1.Entrapmental Paralysis of the Deep Branch of the Ulnar Nerve at the Mid-palmar Space caused by a Carpal Ganglion: A Case Report
The Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association 1994;29(3):1054-1058
The ulnar nerve entrapment at the wrist is usually caused by carpal ganglion, occupational neuritis, ulnar artery disease, fractures of the carpal bones, tumors, rheumatioid arthritis, etc. The ganglion is the most common cause of the distal ulnar nerve entrapment. A fort-two years old woman complained of insidious motor weakness of the left hand. The electromyogram revealed distal ulnar nerve palsy. On examination, her sensibility of affected hand was normal; there were no Tinel's sign and palpable mass on the Guyon's canal and palm; there was obvious wasting of all the interossei. On surgical exploration, the deep branch of the ulnar nerve was compressed by a ganglion at the mid-palmar space, not in the Guyon's canal. Four months after removal, the clawing of the 4th and 5th fingers disappeared, and the pinch power of the left hand recovered normally seventeen months later.
Animals
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Arteries
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Arthritis
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Carpal Bones
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Female
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Fingers
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Ganglion Cysts
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Hand
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Hoof and Claw
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Humans
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Paralysis
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Ulnar Nerve Compression Syndromes
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Ulnar Nerve
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Ulnar Neuropathies
2.The Surgical Treatment of The Old Nerve Injury
The Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association 1994;29(3):904-912
During recent 3 years, the authors had treated surgically 31 patients who have had old nerve injuries. 19 patients(21 nerves) of them could be followed for more than 1 year after operation. Of these patients, children were 5 and adults were 14. The elapsed time from the injury were from 3 weeks to 20 months(18 cases under 6months and 3 cases above 6 months). The methods of operation were epineural suture(4 cases), grouped interfascicular suture(8 cases), neurolysis(8cases) and nerve graft(1 case). There were satisfactory or good results in 9 nerves of the 21 old nerve injuries. In 4 of 5 children and 5 of 16 adults, good results were obtained. There were 2, 6 satisfactory or good results in 4 epineural sutures and 8 grouped interfascicular sutures and all poor results in 8 neurolyses. One case treated with nerve graft with sural nerve was showed good result. 9 cases of 18 old injuried nerves under 6 months from injury were good results. All 3 cases over 6 months from injury were poor results.
Adult
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Child
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Humans
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Sural Nerve
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Sutures
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Transplants
3.A Case of Congenital Hypoprothrombinemia.
Jong Kwang LEE ; Hae Won CHEON ; Jung Hwa LEE ; Kwang Chul LEE ; Soon Kyum KIM
Journal of the Korean Pediatric Society 1994;37(3):422-428
Congenital hypoprothrombinemia is a rare congenital coagulation defect. The clinical signs are manifestation of generalized tendency such as; mucosal bleeding, hypermenorrhea and post tooth extraction hemorrage. It is associated with prolongation of PT and PTT with normal thrombin time and decreased serum prothrombin level. A case with congenital hypoprothrombinemia was experienced by the authors. A 36 days old male baby was admitted with palor skin and vomiting started one day before admission. Right side brain parenchymal hemorrhage and left shift of lateral ventricle were on brain CT scan. Prologation of prothrombin time and partial prothrombin time with decreased serum prothrombin level were resulted. Serum factor I, V, VII, VIII, IX and X were within normal level. We report a case congenital hypoprothrombinemia with a brief review of relaed literatures.
Brain
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Female
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Fibrinogen
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Hemorrhage
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Humans
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Hypoprothrombinemias*
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Lateral Ventricles
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Male
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Menorrhagia
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Prothrombin
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Prothrombin Time
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Skin
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Thrombin Time
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Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Tooth Extraction
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Vomiting
4.A Case of Estrogen Dermatitis.
Hae Shin CHUNG ; Hang Kye SHIN ; Kwang Hoon LEE
Annals of Dermatology 1997;9(3):231-235
Sensitivity to estrogen has been described previously. The clinical picture is varied with pruritus, either generalized or localued or as urticaria. The hallmark of estrogen dermatitis is the cyclic premenstrual flare. The patient reported here had cyclic erythema multiforme-like lesions and showed a positive intradermal skin test to estrogen. A 20-year-old female patient presented with a periodic 5 year duration of skin lesions on both hands. The eruption commenced in the second half of the menstrual cycle, worsened through the luteal phase but the lesion almost disappeared during menstruation. An intradermal skin test to estrone showed positive results. However, a skin test with medroxyprogesterone acetate was negative. After systemic steroid and antihistamine therapy, the lesions were found to be significantly improved.
Dermatitis*
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Erythema
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Erythema Multiforme
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Estrogens*
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Estrone
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Female
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Hand
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Humans
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Luteal Phase
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Medroxyprogesterone Acetate
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Menstrual Cycle
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Menstruation
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Pruritus
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Skin
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Skin Tests
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Urticaria
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Young Adult
5.Tendocutaneous free flap transfer from the dorsum of the foot.
Kwang Suk LEE ; Jae Suk CHANG ; Hae Il PARK
The Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association 1993;28(4):1413-1418
No abstract available.
Foot*
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Free Tissue Flaps*
6.Congenital hypoplasia of the thumb: case report.
Kwang Suk LEE ; Sang Won PARK ; Hae Il PARK
The Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association 1991;26(3):995-999
No abstract available.
Thumb*
7.A Case of Tuberous Sclerosis.
