No abstract available.
Paralysis*

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We report a case of Ael in a 44-year old woman. The patient s red cells were typed as 0 and her serum had both anti-A and anti-B, but the agglutination strength with Al cell was weaker (2+) than with B cell (4+) in her serum. Additional tests showed that the red cells were not agglutinated by anti-A,B and A antigen on patient s RBC was demonstrated by adsorption-elution test. Her saliva contained H but no A substance, and the ABO genotyping test identified her blood type as AO. We concluded that this was a case of blood type Ael with anti-A. (Korean J Blood Transfusion 10(1): 69 75, 1999)
Adult ; Agglutination ; Blood Transfusion ; Female ; Humans ; Saliva

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Though many effort,s have been made to develop a safe and effective treatment to control osmidrosis, no such goal has been achieved yet. A subcutaneous shaving method, developed by Inaba, appeared to be a favorable choice because of minimal postoperative scar formation. The authors, with this method operated on 112 cases of osmidrosis and compared the results with those of conventianal surgical therapy performed earlier in our department. The results were as follows : 1. The. average age at the time of the operation was 22.0 years old, and the sex ratio between male and female was 37 to 75. 2. The age onset ranged from 11 to 36 years with average of 15.5 years. 3. Family history for osmidrosis was found in 84.8%. 4. General anesthesia were used in 13 cases, while 99 cases were operated under local anesthesia. 5. The mean duration for operation were 75 minutes. 6. Flematoma were observed in 4.5%, wound disruption in 1.3%, and skin necrosis in 3.1%. 7. The results of analysis in 72 follow up cases for more than 6 months showed: 1). Rate for successful reduction of the malodor was 91.7%. 2) The rate of suppression of sweating was 88.9%. 3) The rate of skin tensian with motion was 2.8%. 4 ) The, pstoperative scars were mild or invisible in 95.1%
Anesthesia, General ; Anesthesia, Local ; Cicatrix ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Male ; Necrosis ; Sex Ratio ; Skin ; Sweat ; Sweating ; Wounds and Injuries

Pretwisting the patellar tendon graft has been advocated hy many authors. Lambert has described a 90 degrees pretwist to benifit the fat pad vascular supply as well as to "" simulate the helicoid course of the ACL "". This technique has also been recommended to fascilitate fixation. Jackson has recommended a 90 pretwist to decrease the possibility of abrasive wear on the tunnel edge, and also to fascilitate fixation as much as a 180 degrees pretwist has heen recommended. However, in spite of all these recommendations, little work has been done on the effect of such pretwisting on the biomechanical behavior of patellar tendon grafts. The purpose of this study is to discover, by experiment, the effects of a 360 degrees external rotation pretwist on the following tensile mechanical properties of canine central 1/3 patellapatellar tendon-tibia complex : (a) ultimate stress, (b) ultimate strain, (c) average elastic modulus, and (d) strain energy density. Five groups of each S specimens were divided as group 1 (0 degrees external rotation), group 2 (90 degrees external rotation). group 3 (180 degrees external rotation), group 4 (270 degreesexternal rotation), and group 5 (360 degrees external rotation). The direction of pretwist meant the twist of tibia around patella. The effects of pretwist were analyzed using parameter one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA)(P1) and nonparameter Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA)(P2) with repeated measures followed by Scheff multiple comparison test. A p values of < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Among each groups ultimate stress (P1=0.059, P2=0.095), ultimate strain(P1=0.154, P2=0. l65), and average elastic modulus(P1=0.814, P2=0.818) were not statistically significant. Only strain energy density was the statistically significant difference between group 2 and group 5(P1=0.008, P2=0.022). As a result, there were observed that the ultimate stress and strain energy density were decreased and ultimate strain was decreased but there were not statistically significant differences hetween groups because of the small number of samples, and there will be advantages for graft to avoid ahrasive wear on the tunnel edge and lateral femoral condyle. But, more studies are needed for human being in the future.
Adipose Tissue ; Elastic Modulus ; Humans ; Patella ; Patellar Ligament* ; Tibia ; Transplants

PURPOSE: We evaluated the effectiveness of balloon dilatation and bougienage of post operative anastomotic stricture of upper G-I tract. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We performed 22 balloon dilatation and 24 Bougienage in 40 patients of post operative anastomotic stricture. The causes of operation were esophageal cancer(n=20), stomach cancer(n=16), laryngeal cancer(n=2), chemical(n=2) strictures. RESULTS: Successful dilatations of the anastomotic site stricture were achieved during the procedure in 38 patients(95%). There was one case of esophageal perforation as a complication. CONCLUSION: Esophageal balloon dilatation and Bougienage are safe and effective method for post operative anastomotic site stricture of upper G-I tract.
Constriction, Pathologic* ; Dilatation* ; Esophageal Perforation ; Humans ; Stomach

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Spine*

No abstract available.
Neck* ; Urinary Bladder Neck Obstruction* ; Urinary Bladder*

No abstract available.
Somatoform Disorders*