No abstract available.
Odontogenic Cyst, Calcifying

Acute thyroid abscess is an uneommon type of neck infection. We experieneed a case of staphylococcal thyroid abscess in 29 year old man, diagnosed by needle aspira~tion and culture of the aspirate. The patient had complained fever and slowly growing anterior neck swelling. Needle aspiration of the cold nodule prior to broad spectrum antibiotics was performed. After Surgical excision combined with antibiotics, he was discharged with elinical improvement. The laboratory diagnosis and clinical course was summarized and is reported with relevent references.
Abscess ; Anti-Bacterial Agents ; Clinical Laboratory Techniques ; Fever ; Humans ; Neck ; Needles ; Staphylococcus aureus ; Staphylococcus ; Thyroid Gland

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Vagina*

The present study was carried out to evaluate the postoperative results of Millard rotation-advancement repair (MR) and lip adhesion followed by Millard rotation-advancement repair (LAMR) in unilateral complete cleft lip. Twenty patients with unilateral complete cleft lip underwent MR or LAMR at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of Chonnam University Hospital over a period of 6 years (January 1994 to December 1999) were analyzed. The surgical results following the operation were assessed on the basis of scoring, vertical lip length, and scar hypertrophy. The mean score was better in LAMR group (74.74+/-1.09, n=13) than in MR group (66.50+/-1.14, n=7) for both lip and nose segments. Scar hypertrophy developed in MR group with 28.6% and in LAMR group with 23.1%. No significant difference was noted in the ratio of lip length between LAMR and MR groups (0.84+/-0.08 and 0.73+/-0.10). These results suggest that LAMR is better than MR in repairing the unilateral complete cleft lip.
Cicatrix ; Cleft Lip* ; Humans ; Hypertrophy ; Jeollanam-do ; Lip* ; Nose ; Surgery, Oral

Necrotizing fasciitis is a life-threatening, invasive soft-tissue infection that is characterized by widespread, rapidly developing necrosis of the subcutaneous tissue and fascia with relative sparing of the skin and underlying muscle. In type I necrotizing fasciitis, anaerobes and gram negative bacteria are predominant; in the type II form, Group A p-hemolytic streptococcus is a major etiologic agent. It needs immediate surgical intervention for a favorable outcome. A 64-year-old male presented with extremely painful, erythematous, symmetric, tense swelling with yellowish or hemorrhagic blisters on his right upper extremity. Two weeks before the admission, pain on his elbow made him take acupuncture therapy, There was severe tenderness, pitting edema, and his right elbow showed limited flexibility. The patient underwent wide debridement and drainage immediately. Liquefactive necrosis was seen in the subcutaneous fat and superficial fascia without muscular involvement. Group A B-hemolytic streptococci were grown from the tissue culture specimen.
Acupuncture Therapy ; Blister ; Debridement ; Drainage ; Edema ; Elbow ; Fascia ; Fasciitis, Necrotizing* ; Gram-Negative Bacteria ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Necrosis ; Pliability ; Skin ; Streptococcus ; Subcutaneous Fat ; Subcutaneous Tissue ; Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation ; Upper Extremity

Phakomatosis pigmentovascularis is a rare cutaneous malformation characterized by a combination of nevus flammeus and pigmentary nevus such as nevus of Ota, nevus of Ito, mongolian spots, nevus spilus. It is often associated with systemic organ involvement. We report two cases of phakomatosis pigmentovascularis. The first was a 11-year-old boy, who had had diffuse nevus flammeus, mongolian spots since birth, and congenital glaucoma. The second case was a 9-year-old boy who had had nevus flammeus, mongolian spots, nevus of Ota, and nevus of Ito over various parts of his body since birth. He also had leg-length discrepancy, avascular necrosis of the femur head, congenital temporal alopecia and varicose veins.
Alopecia ; Child ; Femur Head ; Glaucoma ; Humans ; Male ; Mongolian Spot ; Necrosis ; Neurocutaneous Syndromes* ; Nevus ; Nevus of Ota ; Parturition ; Port-Wine Stain ; Varicose Veins

OBJECTIVE: We aim to analyze each variable affecting FHR to build objective decision basis using canonical correlation analysis METHODS: The sixty four hundred and fifty five cases of NST from 1988 to 1997 at Hanyang University hospital were collected. We used FHR interpretation softwares, HYFM-I & II those were already developed by author, for extraction of each variable of FHR. We classified the variables into 2 groups, F.A.M(FHR, Amplitude, Mean minute range) and N.S.F(NST weeks, Signal loss, Fetal movement) groups. The Canonical correlation was compared between each variable and group. RESULTS: The canonical correlation between F.A.M & N.S.F are as follows; r=0.40 (p=0.001) in preterm, r=0.34 (p=0.001) in term, and r=0.41 (p=0.004) in postterm. The high linear dependency is shown as r=0.79 (p=0.013) before 23 weeks, the irregular changes shown from 23 weeks to 30 weeks (r=0.47 in 23-24 weeks, r=0.29 in 25-26 weeks, r=0.56 in 27-28 weeks, r=0.24 in 29-30 weeks) and the stable relative changes shown (about r=0.3-0.4) after 30 weeks (r=0.32 in 31-32 weeks, r=0.33 in 33-34 weeks, r=0.37 in 35-36, r=0.33 in 37-38 weeks, r=0.37 in 39-40 weeks, r=0.35 after 41 weeks) (p<0.02). In the linear correlation of FHR, two indicies of FHR variables, AMP and MMR pertaining to N.S.F., FHR(r) is 0.06, AMP and MMR seem to be identical as r=0.30 and then the canonization in term and postterm[FHR(r)=-0.27, AMR(r)=0.23, and MMR(r)=0.35]lies in the regular pattern. Moreover, there is rather a linear correlation between F.A.M and the gestational weeks in preterm and it is changed into linearity similar to zero in term and postterm pregnancies[term(r)=0.01, postterm(r)=0.06] CONCLUSIONS: This study shows the linearity of FHR and the variable which are based on the gestational weeks organically, comprehensibly, and quantitatively. It would be utilized as the fundamental standard of the linearity. The changes from the irregular linear correlation to the regular pattern according to advancing gestational weeks means the changes from the immature and transitional level to the mature level. The closer investigation of the linear and
Female ; Fetal Heart* ; Heart Rate, Fetal* ; Pregnancy

Cleft Lip ; Congenital Abnormalities ; Hope ; Humans ; Nose ; Prognosis ; Transplants

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Epidemiologic Studies*

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Sparganosis*