Primary pericardial tumors are rare than those originating within the myocardium or endocardium and, moreover, primary benign pericardial tumors are much rare in occurrence. Fine(1986) was able to collect only 43 cases of lipoma. Most cases are diagnosed only at autopsy. One fourth of the cardiac lipoma arise subepicardially, where they suggest the presence of pericardial effusion with compression or displacement of the heart. A case of primary intrapericardial lipoma simulating pericardial effusion is presented. This tumor originated in left anterior aspect of pericardium. The tumor was measured 30x30x5cm in size and 2,200mg in weight. Total excision of the mass was accomplished by posterior lateral thoracotomy incision, resulting in complete cure. This is the first case of primary benign lipoma of the pericardium in literatures in our knowledge.
Autopsy ; Endocardium ; Heart ; Lipoma* ; Myocardium ; Pericardial Effusion* ; Pericardium ; Thoracotomy

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Skin, Artificial*

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Cholesterol* ; Granuloma*

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Female ; Hypertension, Pregnancy-Induced* ; Iron* ; Pregnancy

We have experienced automated and computerized perimetry using a Humphrey Field Analyzer in our Glaucoma Services. To evaluate its clinical efficacy, we report the results of the Armaly central field screening test in comparison with those of central 30-2 threshold test of the Humphrey Field Analyzer. One hundred fortythree eyes of 83 cases of normotensives, ocular hypertensives and glaucoma patients with open-angle or narrow-angle were enrolled in this study. Fiftyfour out of 61 patients (88.5%) and 73 out of 81 eyes (90.1 %) with visual field defect were detected by the screening test of the Humphrey Field Analyzer. Eight out of 81 eyes (9.9%) with visual field defect detected by the screening test were confirmed as false positive. All points of false positive were solitary, which tended to occur more frequently on superior vusual field. False negative of 8 eyes (12.9%) detected by the screening test were confirmed by the threshold test. The point of false negative was more frequent on superior field and showed to locate more peripherally from the fixation point. There was no significant difference in either central sensitivity or age of the false ring.
Glaucoma ; Humans ; Mass Screening* ; Visual Field Tests ; Visual Fields*

The incidence of gastric cancer is high in old age group and low in young age group, extremely rare in child age. So the diagnosis of gastric cancer in young age is often delayed, and this, with other factors such as poorly differentiated histopathologic tendency and rapid growing nature, makes the prognosis poorer than in other age guoup. Therefore it should always be remembered that the young who has gastric symptom may have malignancy in his stomach in spite of the age. We report a case of early gastric cancer in a 16-years old male with the review of the literature.
Adolescent ; Child ; Diagnosis ; Humans ; Incidence ; Male ; Prognosis ; Stomach ; Stomach Neoplasms*

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Activities of Daily Living* ; Aged* ; Humans ; Mental Health* ; Rural Population*

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Activities of Daily Living* ; Aged* ; Humans ; Mental Health* ; Rural Population*

We have examined the regenerative capabilities of the human scalp hair follicle after grafting the lower half of the follicle. Twenty-eight of 32 intact whole-hair follicles isolated from the human scalp regenerated hairs when grafted onto the forehead of the same person. Seven of the 15 lower-half follicles regenerated complete hair follicles 8 months after grafting showed that the lower-half follicle implant reconstituted the complete hair follicle. The sebaceous gland was not regenerated, but there was an outgrowth in the sebaceous gland regPark ion. Some grafts formed epithelial cysts. Two years after grafting, the histological examination of the regenerated follicle from the lower-half implant showed that the sebaceous gland was completely regenerated. While an intact follicle shows prominent naked shaft outgPark Park Parkrowth, the sheath grows concomitantly with the shaft in lower-half follicles in culture. If grafted lower-half follicles were located too deep, the regrown sheath could not reach the epidermal layer. In this situation, the formation of an epidermal cyst was likely.
Epidermal Cyst ; Forehead ; Hair Follicle* ; Hair* ; Humans ; Scalp ; Sebaceous Glands ; Transplants*

This study was performed to investigate the relationship between CD44 expression and depth of, tumor invasion histopathologic differentiation, tumor size, lymph node metastasis, and proliferating capacity of tumor cells in the gastric carcinoma. In 20 cases of early gastric carcinoma (EGC) and 40 cases of advanced gastric carcinoma (AGC), the immunohistochemical staining for CD44v3, CD44v5, and PCNA gave the following results. 1) In all 60 cases, the positive rates for CD44v3 and CD44v5 were 18.3% and 71.7%, respectively. 2) CD44v5 was expressed in 45% of EGC and 85% of AGC. 3) Larger tumors exhibited higher positive rates for CD44v5. 4) There were 28 cases of lymph node metastases out of 43 cases of CD44v5- positive primary gastric carcinomas (65.1%), and there were 4 cases of lymph node metastases out of 17 CD44v5-negative cases (23.5%). 5) There was no relationship between CD44v5 expression and PCNA index. Because the tumors that exhibit deep invasion, and large in size and have lymph node metastses tend to have more frequent expression of CD44v5, CD44v5 may be one of the useful prognostic markers for gastric carcinoma.
Humans* ; Lymph Nodes ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen