No abstract available in English.
Achilles Tendon ; Rupture

The use of a pneumatic tourniquet is potentially associated with injury to underlying muscles, vessels, and nerves if excessive pressure occurs beneath the toumiquet. In order to minimize the risk of soft tissue injury, the lowest tourniquet pressure that maintains a bloodless operative field should be used. A clinical study was undertaken to evaluate the pneumatic tourniquet setting required for adequate hemostasis in upper extremity surgery. From March to September in 1984, the subcutaneous soft tissue pressure of the 20 upper extremities beneath a pneumatic toumiquet in the arm were measured directly and the following results were obtained. 1. The underlying subcutaneous soft tissue pressure was not affected by adult, age, arm circumference, and blood pressure of normal range. 2. The underlying subcutaneous soft tissue pressure showed direct correlation with the tourniquet pressure respectively. 3. A tourniquet preasure of more than 250 mmHg was not rarely required in a normotensive individual.
Adult ; Arm ; Blood Pressure ; Clinical Study ; Hemostasis ; Humans ; Muscles ; Reference Values ; Soft Tissue Injuries ; Tourniquets ; Upper Extremity

Ligamentous injury of the knee which could be easily occur in sports or traffic accidents resulted in more and severe disability than that of other joints. Rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament which restrain hyperextension, excessive rotation and anterior motion of tibia on femur is the most frequent and significant injury of the knee. Its treatment and clinical significance is one of the most controversial issue and its incidence tends to increase. From 1983 to 1985, modified Scott operation were performed on 10 patients at the department of orthopedic surgery, Chung Ang university hospital. Following results are obtained. 1. No limitation of range of motion of the knee was developed. 2. Intra-articular fixation by use of pull-out wire was done and special consideration was done for the site of fixation on tibia plateau and method of dilatation of posterior capsule. 3. Of the ten patients, nine had negative anterior drawer test, postoperatively.
Accidents, Traffic ; Anterior Cruciate Ligament ; Dilatation ; Femur ; Humans ; Incidence ; Joints ; Knee ; Ligaments ; Methods ; Orthopedics ; Range of Motion, Articular ; Rupture ; Sports ; Tibia

A case of right ovarian vein syndrome is reported with a review of literature. The patient presented was a 29 year-old multipara and eighth month of pregnancy. The extirpation of entire right ovarian vein, including it's all tributaries produced a good result and has not caused interruption of pregnancy. The clinical situation due to aberrant right ovarian vein is probably more frequent than heretofore suspected, by reason of a frown of X-rays during pregnancy and also an unawareness of the condition. Therefore, if clinical observations and X-ray studies are performed, more cases of such a condition. will be expected.
Adult ; Humans ; Pregnancy ; Veins*

The Supracondylar fracture of the humerus is the most common elbow fracture in children. In general, accurate anatomic reductio, the least regional trauma as possible and the maintenance of the reduction are necessary to obtain excellent results. Lateral and posterior approach is commonly used method for the treatment of supracondylar fracture of the humerus in children. But lateral and posterior approach has some troubles in reduction of fracture and Kirschner wire fixation. From March 1988 to February 1993, seventeen supracondylar fractures of the humerus were treated by means of medial approach and followed from 8 monts to 13 months with an average 10 months. There were some advantages in medial approach. Reduction was easy and ulnar nerve was not damaged by medial approach at insertion of Kirschner wire and no more another incision. The results obtained are as follows. Postoperative vascular impairment or Volkmann's ischemia was not complicated and neurologic deficits accompanied with injury were all recovered completely. According to Mitchell and Adams' criteria, all had satisfactory results.
Child ; Elbow ; Humans ; Humerus ; Ischemia ; Methods ; Neurologic Manifestations ; Ulnar Nerve

Fractures of the upper end of the humerus are common and account for 4% to 5% of all fractures. They occur more frequently in older patients. In older patient the fracture often results from a minor fall and can be extremely disabling and their management often demands experienced surgical skill and judgement. Fortunately, in 80% of upper humeral fractures none of the four major segment is significantly displaced. These lesions are amenable to simple treatment by early function exercises. In 15% to 20% of upper humeral fractures one or more of the major segment is displaced. They are often unstable, may not be reduced by closed method. Many different methods of open reduction and internal fixation has been used and are still employed. These include wire loops, screw, staples, plates, intramedullary nail, but adequate internal fixation was not easily achieved due to the osteoporosis, displacement and shape of fragment. We treated 8 cases of surgical neck fractures by Rush pin and tension band wiring method. We consider this method as effective, simple and rigid fixation technique to attempt early exercise and to restore normal range of motion.
Exercise ; Humans ; Humeral Fractures ; Humerus ; Methods ; Neck ; Osteoporosis ; Reference Values

The normal criteria of the ankle joint laxity of the Korean may be different from that of the western. For the objective study, we designed two devices for the anterior drawer test and inversion stress test. Using the devices we radiologically examined the 120 ankle at neutral and 30 plantar flexed position. The following results were obtained; l. In the talar tilt angle, the minimun angle, the maximun angle and the mean were 1.0°, 12.0°, 3.7° respectively at the neutral position and 1.0°, 19.0°, 4.8° respectively at the 30° plantar flexed position. 2. With the Grace method, the minimum distance, the maximum distance and the mean were 3.Omm, 12.0mm, 5.2mm respectively at the neutral position and 3.0mm, 12.6mm, 6.1mm respectively at the 30 plantar flexed position. 3. With the Kelikian method, the minmum value, the maximum value and the mean were Omm, 7.5mm, 2.2mm respectively at the neutral position and Omm, 8.0mm, 2.5mm respectively at the 30 plantar flexed posion. 4. There was no difference in laxity for the age and sex.
Adult ; Ankle Joint ; Ankle ; Exercise Test ; Humans ; Methods

No abstract available.
Arm* ; Glomus Tumor*

No abstract available.
Cartilage, Articular* ; Knee* ; Osmium Tetroxide* ; Synovial Membrane*

This study has been examined different morphologic measurements in the evaluation of patients with lumbar spinal stenosis. Preoperative CT-Myelography from 30 patients who underwent surgery for central lumbar stenosis were analyzed. Based on this, we concluded as follows : 1) Bony measurement alone did not reliably identify patients with spinal stenosis. 2) Measurement of the transverse area of the dural sac on CT-Myelography was the most accurate method for identifying stenosis. 3) Lumbar myelography was still considered to have an important role in the valuation of a patient with stenosis because of correlation between the cross-sectional area of the dural sac and the anteroposterior diameter of the dural sac was excellent. 4) We identified soft-tissue problems as the main cause of stenosis. 5) The most common level of maximum stenosis was L4-5.
Constriction, Pathologic ; Humans ; Myelography* ; Spinal Stenosis*