1.Clinial Study of Nevocellular Nevus in Korea.
Korean Journal of Dermatology 1977;15(3):287-295
Nevocellular nevi are benign tumors composed of nevus cells, which are peculiar to man and almost everyone has a few nevi somewhere on his body. The dermatologist has a unique opportunity to study the most common neoplaam of man, the nevocellular nevus, becasue of its ready accessibility to visual observation and its simplicity obtaining for microscopic specimen. Much has been leamed last two decades about the nature, origin, and development of the nevocellular nevus. However, most of the these knowledge obtained by investigation of Caucasians. The investigation of colored subjects are scarcely reported. This paper is an attempt to clarify 1) the clinical features of nevocellular nevi developed on Korean, colored race. 2) the incidence of pigmented nevi developed on normal individuals and vitiligo patients. During the last l0 month(1975. 3. - 1975. 12. ) 525 normal individuals and 67 vitiligo patients were randomly selected and were investigated about incidence and clinical morphology(according to Levers clinical classification) of pigmented nevi developed on different body areas. The results were summarized as follows. 1) There was average 20 nevocellular nevi in each Korean individuals. Average 23 nevi was found in male and 15 nevi in female. 2) The number of nevus and its morphology were closely related to the age of host and body areas. 3) The flat type nevi was the most common type nevi and face was the most common site among the body areas. 4) In comparison with Caucasian, it seemed no racial difference in clinical features of the pigmented nevus. 5) There was no difference between the incidence of nevocellular nevus developed on normal individual and that of vitiligo patient.
Continental Population Groups
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Female
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Humans
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Incidence
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Korea*
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Male
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Nevus*
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Nevus, Pigmented
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Vitiligo
2.Trichofolliculoma.
Choong Won KIM ; Kwang Joong KIM ; Eil Soo LEE
Korean Journal of Dermatology 1986;24(4):544-546
We report a case of 21-year-old patient who has had dome-shaped nodules 1 cm in diameter on the right shoulder for one year. Histopathologic findings showed central dilated cystic hair follicles and many abortive hair follicles branching from the follicles and multiple immature follicles. Skin lesions were surgically excised.
Hair Follicle
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Humans
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Shoulder
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Skin
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Young Adult
3.Clinical Statistics of Apgar Scoring System of Newborn.
Soo Kyung JEONG ; Jae Sook KIM ; Choong Hee KIM
Journal of the Korean Pediatric Society 1984;27(3):217-223
No abstract available.
Humans
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Infant, Newborn*
4.Recognition and performance of influenza and pneumococcal vaccination among DM patients.
Dong Soo LEE ; Youg Eun KIM ; Choong Ok CHOI
Journal of the Korean Academy of Family Medicine 1997;18(6):632-644
BACKGROUND: Family physicians should actively carry out adult immunization. DM is a common risk factor of influenza and pneumococcal pneumonia related complications, so DM patients should receive influenza and pneumococcal vaccinations. The authors investigated recognition and performance of influenza and pneumococcal vaccination among DM patients. METHODS: We surveyed knowledge and performance of influenza and pneumococcal vaccination among the 203 diabetic patients living in Seoul and responding to telephone interview, who visited one DM center in general hospital from March 3, to March 7, 1997. RESULTS: Among 203 DM patients, the risk factors for influenza and pneumococcal pneumonia other than DM were old age of 65 or over(35.0%), cardiovascular diseases(5.9%) and chronic pulmonary diseases(4.9%). The recognition rate and performance rate of influenza vaccination were 27.6% and 21.2% respectively, there was a statistically significant relationship between these rates(P<0.01). Those vaccinated 43 patients for influenza knew the need of vaccination through family members and relatives(58.1%) and through medical doctors(32.6%). Although 85.2% of 203 DM patients answered that they received education about need of vaccination through DM education program conducted at hospitals, but only 9 patients(4.4%) recognized well. The reasons for not performing influenza vaccination were lack of knowledge(63.1%), no experience of influenza(12.5%), 'forget for the moment(5.0%) and regard injection as a nuisance(2.5%) in descending order. The recognition rate and performance rate of of pneurnococcal vaccination were all zero percents. The reasons for not performing pneumococcal vaccination were lack of knowledge(91.1%) no experience of pneumococcal pneumonia(6.4%), regard injection as a nuisance(1.5%) and forget for the moment(1.0%) in descending order. CONCLUSIONS: The recognition and performance rates of influenza vaccination were low and those of pneumococcal vaccination were all zero percents among DM patients because they did not recognize well the need of these vaccinations. Therefore, the doctors who see DM patients should actively recommend influenza and pneumococcal vaccination and DM educational programs must include education for these vaccinations.
Adult
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Education
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Hospitals, General
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Humans
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Immunization
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Influenza, Human*
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Interviews as Topic
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Physicians, Family
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Pneumonia, Pneumococcal
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Risk Factors
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Seoul
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Vaccination*
5.A Case of Leiomyoma in Vulva.
Choong Hak PARK ; Jong Soo KIM ; Ho Bum PARK
Korean Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2000;43(8):1478-1480
No abstract available.
Leiomyoma*
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Vulva*
6.Two Cases of Pseudocyst of Auricle.
Song OH ; Hee Soo OH ; Nack In KIM ; Choong Rim HAW
Korean Journal of Dermatology 1986;24(4):550-558
We present two cases of pseudocyst of auricle which occured in 59-year-old man and 21-year-old man. Each showed bean sized non-inflammatory cystic swelling of upper part of right auricle with slight tenderness and the cystic content was serosanguinous fluid. Cystic wall was composed of fibrovascular tissue replacing degenerated cartilage without lining epithelium.
