No abstract available.
Transplants*

No abstract available.
Transplants*

The author studied on the 197 cases of the pleomorphic adenoma which had been diagnosed with biopsy during the period of 1985 to 1996 at the Kyungpook National University Hospital. This study contains the statistical analysis of the clinico-pathological findings such as sex, age, location, chief complaint, duration, treatment method, size, recurrence, and treatment department in relation to anatomical location. The result were as follows : 1. The treatment department in oxter were ENT(16.2%), GS(22.8%), OMFS(18.8%), PS(12.2%). 2. The incidence of pleomorphic adenoma were parotid gland(57.8%), palatal salivary gland(20.3%), submandibular gland(17.2%), other minor salivary glands(4.5%). 3. The tumors were more common in females than males, with a male to female ratio of 1 : 1.85. 4. The peak age of ocurrence was in the forth decade. 5. The duration of the most cases were less than 5 years. 6. Although the size of the tumors was variable, the incidence was highest between 3cm and 4cm(25.4%). 7. The most prevalent chief complaint was swelling(94.9%). 8. Conservative treatment was performed 30.0%, and radical treatment was employed 70.0%. 9. The recurrence rate is 8.1%, and recurrence used to be relatively common with conservative treatment. 10. The rate of malignant transformation is 1%. 11. The anatomical location has no relationship with the factors of sex, duration, and malignant transformation. 12. There was statistical significance on the anatomical location to the treatment department, age, chief complaint, size, treatment method, recurrence (P<0.05).
Adenoma, Pleomorphic* ; Biopsy ; Female ; Gyeongsangbuk-do ; Humans ; Incidence ; Male ; Recurrence

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Animals ; Cats

It has been increasingly clear that the defence against Mycobacterium leprae(M. leprae) appears mainly to depend on cell-mediated rather than humoral immune mechanism. Nevertheless, the M. leprae is not only capable of producing specific humoral antibody, but also stimulating the formation of a variety of autoantibodies, since mycobacteria are known to exert adjuvant effect. Although the exact role of the autoantibodies in the pathogenesis of leprosy is not known, it is remarkable that the prevalence of autoantibodies has been reported different by several investigators, suggesting the possibility of geographical or racial difference. This study was undertaken to investigate the prevalence of some autoantibodies in Korean patients with leprosy. Eighty patients with leprosy registered at the Department of Dermatology, Seoul National University Hospital entered this study from February, 1977 through October, 1978, The diagnosis was made by clinical, histological, bacteriological and immunological assessments and the patients were classified according to the Ridley-Jopling scale. All patients were under anti leprosy chemotherapy with DDS (Diaminodiphenylsulfone) for various periods at the time of study. Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL) test was performed in 80 patients and the sera displaying reactive VDRL were subjected to re-examination by Treponema Pallidum Hemagglutinin Assay (TPHA). Rbeumatoid factor was sought by means of latex fixation test in 66 patients. Antinuclear antibody (ANA) was detected by means of latex agglutination reaction in 61 patients using polysterene latex complexed with calf thymus deoxyribonucleoprotein. Cryoprotein was detected as described elsewhere. Four of the 80 patients(5%) showed reactive VDRL, while rheumatoid factor and antinuclear antibody were not detectable in all cases. Cryoprotein was detected in 15 patients (27. 3 %). Compared with other reports on the prevalence of autoantibodies in Caucacian and African patients, we found a much lower frequency. This result may be expained partly by the racial or geographic difference in the pattern of leprosy as suggeste4 by Turk.
Agglutination ; Antibodies, Antinuclear ; Autoantibodies* ; Dermatology ; Diagnosis ; Drug Therapy ; Hemagglutinins ; Humans ; Latex ; Latex Fixation Tests ; Leprosy* ; Mycobacterium ; Prevalence* ; Research Personnel ; Rheumatoid Factor ; Seoul ; Sexually Transmitted Diseases ; Thymus Gland ; Treponema pallidum

No abstract available.
Colon* ; Diverticulitis* ; Laparoscopy*

Fractures of the carpal navicular is a serious injury, particulary in a manual worker, because non union and the resultant disability may limit the usefulness of the extremity. There is almost unanimous agreement that fresh fractures of the carpal navicular should be treated by immobilization in a plaster cast and how immobilization should be maintained. As a result of this study we have arrived at several conclusion regarding to the conservative treatment of fresh navicular fracture.
Casts, Surgical ; Clinical Study ; Extremities ; Immobilization

No abstract available.
Hair* ; Microscopy, Electron

Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) is a rare, distinctive cutaneous tumor, which consists of spindle shaped ceils arranged in densely packed interlacing bundles with the storiform or cartwheel pattern. Histologically, it resembles deep growing dermatofibroma, nodular fasciitis, neurofibroma and neural sheath tumors. DFSP is one of t.he connective tissue tumors which is difficult. to diagnose histologically as well as clinically. Recently, the immunochemical staining with a monoclonal antibody to CD34 is reported to give assistance in the clear differential diagnosis of DFSP from other fibrous or neural tumors. Herein, three cases of DFSP were stained by immunohistochemical staining with S-100 protein, vimentin, factor VIII and anti-CD34 antibody in order to assess the use of anti-CD34 in the differential diagnosis of DFSP.
Connective Tissue ; Dermatofibrosarcoma* ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Factor VIII ; Fasciitis ; Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous ; Neurofibroma ; S100 Proteins ; Vimentin

The epidermal nevus syndrome is a disorder characterized by epidermal nevi and associated neurologic, skeletal, and other abnormalities. A 15-year-old female patient presented with extensive, bilateral systematized, verrucous plaques, involving the face, trunk, both extremities, and anogenital area. The onset of the lesions were at the age of 2 months. Abdominal CT showed the absence of the left kidney, teratoma of the right ovary and left ovarian cyst. This is a case of epidermal nevus syndrome, which was composed of extensive epidermal nevi, congenital solitary kidney, left ovarian cyst and right ovarian teratoma.
Adolescent ; Extremities ; Female ; Humans ; Kidney ; Nevus* ; Ovarian Cysts ; Ovary ; Teratoma ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed ; Urogenital Abnormalities*