1.Slow virus and endocrine disease.
Yong Sun KIM ; Eun Kyoung CHOI ; I Carp RICHAR
Journal of Korean Society of Endocrinology 1993;8(1):6-14
No abstract available.
Endocrine System Diseases*
2.Nursing Students' Practice Experience in Neonatal Intensive Care Units.
Eun A CHOI ; Kyoung Eun LEE ; Young Eun LEE
Child Health Nursing Research 2015;21(3):261-271
PURPOSE: This study was done to identify the meaning and substantial nature of NICU practice among nursing students by applying a research method based on hermeneutic phenomenology in an attempt to lay a foundation for enhancing theoretical and practical child nursing education. METHODS: The participants were eight nursing student who had experience in clinical practicing in NICU. In-depth interviews were performed from April to December, 2014 until data were fully saturated. Collected data were analyzed using Colaizzi's method. RESULTS: Seven theme clusters were extracted from fourteen themes. The seven theme clusters of the nursing students' clinical practice experience in NICU were: 1) Excitement about the clinical practice setting 2) Afraid of practice environment 3) Babies have priority over clinical practice 4) Comparing with adult nursing clinical practice 5) Feeling pity for babies and their parents 6) New awareness about the role of nurses 7) Demands of enhancing clinical practice. CONCLUSION: The results of the study provide useful information in understanding nursing students' practice experience in NICU and establishing effective strategies to support these nursing students.
Adult
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Child
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Education, Nursing
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Humans
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Infant, Newborn
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Intensive Care Units, Neonatal*
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Intensive Care, Neonatal*
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Nursing*
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Parents
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Qualitative Research
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Students, Nursing
3.Spiritual Welling-Being, Attitude to Death and Perception of Hospice Care in College Students.
Young Eun LEE ; Eun Ah CHOI ; Kyoung Eun LEE
Korean Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care 2015;18(4):294-305
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to provide baseline data for the development of an educational program for hospice care for college students. METHODS: A survey was conducted at three universities in B city with 143 students from September 5, 2014 through September 26, 2014. The data were analyzed by the SPSS 18 program. This study was approved by IRB. RESULTS: The college students' spiritual well-being was at a medium level. Their attitudes to death were neutral, and perception of hospice care was at a medium level. Most of the participants (93.0%) had no training in hospice care. The participants' awareness of the purpose of hospice care was at a relatively high level. Their awareness of the need for hospice care was at a moderate level. The participants' spiritual well-being and their attitudes to death showed a weak but positive correlation (r=0.179, P=0.030). The relationship between their spiritual well-being and awareness of hospice care were positively correlated (r=0.203, P=0.015). CONCLUSION: The participants' perception of hospice care was low. Most of them had no experience of hospice care education. Also, the higher the spiritual stability was, the higher the participants' perception of the purpose and the necessity of hospice care was. And their perception of the hospice care varied depending on their family relationship, satisfaction with school life, and cognition of hospice care. Therefore, we need consider these variables to develop a hospice education program to enhance college students' attitudes to death and their perception of hospice care.
Attitude to Death*
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Cognition
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Education
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Ethics Committees, Research
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Family Relations
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Hospice Care*
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Hospices*
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Humans
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Spirituality
4.Pathologic Correlations of Various Indications for Large Loop Excision of Transformation Zone(LLETZ) in Patients with Cervical Lesion.
