation were conducted. Eugenol induced apoptosis in mast cells of mesentery in vivo, decreasing the density of mast cells. Although eugenol did not increase the expression level of p53, it caused the translocation of p53 into mitochondria and subsequent release of cytochrome c. Eugenol increased the level of phospho-ser 15-p53 in several cancer cells with wild type p53 but not in the cells with mutant p53 or p53 deficient cancer cell. In cancer cells with wild type p53, p53 translocated into mitochondria was phosphorylated on ser 15. In conclusion, eugenol induces apoptosis in cancer cells with wild type p53 via the translocation of phospho-ser 15- p53. Furthermore our data suggest that the anticancer effect on cancer cells with wild type p53 may be involved with the pharmacological effect of eugenol regulating apoptosis via a phospho-ser 15-p53 dependent fashion.
Anaphylaxis ; Animals ; Apoptosis* ; Blotting, Western ; Cytochromes c ; Syzygium ; Eugenol ; Immunohistochemistry ; In Situ Nick-End Labeling ; Magnolia ; Mast Cells ; Mesentery ; Microscopy, Confocal ; Mitochondria ; Rats