Hae Kwang LEE ; Jin Sook LEE ; Youn Woo LEE
Journal of the Korean Pediatric Society 1980;23(9):753-757
A case of Tuberous Sclerosis, 4 year-old-Korean boy was observed. He had some symptoms about Tuberous Sclerosis which were abenoma sebaceum, seizure, shagreen patch and hypopigmented macule. Diagnosis was confirmed by facial skin biopsy and adenoma sebaceum was noticed.
Biopsy
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Diagnosis
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Humans
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Male
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Seizures
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Skin
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Tuberous Sclerosis*
8.A Comparative Study on Skin Thickness between an Old-Aged Group and a Young Aged Group by 20 MHz-High Frequency Ultrasonography.
Sung Woo CHOI ; Ji Ho LEE ; Hyung Ok KIM ; Jong Il KIM ; Hae Kwang LEE
Korean Journal of Dermatology 1999;37(6):719-725
BACKGROUND: Skin thickness for parameter of skin aging has been analysed with various methods. Skin thickness variations between the young and the old has been studied with various methods such as biopsies, calipers, micrometers, computer tomography, ultrsonography. But none of these methods evaluates skin thickness exactly. OBJECTIVE: For the evaluation of age-dependent skin thickness changes, we compared the skin thickness of an old-aged group and a young group with 20MHz-ultrasonography. METHODS: In order to identify the skin thickness variation between different age groups, 60 subjects, 30 aged 23-33, and 30 over 60, were studied with 20MHz-high frequency ultrasonogrphy (Dermascan C, Cortex Technology, Hadsund, Denmark) on fourteen skin sites. This machine was designed to measure the thickness from the top of the epidermis to the bottom of the dermis. After storage of cross-sectional skin imaging, skin thickness was calculated with a computer assisted image-analysis program. Skin thickness of the old was analysed by age, sex, height and weight.
Biopsy
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Dermis
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Epidermis
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Humans
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Skin Aging
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Skin*
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Ultrasonography*
9.The Expression of CD44H and CD44v6 in Gastric Adenocarcinoma.
Myoung Jin JU ; Hae Kyung LEE ; Kwang Min LEE ; Dong Kyu CHUNG ; Choo Hong PARK
Korean Journal of Pathology 1997;31(4):326-331
CD44, also known as the Hermes antigen, H-CAM, pgp-1 antigen, and extracellular matrix receptor ECM-III, is a widely distributed integral membrane protein that exists in a variety of forms with different molecular sizes ranging from 85kd to 160kd. A number of evidence implicates CD44 as a cell adhesion molecule with a possible role in tumor progression. To evaluate the possible roles of CD44 in the metastatic process of gastric carcinoma to the regional lymph nodes, we applicated immunohistochemical stains with the CD44H and CD44v6 primary antibodies onto the 2 groups of gastric adenocarcinomas. Each group was comprised of 22 primary tumors extending to the subserosa, and one group showed nodal metastasis, while the other group did not. Seventeen primary tumors (77%) out of the 22 cases with the nodal metastasis demonstrated positivity to the CD44v6, while only 9 primary tumors (41%) out of the 22 cases without nodal metastasis did. However CD44H immunoreactivity was demonstrated in tumor cells of all cases (100%) of both groups as well as in the normal cell components. These results suggest that CD44H form is not related to the metastasis to the regional lymph nodes of gastric carcinoma. However, the expression of CD44v6 seems to play a certain role in the metastatic process of the gastric carcinoma.
Adenocarcinoma*
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Antibodies
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Cell Adhesion
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Cellular Structures
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Coloring Agents
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Extracellular Matrix
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Lymph Nodes
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Membrane Proteins
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Neoplasm Metastasis
10.Statistical analysis of patients referred to pediatric cardiologic clinic for diagosis of heart disease.
Kwang Hae CHOI ; Young Hwan LEE
Yeungnam University Journal of Medicine 2000;17(1):49-54
BACKGROUND: Echocardiography is rapidly established itself as the primary diagnostic technique for investigation of children with heart disease, and referrals are increasing to the pediatric cardiology clinic for investigation. However, because there is a lack of analysis data on the patients referred to pediatric cardiology clinics, we have proceeded to compare and analyze their characteristics to provide basic data base. METHODS: From Oct. 1, 1998 to Jul. 10, 1999, total 443 cases referred to the pediatric cardiology clinic of Yeungnam University Hospital were studied retrospectively by medical records, chest X-ray, EKG and echocardiography, etc. RESULTS: The results were as follows. 1. The proportion of male was 61.0%(261 cases) and that of female was 39.0%(167 cases). The ratio of male to female was 1.6:1. The proportion infants less than 1 year-old was 62.6%(268 cases) of all patients. 2. Cardiac murmur was present in 248 cases(57.9%), which was the most common case of referral to the pediatric cardiology clinic. The impression at referral was more congenital heart disease(70.6%) than acquired heart disease(17.8%) and arrhythmia(11.6%). 3. The final diagnosis was as follows : congenital heart disease was present in 212 cases(49.5%), acquired heart disease, 59 cases(13.9%); arrhythmia, 13 cases(3.0%); normal heart, 144 cases(33.6%). CONCLUSION: Among the patients referred to pediatric cardiology clinic, 33.6%(144 cases) had normal hearts and why these patient were referred may be possibly due to more dependence on echocardiography than on auscultation instruction. Threfore, clinical and auscultatory skill should be emphasized to minimize dependence on expensive echocardiography for evaluation of pediatric heart disease.
Arrhythmias, Cardiac
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Auscultation
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Cardiology
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Child
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Diagnosis
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Echocardiography
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Electrocardiography
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Female
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Heart Defects, Congenital
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Heart Diseases*
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Heart Murmurs
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Heart*
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
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Medical Records
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Pediatrics
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Referral and Consultation
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Retrospective Studies
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Thorax