Young Tae KIM ; Jae Wook KIM ; Kyung Ju LEE ; Eun Kyoung CHOI ; Eun Mi CHO
Korean Journal of Gynecologic Oncology and Colposcopy 2000;11(2):174-183
OBJECTIVE: This study was performed to evaluate the effects of mutiple indications and age on the likelihood of finding cervical lesion in large loop excision of transformation zone(LLETZ). METHOD: We reviewed the medical records of 471 evaluable LLETZ of cervix for cervical neoplasia at the Yonsei University College of Medicine, from April 1996 to August l998. The indications for the LLETZ were grouped as being for treatment(biopsy-proven disease)(indication A), significant discrepancy among cytologic and histologic results(indication B), unsatisfactory colposcopic finding(transformation zone not fully visualized)(indication C), possible microinva- sion(indication D), and combinations of the above. RESULTS: The prevalence rates of cervical lesion in performed LLETZ for indication A alone, for indication B alone, for a combination of indication A and C, for a combination B and C, and for indication D alone were 85.7%, 56.5%, 82.3%, 42.6%, 95%, respectively. The data were then reanalyzed to determine the likelihood of finding high-grade disease on LLETZ specimen. Overall, those with preoperative high-grade cytologic or histologic characteristics were much more likely to have high grade disease(78.1%) than were those with preoperative low-grade cytologic or histologic characteristics(27.2%)(p<0.001). The influence of age on the likelihood of identifying diasease on the LLETZ is undertermined. CONCLUSION: Neither age nor the preoperative grade of disease are good discriminators of the likelihood that disease will be found on a LLETZ specimen, However, patients with preoperative high-grade disease are much more likely than those with preoperative low-grade disease to have high-grade dysplasia or invasive cancer on LLETZ.
Cervix Uteri
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Female
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Humans
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Medical Records
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Prevalence
5.A Case of Skin Metastasis from Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma of Parotid Gland Mimicking Radiodermatitis.
Kyoung Jin KIM ; Sung Eun CHANG ; Jee Ho CHOI ; Kyung Jeh SUNG ; Kee Chan MOON ; Jai Kyoung KOH
Annals of Dermatology 2001;13(3):171-174
Cutaneous metastasis from parotid gland carcinoma is very rare and there have been no re-ports in Korean literatures. Furthermore, it can often manifest as inflammatory type of skin metastasis and mimic a radiodermatitis. We report a case of a 31-year-old Korean man with cutaneous metastasis originated from parotid gland mucoepidermoid carcoinoma which mimicked clinically a radiodermatitis.
Adult
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Carcinoma, Mucoepidermoid*
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Humans
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Neoplasm Metastasis*
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Parotid Gland*
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Radiodermatitis*
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Skin*
6.Gastric Carcinoma with Lymphoid Stroma: Pathologic and immunohistochemical study of 14 cases.
Eun Hee LEE ; Woo Young JANG ; Kyoung Chan CHOI ; Young Ran SHIM ; Joon Hyuk CHOI ; Won Hee CHOI
Korean Journal of Pathology 1996;30(2):115-120
A total of 672 surgically resected gastric carcinomas were reviewed, and fourteen cases(2.1%) of "gastric carcinoma with lymphoid stroma" were identified. The tumor was located mostly in cardia and body portion(86%). Thirteen patients one was lost to follow up were alive without recurrence of tumor. Grossly, this carcinoma was characterized by an expanding growth pattern or a multinodular pattern. Histologically, this carcinoma showed an irregular trabecular and alveolar arrangement and densely infiltrated lymphoid cells with lymph follicles. The tumor cell nests were widely separated by non-desmoplastic lymphoid stroma. On immunohistochemical study, T cells were evenly distributed throughout the tumor lesion with intimate contact with individual carcinoma cells, but B cells were mainly present within the germinal centers of lymph follicles. Thus, the organized immune response combined with cell mediated and humoral immunities against the carcinoma cells may be a defense mechanism of the host in this type of gastric carcinoma.
7.Cases with Endometrial Polyp and Endocervical Polyp Associated With Tamoxifen Use.
Byung Hoon CHOE ; Eun Kyoung CHOI ; Young Tae KIM ; Jae Wook KIM ; Byung Woo PARK
Korean Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2000;43(4):725-730
Tamoxifen is a nonsteroidal triphenylethylene delivative that has been widely used in the treatment of breast cancer. tamoxifen is indicated for the adjuvant treatment of breast cancer in women following total mastectomy or segmental mastectomy, breast irradiation and chemotherapy. tamoxifen has been shown to have significant benificial effect in the treatment of breast cancer patient as hormonal therapy. However ,there is mounting evidence that tamoxifen may affect other hormon sensitive organs, including the uterus and ovaries. An increased risk of endometrial polyps, endometrial hyperplasia and adenocarcinoma has been reported in tamoxifen treated women. We have met cases of endometrial polyp and endocervical polyp which were associated with tamoxifen use, after modified radical mastectomy for infilterating ductal carcinoma of breast . So we report these cases with the brief review of literatures.
