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Lipoma*

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Arthroscopy* ; Knee* ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging*

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Asthma, Exercise-Induced* ; Child* ; Humans ; Incidence*

Focal brainstem encephalitis due to Herpes simplex virus if a very rare infectious disease, occurs with a frequent of 1-2 million population per year. A 3 years old girl is described with infection due to Herpes simplex virus causing brainstem encephalitis. The diagnosis was established by enzyme immunosorbent assays of the cerebrospinal fluid and serum which demonstrated antibody responsed to Herpes simplex virus. The clinicopathological features, radiological findings, laboratories and brainstem biopsies are discussed in the context of the literature.
Biopsy ; Brain Stem* ; Cerebrospinal Fluid ; Child, Preschool ; Communicable Diseases ; Diagnosis ; Encephalitis* ; Female ; Herpes Simplex* ; Humans ; Simplexvirus*

The omentum has been used over the years for a variety of clinical problems. Recently it has shown that placing the omemtum on the brain and spinal cord can lead to an extensive development of vascular connections at the omental/CNS interface. Success with omental transposition to the human brain has led to increasing intreast in placing the omentum onto the human spinal cord. One paraplegic patient was chosen to enter into a feasibility study to see if omental transposition to their spianl cord might result in clinical benefit. The length of time from injury was about 21 months respecively. This patient had little, if any, motor and sensory function below umbilicus level. The operation required surgical lengthening of the pedicled omentum followed by its placement into a subcutaneous tunnel created backward along the lateral chest wall up to T-10, 11 level. An extensive thoracic laminectomy was then performed followed bya wide opening of the dura. In our case the cord showed segmental shrinkage of the spinal cord consistent with previous trauma. The omentum was laid directly onto the underlying spinal cord. Our observation for five months has shown that placement of the omentum onto the chronically injured spinal cord allowed for subsequent improvement in neuroelectrical activity, as manifested by reproducible somatosensory evoked potentials, and, more importantly, in moter function. It is considered that placing the omentum directly upon the brain or spinal cord may have the effect of either improving local vascular perfusion or, possibly, exerting some biochemicals(neurotransmitter), or as yet unknown, influence. But further observation is warranted to determine whether this improvement will be continued and will be observed in another cases.
Brain ; Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory ; Feasibility Studies ; Humans* ; Laminectomy ; Neurotransmitter Agents ; Omentum ; Perfusion ; Sensation ; Spinal Cord ; Spinal Cord Injuries ; Thoracic Wall ; Umbilicus

Many of the thoracolumbar spine fracture may be managed conservatively by postural reduction. But postural reduction alone cannot treat all the patient with thoracolumbar spine fracture properly. Recently, more patients with thoracolumbar spine fracture are managed surgically with the advance of surgical technique and instrument. Surgery may be performed by either anterior or posterior approach according to many factors. Generally initial management of patient with thoracolumbar spine fracture is conservative and surgery is delayed for spinal fusion, but early surgery with decompression of spinal cord and fusion of the vertebral body seems to be more proper in unstable fracture with compression of spinal cord by bony fragment and incomplete neurological deficit. Authors analyzed 52 cases of thoracolumbar spine fracture and made a proper management plan and proper surgical approach.
Decompression ; Humans ; Spinal Cord ; Spinal Fusion ; Spine*

Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome is a rare inherited disorder and its common findings include pigmentary retinal degeneration, obesity, hypogonadism, mental retardation and digital anomaly. Recently, the authors experienced two cases of Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome in a family of 15 year-old male and 17 year-old female. In our cases, the male patient showed syndactyly and polydactyly, chorioretinal degeneration, hypogonadism and female patient showed polydactyly, chorioretinal degeneration, hypogonadism, obesity and mental retardation.
Adolescent ; Female ; Humans ; Hypogonadism ; Intellectual Disability ; Laurence-Moon Syndrome* ; Male ; Obesity ; Polydactyly ; Retinal Degeneration ; Syndactyly

The authors statistically analysed transferred patients among 110 ocular perforation injury patients who were admitted to the Seoul Paik Hospital between January 1, 1984 and December 31, 1988. Male was 85.9% and third decade was most common decades(30.5%). Left eye was more affected(59.8%) than right eye. The most common cause was traffic accident(37.%) and perforated site was corneo-sclera(43.%). Subconjunctival hemorrhage was the most common accompanied ocular manifestation(47.0%). Most of the perforated eyes were treated with primary closure of the wound. The final visual acuity was better in patients who were treated at only one hospital two or more hospitals before being transferred. With the above results, the final visual acuity may be related with the number of the hospital which the patients were treated before transferred.
Hemorrhage ; Humans ; Male ; Seoul ; Visual Acuity ; Wounds and Injuries

The pattern reversal visual evoked potential(PRVEP) and flash electroretinogram(flash ERG) were performed in 22 patients with optic atrophy. Patients with ophthalmologic problems other than optic atrophy or with systemic disorders were excluded from the analysis The results are as follows: 1. In the 41 eyes of patients with optic atrophy, 39 of them showed abnormal PRVEP, in which all the eyes had no consistent waveform except in one patient 2 eyes with delayed P1 latency. 2. 13 eyes were abnormal in both PRVEP and flash ERG but no eye was abnomnal in flash ERG only 3, Regarding the flash ERG examination, 13 eyes were abnomlal. Of these, there was a period of 1 to 2 years for 1 eye's disease, a period of 2 to 5 years for another eye' disease and after 5 years 11 eyes were diseased. Therefore, it showed that the longer the duration of disease lasted, the more flash ERG abnormalities developed. 4. The abnormalities of PRVEP haxe no significant relationship with the duration of the disease.
Evoked Potentials, Visual* ; Humans ; Optic Atrophy*