This is to report a case of the homogeneous transplantation of the single articular surface and its supporting bone of the proximal one third of the humerus and humeral head for the treatment of the giant cell tumor involving the proximal humerus.
Giant Cell Tumors ; Humeral Head ; Humerus

Left ventricular free wall rupture following acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is the second most common cause of death and has been reported to be responsible for 4 to 24% of all infarction deaths. The rupture occurs anywhere from a few hours to several days after AMI. The common findings of ventricular rupture are persistent chest pain bradycardia and shock. This may be often mistaken for the ruptured dissection of the ascending aorta. The different points from dissection are 1) persistent chest pain 2)persistent ST segment elevation and 3) only intramural hematoma in ascending aorta. We have sucessfully managed two patients with postinfarction myocardial rupture. Surgical management consisted of infarctectomy repairi of the ventricular rupture and coronay artery bypass grafting. We conclude that successful surgical management of ventricular free wall rupture should require prompt diagnosis and emergency operation.
Aorta ; Arteries ; Bradycardia ; Cause of Death ; Chest Pain ; Diagnosis ; Emergencies ; Heart Rupture* ; Hematoma ; Humans ; Infarction ; Myocardial Infarction ; Rupture ; Shock ; Transplants

In this prospective study, 208 cases of ptosis were repaired using dried preserved fascia lata as suspension material for frontalis sling procedure during 1990 to 1996. The average age at operation was 9.2 years with the range of 2 months to 56 years. One hundred forty one patients (91.0%) of the 155 patients with follow-up of more than 3 months and 99 (90.8%) of the 109 patients with follow-up of more than 6 months showed satisfactory results respectively. Among 12 unsatisfactory cases six patients underwent reoperation and achieved satisfactory results. Exposure keratitis was the most common complication (39.4%)but most of them were transient. The authors report frontalis sling operation using preserved fascia lata with 96.3% of success rate with few complications.
Blepharoptosis ; Fascia Lata* ; Fascia* ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Keratitis ; Prospective Studies ; Reoperation

We presented several cases of the exophthalmos due to the orbital tumors, with the review of the literatures. We performed modified Kronlein operation and anterior orbitotomy, appropriately for each cases to improve the visual acuity and at least to correct cosmetically the proptosed eye. It will be better to do one's best in order to search a possible way to save the eye ball by which the ophthalmologist can remove the orbital tumor even if the patient lost his vision.
Exophthalmos* ; Humans ; Orbit ; Visual Acuity

No abstract available.
Cryopreservation* ; Humans* ; Oocytes*

BACKGROUND: The cross-matching test is regarded as an essential pre-transfusion test. It serves an important role in confirming the ABO/Rh compatibility of transfusion and screening for possible unexpected antibodies. We evaluated cross-matching tests in QWALYS-3 (DIAGAST, Loos Cedex, France), comparing the automated process to manual tube methods. METHODS: A total of 545 crossmatching tests from 169 patients, collected from RBC concentrate transfusion orders, were performed using both QWALYS-3 and manual tube methods. All patients were follow-up tested later on with antibody identification tests to confirm the presence of unexpected antibodies in plasma. RESULTS: None of the samples were ABO/Rh incompatible. The presence of unexpected antibodies was later confirmed in 277 tests in 56 patients. Out of those 277 tests, the concordance rate between two methods was 83.8% (232/277). In 268 tests which were later confirmed with no unexpected antibodies, manual tube methods did not show any positive results while five tests were false-positive (5/268, 1.9%) only in QWALYS-3. The overall concordance rate between two methods was 90.82%, and the kappa coefficient was 0.696 (P<0.05) (n=545). CONCLUSION: The QWALYS-3 system has its merits in accuracy, precision, and lack of possible human errors, however, the automated procedure showed some disadvantages, including relatively low cost-and-time-effectiveness, less effective cold antibody detection, and difficulties in handling small quantity samples. Thus, the QWALYS-3 system has meaningful, but only a limited value in the automation of routine cross-matching tests.
Antibodies ; Automation ; Blood Banks* ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Mass Screening ; Plasma

No abstract available.
Mitral Valve*

Eosinophilic pustular folliculitis (EPF) is a rare dermatosis of unknown cause. It is characterized by recurrent crops of sterile, pruritic, follicular papulopustules on the face, trunk, and extremities. Although various treatments have been attempted for EPF, including systemic corticosteroid dapsone, cetrizine, UVB phototherapy, as well as cyclosporin, no uniformly effective treatment has been found. We describe a 20-year-old man with long standing EPF which was resistant to various treatments, but who responded dramatically to indomethacin.
Cyclosporine ; Dapsone ; Eosinophils* ; Extremities ; Folliculitis* ; Humans ; Indomethacin* ; Phototherapy ; Skin Diseases ; Young Adult

BACKGROUND: Psoriasis is a common chronic skin disorder characterized by hyperproliferation of the epidermis, inflammatory cell accumulation and increased tortuosity and dilatation of dermal papillary blood vessels. Angiogenesis plays a major role in the pathogenesis of psoriasis, however the mechanism responsible is largely unknown. Recently, some studies have identified several angiogenic factors from psoriatic epidermis, including interleukin (IL)-8, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), and basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF). OBJECTIVE: This study was aimed to elucidate the roles of VEGF and bFGF in the pathogenesis of psoriasis. METHODS: Immunohistochemical staining for VEGF and bFGF was carried out on skin samples of 15 psoriatic patients, plus 5 normal skin samples as a control. The psoriatic skins were divided into early and fully-developed stages, and differences in their expression between the stages were examined. RESULTS: The expressions of VEGF and bFGF on both epidermis and dermal structures were significantly higher in psoriatic lesional skin than in normal control skin. There was no significant differences between early and fully- developed psoriatic skin lesions. CONCLUSION: These results suggest that VEGF and bFGF may play significant roles in the pathogenesis of psoriasis.
Angiogenesis Inducing Agents* ; Blood Vessels ; Dilatation ; Epidermis ; Fibroblast Growth Factor 2 ; Humans ; Interleukins ; Psoriasis ; Skin ; Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A