Adenocarcinoma
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Breast
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Breast Neoplasms
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Carcinoma, Ductal
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Drug Therapy
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Endometrial Hyperplasia
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Female
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Humans
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Mastectomy, Modified Radical
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Mastectomy, Segmental
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Mastectomy, Simple
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Ovary
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Polyps*
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Tamoxifen*
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Uterus
8.Expression of E-cadherin and alpha - , beta - , gamma - catenin proteins in endometrial carcinoma.
Eun Kyoung CHOI ; Young Tae KIM ; Woo Ick YANG ; Jae Wook KIM
Korean Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2000;43(4):625-634
OBJECTIVES: E-cadherin is a transmembrane protein that is one of the key players involved in cell to cell adhesion. Loss of E-cadherin expression is suggested to promote tumor invasion and distant metastasis in tumor development. Recently, it has been proposed E-cadherin function requires its linkage to the cytoskeleton through catenins. So defects in catenins may cause defective E-cadherin function and promote tumor invasion. We intend to evaluate the expression of E-cadherin and alpha-, beta-, gamma- catenin in tissues of human endometrial carcinoma to analyze the patterns of cell adhesion molecules' expression in endometrial carcinoma and to investigate the relationship between status of cell adhesion molecules and various clinicopathological factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The present study investigated the immunohistochemical expression of E-cadherin and alpha-, beta-, gamma- catenin in 33 paraffin embedded formalin fixed tissues of endometrial carcinomas. RESULTS: Aberrant E-cadherin, alpha-, beta-, gamma- catenin expression was observed in 33.3(11 of 33), 27.3(9 of 33), 18.2 (6 of 33), and 51.5(17 of 33) % of the specimens, respectively. Statistically significant correlation was found between aberrant expression of E-cadherin and lymph node metastasis and cell types other than endometrioid adenocarcinoma. Aberrant pattern of gamma- catenin expression also correlated with deep myometrial invasion. But alpha-, beta- catenin expression were not correlated with any clinicopathological parameters. Using Kaplan-Meier curves, abnormal expression of E-cadherin correlated closely with poor survival (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: We revealed aberrant expression of these cell adhesion molecules in part of patients with endometrial carcinoma. Aberrant expression of E-cadherin was correlated with lymph node metastasis and cell types other than endometrioid adenocarcinoma and aberrant expression of gamma-catenin was related with deep myometrial invasion.
Cadherins*
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Carcinoma, Endometrioid
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Catenins*
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Cell Adhesion
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Cell Adhesion Molecules
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Cytoskeleton
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Endometrial Neoplasms*
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Female
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Formaldehyde
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gamma Catenin
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Humans
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Lymph Nodes
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Neoplasm Metastasis
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Paraffin
9.Expression of S100 protein ?subunit mRNA in brain of mouse infected with unconventional slow virus.
Eun Kyoung CHOI ; Yong Sun KIM ; Hyung Mo YANG ; Jin KIM ; Il Je YU ; Marshak CARP
Journal of the Korean Society of Virology 1993;23(2):105-112
No abstract available.
Animals
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Brain*
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Mice*
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RNA, Messenger*
10.Congenital Acute Myelocytic Leukemia: An autopsy case.
Kyu Rae KIM ; Eun Kyoung HAN ; In Joon CHOI ; Chang Hyun YANG ; Kir Young KIM
Korean Journal of Pathology 1988;22(3):308-316
Leukemia is a rare disease in the newborn infant. We have presented an autopsy case of congenital acute myelocytic leukemia in a female neonate and discussecd with review of literature. At birth, she was relatively in good health with 4.2 kg in body weight except a large cephalhematoma on left parietal scalp and multiple subcutaneous nodules with ecchymosis on entire body surface. Hemoglobin concentration was 12.0 gm/, Hct 34.6% and erythrocyte count was 2.24 millions. Of 212,400 leukocytes/mm2, 47% were myeloblast. Biopsy of skin nodules reveal leukemia cutis, which disappear dramatically with anticancer drug. The infant was expired 12 days after admission due to intracerebral hemorrhage and acute renal failure.
Infant
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Male
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Female
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Infant, Newborn
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Humans
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Biopsy