Cartilage
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Epithelium
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Humans
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Middle Aged
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Young Adult
7.A Case of Mixed Tumor.
Choong Rim HAW ; Soo Nam KIM ; Tae Yun YOO
Korean Journal of Dermatology 1977;15(3):359-363
Mixed tumor can be defined as arising from the skin, often from sweat glands, and as being composed of epithelial elements intermingled with cartilage or myxoid tissue in such a way that epithelial cells appear to be continuous with these otber types of cells without separation by a basement membrane. RecentIy, we had opportunity to observe a patient, 34-year-old woman, who had typical mixed tumor of the skin in the central portion of the chin. The tumor developed as a solitary, firm, rice-sized subcutaneous nodule which had been present for 6 months with little increase in size and without any pain and tendemess. The covering skin was normal except mild erythema. Clinically, the lesion was simiIar to sebaceaus cyst, Under local anesthesia, tbe whole tumor mass was removed surgically for histologic study. The histopathologic finding reveals nests of cuboidal or polygonal cells, tubuloalveolar and ductal structures, and homogeneous, faintly bluish chondroid or foamy appearing matrix. (Photo. 1, 2, 3 & 4)
Adult
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Anesthesia, Local
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Basement Membrane
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Cartilage
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Chin
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Epithelial Cells
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Erythema
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Female
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Humans
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Skin
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Sweat Glands
8.A Clinical Study of the Unstable Thoracolumbar Vertebral Fractures or Fracture-dislocations: 10 Cases Report
Yong Joo KIM ; Sung Soo CHO ; Choong Sin CHOI
The Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association 1980;15(3):471-479
In accidents, the spines are generally subjected to one of five types of violence; pure flexion, flexion and rotation, extention, vertical compression, or direct shearing force by Holdsworth's report. Flexion and rotational violence, so-called, unstable rotational fracture-dislocation results in paraplegia commonly. The treatment of the fracture-dislocations of the thoracic and lumbar spine had varied widely during the past 100 years, including conservative and operative treatment, but there is no definitive study that convincingly show the superiority of either operative or nonoperative treatment till now. Ten cases of the unstable thoracolumbar vertebral fracture or fracture-dislocations during the past two years were reported in this paper. In unstable types on the thoracolumbar vertebral fracture or fracture-dislocations, direct blow was the most common cause of injury and the thoracolumbar junction extending from T10 to L1 was the most common location of injury in this report. Three among four paraplegic patients were received flexion and rotational violence and the remaining one, direct shearing force. All four paraplegic parients were operated. Among them two cases, the one who was performed open reduction and simple wire fixation and the other open reduction and Harrington instrumentation, recovered almost completely except mild motor weakness of lower extremities. All cases complained of remaining back pain more or less without relation to the method of treatment.
Back Pain
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Clinical Study
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Humans
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Lower Extremity
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Methods
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Paraplegia
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Spine
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Violence
9.A Study on Plasma Levels of Testosterone and Dehydroepiandrosterone - sulfate ( DHEA - S ) in the Patients with Acne Vulgaris.
Nack In KIM ; Hee Soo OH ; Sang Soo LEE ; Moo Hyung LEE ; Choong Rim HAW
Korean Journal of Dermatology 1989;27(1):29-33
This study was performed to detect the hormonal abnormalities and to investigate the relationship between the levels of plasma testosterone and DHEA-S in 21 female patients with acne vulgaris using radioimmunoassay. The results were as follows : 1. The levels of plasma testosterone in patients group and control group(n=9) were 352+/-11.8 ng/dl, 223+/-9.7 ng/dl, respectively, and significantly elevated in patient group(p < 0.01), 2. The levels of plasma DHEA-S in patient group and control group were 286.6+/-126.8 pg/dl, 238.6+/-60.0 pg/dl, respectively, and did not show statistical significance. 3. The levels of plasma testosterones in patient subgroups classified by modified Pillsbury method were as follows minor group 32.6+5.3 ng/dl, mild group 33.4+/-15,5 ng/dl, moderate group 39.6+/-12.6 ng/dl. The testosterone levels in all the subgroups increased significantly than those in control group(352-t11.8 ng/dl) (p<0.05, p<0.05 p < 0.01) 4. The levels of plasrna DHEA-S in patient subgroups were follows minor group 242.5+/-412 pg/dl, mild group 263.9+/-166.1 pg/dl, moderate group 353.4+/-1273 pg/dl. The DE3EA-S levels in moderate group increased significantly than those in cotrol (238,6+/-60,0 pg/dl) and minor group(p<0.05). 5. There was no correlation between the plasma testosterone levels and the plasma DHEA-S levels in the acne patients.
Acne Vulgaris*
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Dehydroepiandrosterone*
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Female
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Humans
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Plasma*
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Radioimmunoassay
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Testosterone*
10.Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome caused by Neurilemoma of the Posterior Tibial Nerve: A case Report
Yong Ju KIM ; Soo Young KWAG ; Choong Shin CHOI ; Bun Soo YOON
The Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association 1978;13(1):57-59
Tarsal tunnel syndrome consist of a complex of symptoms affecting the foot and is thought to be due to a compression neuropathy of the posterior tibial nerve within the fibro-osseous tunnel that lies beneath the flexor retinaculum on the medial side of the ankle. A case of tarsal tunnel syndrome caused by neurilemoma of the posterior tibial nerve was treated at the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Seoul Red Cross Hospital. The patient had complained of pain and paresthesia on the plantar aspect of the left foot for one and half years before admission. Pain and paresthesia were almost completely improved after removal of the mass by intraneural lysis.
Ankle
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Foot
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Humans
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Neurilemmoma
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Orthopedics
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Paresthesia
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Red Cross
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Seoul
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Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome
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Tibial Nerve