Coloboma is a lacking of a portion of structure of the eye. Congenital colobomas are due to some interference with the normal closure of the emoryonic cleft, the aberration lying primarily in the epiblast of the cup and occur between the time of invagination of the vesicle and closure of the cleft. The authors have experienced 3 cases of the typical colobomas of iris, ciliary body, choroid, retina and optic nerve. Two of the cases had familial history. Extracapsular cataract extraction was performed in one eye of the case and resulted in slight improvement in vision.
Cataract Extraction ; Choroid ; Ciliary Body ; Coloboma* ; Deception ; Germ Layers ; Iris ; Optic Nerve ; Retina

Visual conversion reaction is characterized by fluctuating visual acuity and tubular fields in the absence of any organic lesion. It is thought that the environmental and psychological factors contribute to the onset of symptom. Twenty-two cases of visual conversion reactions were evaluated clinically and the results were as follows. 1. Visual conversion reaction is more frequent in females and children and low vision is almost always affected bilaterally. 2. Sixteen cases(72.7%) showed tubular and constricted fields inspite of normal CT and electrophysiologic responses. 3. Of the cases, 86.4%(19/22) had improved their reduced visual acuity to over 0.8 after treatment with suggestion, placebo, plano lenses and some kind of psychotheraphy.
Child ; Conversion Disorder* ; Female ; Humans ; Psychology ; Vision, Low ; Visual Acuity

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Apgar Score* ; Depression* ; Humans ; Psychology*

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Apgar Score* ; Depression* ; Humans ; Psychology*

The empty sella syndrome is characterized by obesity, frequent pregnancy, headache and high blood pressure, but its exact cause remains unknown. Usually the incomplete diaphragmatic sella has been considered as the cause of the empty sella syndrome, but some authors recently have suggested that the antipituitary antibody way be related to development of pituitary atrophy and the pituitary empty sella syndrome, and thus it may be clinically useful as screening test for the empty sella syndrome. We experienced two empty sella syndromes associated Graves disease and applied the antipituitary antibody as the diagnostic tool of the empty sella syndrome. But none of this two patients had antipituitary antibody and we report these cases with reviews of literatures.
Atrophy ; Empty Sella Syndrome ; Graves Disease ; Headache ; Humans ; Hypertension ; Mass Screening ; Obesity ; Pregnancy

No abstract available.
Aspirin* ; Coronary Aneurysm ; Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome*

Two cases of spontaneous kidney rupture with literatural review was presented at first in Korea. 1) 56 years male patient and 25 years male patient admitted to our department of Urology through Emergency Room after onset of 2 and 1 day. after treatment at local clinic. 2) Chief complaints were one side flank pain which was followed by total gross hematuria. 3) Preoperative diagnoses were kidney rupture due to necrotic pelvic tumor in 56 years male and hypernephroma in 25 years male patient. 4) Operation was procedured at 8 days and 4 days after admission respectively. 5) The operative procedure were nephrectomy in both cases. 6) The pathological diagnoses were pelvis rupture due to renal stone and parenchymal rupture due to renal infarction in each case.
Carcinoma, Renal Cell ; Diagnosis ; Emergency Service, Hospital ; Flank Pain ; Hematuria ; Humans ; Infarction ; Kidney* ; Korea ; Male ; Nephrectomy ; Pelvis ; Rupture ; Rupture, Spontaneous* ; Surgical Procedures, Operative ; Urology

We report 23 cases of silicone stents intubation for obstruction of lacrimal drainage system in 23 patients with tearing and mucopurulent material discharge from January 1985 to April 1988. The success rate of silicone stents intubation was 47.4% and the most common site of obstruction was nasolacrimal duct(56.5%). 30.3% of patients had complications related to silicone stents, conjunctivitis, punctal erosion etc. With these results, we consider that congenital dacryostenosis, partical and complete nasolacrimal duct obstruction is mainly indicated for silicone stents intubation and better results will be gained if be done with acryocystorhinostomy to prevent complications related to silicone stents.
Conjunctivitis ; Drainage* ; Humans ; Intubation* ; Nasolacrimal Duct ; Silicones* ; Stents

Acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy (APMPPE) is an inflammatory disease of the retina characterized by rapid loss of central vision, secondary to multiple flat yellow-whitish placoid lesions at the level of the pigment epithelium on the posterior pole. The fluorescein angiography demonstrates initial hypofluorescence in the lesion, where shows hyperfluorescence later. Usually, the central vision is recovered spontaneousely despite of permanent alterations in the pigment epithelium. The authors describe the clinical analysis of 19 cases of APMPPE treated at Department of Ophthalmology, Pusan Paik Hospital, Inje Medical college from January 1986 to July 1990. The results were as follows: 1) Ten cases(54%)occurred in the third decade. 2) Bilateral involvement occurred in 17 cases(90%) and 4 cases of those showed a different onset of symptoms in both eyes. 3) Nine cases(48%) occurred in the summer. 4) The symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection(URI) preceded by an average six days. 5) The symptoms of URI was indicated by 13 of the patients(68%). 6) Seventeen eyes(47%) showed uveitis as the combined ocular sign. 7) The lymphocytosis of cerebrospinal fluid was shown in four of eight cases(50%). In the complete blood count, leukocytosis was shown with 78% of all. 8) The visual acuity was below 0.4 in 83% of all at the time of presentation, and the final visual acuity was above 0.5 in 89% of all. 9) The visual acuity improved an average of eight weeks after the onset of symptoms.
Blood Cell Count ; Busan ; Cerebrospinal Fluid ; Epithelium ; Fluorescein Angiography ; Leukocytosis ; Lymphocytosis ; Ophthalmology ; Respiratory System ; Retina ; Uveitis ; Visual Acuity

No abstract available.
Aspergillus* ; Sinusitis*