Morquio's syndrome is a very rare disease, which is characterized by dwarfism, flattening of the vertebral body, marked spinal kyphosis, widespread affection of the epiphyses and normal intelligence. The authors experienced a case of Morquio's syndrome with typical clinical and radiological findings. The patient underwent bilateral supracondylar varus osteotomies for severe genu valgum deformities.
Congenital Abnormalities ; Dwarfism ; Epiphyses ; Genu Valgum ; Humans ; Intelligence ; Kyphosis ; Mucopolysaccharidosis IV ; Osteotomy ; Rare Diseases

Erythromelanosis follicularis faciei et coli is a pigmentary disorder of unknown cause originally described by Kitamura et al in 1960. We describe two cases of erythromelanosis follicularis faciei et colli occured in adolescence. Clinical features of these patients were consistent with the clinical changes described in previous cases having clinical triad of erythema, hyperpigmentation and follicular papules. This pigmentary disorder may not be an uncommon disease, however it might be neglected from the concern of the dermatologists.
Adolescent ; Erythema ; Humans ; Hyperpigmentation

Authors clinically analysed the end results of the 58 elderly patients having fresh femoral neck fracture who were treated with multiple Knowles pinning, compression hip screw and femoral head replacement. All these 58 patients were treated between January 1982 and December 1986 at the Presbyterian Medical Center, Chonju. The factors that influenced the clinical results were analysed by type of fractures, early and late post-operative complications, quality of the fractured bone(osteoporosis), and functional evaluation with Jesse's hip grading method at least post-operative two year later. The results were summerized as follows : 1. The slip down was the most common cause of injuries. The transcervical type and Garden's type 153 was the most common type of fractures. 2. Average time interval between injury and diagnosis is 6 days. In case of delayed diagnosis, the fractures showed more displacement. 3. The osteoporotic change of femoral neck and spine was increased as physiological age advanced in parallel. 4. As the osteoporosis advanced, the fractures showed more displacement. 5. As the kosteoporosis advanced, the final results were worse, 6. The group treated with compression hip screw showed less complication and better functional result than patients operated with multiple knowles pinning. 7. This study suggests that the important factors that influenced the clinical results were type of fracture, the interval between injury and operation, method of trearment, and the quality of the fractured bone(degree of osteoporosis).
Aged ; Clinical Study ; Delayed Diagnosis ; Diagnosis ; Femoral Neck Fractures ; Femur Neck ; Head ; Hip ; Humans ; Jeollabuk-do ; Methods ; Osteoporosis ; Protestantism ; Spine

In recent years, there has been a tendency to advocate operative treatment as the method of choice for certain fractures of the proximal humerus. But the management of this fracture is still under debate, especially in the elderly patients. Seventy eight patients with displaced fractures of the proximal humerus were reviewed, and the results were as follows ; l. Among the 78 patients, the ratio of males and females was 44:34 and the highest incidence was between the ages of 40 and 49 years. 2. The most common cause of injuries was traffic accident (57.7%), and falling or slipped down was in 33.3%. 3. According to the classificatoin of Neer, the commonest type was two part fracture (60.3%). 4. Fifty-three cases were treated conservatively, and surgical treatment was done at 25 cases. At old age, or patients with severe associated injury, external fixation was done (12 cases), and one case of four-part fracture was treated by prosthetic replacement. 5. The results were analyzed according to Neer's criteria, and 38 cases (48.7%) showed good, 25 cases (32.1%) was fair, and 15 cases (19.2%) was poor. 6. Total cases with complication were 19 (24.4%), and joint stiffness was most common (10 cases). 7. At elderly patient above 50 years old, the result of surgical treatment was satisfactory in 72.7%, and 58.8% was so when treated conservatively. And the external fixation showed slightly better result than that of internal fixation.
Accidental Falls ; Accidents, Traffic ; Aged ; Clinical Study ; Female ; Humans ; Humerus ; Incidence ; Joints ; Male ; Methods

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We evaluated the clinical and radiologic results of 48 cases (31 patients) who had rheumatoid arthritis of the knee joint and were managed with cementless total knee arthroplasty between November 1988 and December 1994. The mean follow-up period was 3.7 years (range, 2 to 7 years). The knee score of the Hospital for Special Surgery improved from an average of 44 points (range, 5 to 77 points) preoperatively to 83 points (range, 50 to 97 points) at the time of the most recent followup examination. In knee score, 85.4% of cases had excellent or good grade (over 75 points). The range of motion improved from an average of 77 degrees to an average of 103 degrees postoperatively. In tibiofemoral angle, 95.8% of cases were between valgus I degree and 10 degrees. The implants were inserted in an optimal position. Continuous radiolucency was not visible beneath any implant and loosening was not found. In one case, heterotopic ossification was removed to improve the range of motion. There was one case of patellar fracture during operation. Even in relatively poor bone quality in rheumatoid arthritis of the knee, the cementless total knee arthroplasty revealed good clinical and radiologic results.
Arthritis, Rheumatoid* ; Arthroplasty* ; Follow-Up Studies ; Knee Joint ; Knee* ; Ossification, Heterotopic ; Range of Motion, Articular

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Extremities* ; Sarcoma*

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PURPOSE: There have been some efforts to diagnose intracranial aneurysm through a non-invasive method using MRA, although the process may be difficult when the lesion is less than 3mm. The present study prospectively compare the results of high resolution, fast speed slice interpolation MRA and DSA therapy examing the potentiality of primary non-invasive screening test. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 26 cerebral aneurysm lesions from 14 patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage from ruptured aneurysm (RA) and 5 patients with unruptured aneurysm(UA). In all subjects, MRA was taken to confirm the vessel of origin, definition of aneurysm neck and the relationship of the aneurysm to nearby small vessels, and the results were compared with the results of DSA. The images were obtained with 1.5T superconductive machine(Vision, Siemens, Erlangen, Germany) on 4 slabs of MRA using slice interpolation. the settings include TR/TE/FA=30/6.4/25, matrix 160x512, FOV 150x200, 7minutes 42seconds of scan time, effective thickness of 0.7mm and an entire thickness of 102.2mm. The images included structures from foramen magnum to A3 portion of anterior cerebral artery. MIP was used for the image analysis, and multiplanar reconstruction(MPR) technique was used in cases of intracranial aneurysm. RESULTS: A total of 26 intracranial aneurysm lesions from 19 patients with 2 patients having 3 lesion, 3 patients having 2 lesions and the rest of 14 patients having 1 lesion each were examined. Among those, 14 were RA and 12 were UA. Eight lesions were less than 2mm in size, 9 lesions were 3-5mm, 7 were 6-9mm and 2 were larger than 10mm. On initial exams, 25 out of 26 aneurysm lesions were detected in either MRA or DSA showing 96% sensitively. Specificity cannot be estimated since there was no true negative of false positive findings. When MRA and MPR were used concurrently for the confirmation of size and shape, the results were equivalent to those of DSA, while in the confirmation of aneurysm neck and parent vessels, the concurrent use of MRA and MPR was far superior to the sole use of either MRA or DSA. CONCLUSION: High resolution MRA using slice interpolation technique showed equal results as those of DSA for the detection of intracranial aneurysm, and may be used as a primary nin-invasive screening test in the future.
Aneurysm ; Aneurysm, Ruptured ; Angiography* ; Angiography, Digital Subtraction* ; Anterior Cerebral Artery ; Foramen Magnum ; Humans ; Intracranial Aneurysm* ; Mass Screening ; Neck ; Parents ; Prospective Studies ; Sensitivity and Specificity ; Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

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beta-Glucosidase* ; Gaucher Disease*