No abstract available.
Dislocations*

With the increasing age of the population, abdominal aneurysms are increasing in frequency, especially in the old age. At present, surgical excision is recommended for all abdominal aneurysm as soon as possible after the diagnosis has been made because of its high incidence of rupture, a fatal complication. Authors had experienced 3 cases of ruptured abdominal aortic anurysm with a succesfully surgical repaire in intraduodenal ruptur of abdominal aortic aneurysm is Surgical Department, St. Mary's Hosp. Leterature was briefly reviewed.
Aneurysm ; Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal* ; Diagnosis ; Incidence ; Rupture

No abstract available.
Cyclic GMP* ; Cytomegalovirus* ; Gene Expression* ; Humans*

Aplasia cutis congenita is a rare disorder characterized by localized or generalized absence of skin at birth. The various hypothesis and classification are proposed. Type V in Frieden's classification, which is associated with fetus papyraceus or placental infarcts, occurs as a large cutaneous defect on the trunk and extremities. We experienced the patient had skin defect affecting the lower abdomen symmetrically, with no family history of the any disorders or chromosomal anomalies and associated anomalies. A twin fetus was died in utero. We report a case of aplasia cutis congenita associated with fetus papyraceus with the review of the associated literatures.
Abdomen ; Classification ; Ectodermal Dysplasia* ; Extremities ; Fetus ; Humans ; Parturition ; Skin ; Twins

Supracondylar fracture of the humerus is the one of the commonest elbow fracture in children. There are much controversies surrounding the method of treatment for various and frequent complications such as cubitus varus and joint stiffness, etc. For the period of 2 years and 8 months from Jan. 1987 to Aug. 1989, 32 patients had undergone treatment at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Choongang Gil Hospital. Ten cases among them were treated with close reduction and cast, 8 cases were treated with close reduction and pinning, and 14 cases were treated with open reduction and internal fixation. The results obtained are as follows; l. Of all fractures, extension type was 96.9%, and flexion type was 3.1%. According to the Holmberg classification, 5 cases belong to Group I (15.6%), 10 to Group II (31.3%), 7 to Group III (21.9%), and 10 to Group IV (31.3%). 2. Radial nerve injuries which now are thought to be neuropraxia were the most common form of concomitant injuries. 3. All fractures were found to obtain bone union with mean duration of bone union about 40.9 days. 4. There were 7 cases (21.9%) who had more than 10 degrees of elbow motion limitation. Three cases (9.4%) showed the change of carrying angle over 10 degrees in Group IV by Holmberg classification. 5. By the modified Mitchell and Adams' criteria for grading results, Excellent was 22 cases (68.7%), Good was 7 cases (21.9%), Fair was 2 cases (6.3%), and Poor was 1 case (3.1%). 6. In Holmberg classification, the higher severity, the longer mean duration of bone union and the higher joint stiffness made the prognosis worse.
Bone Cysts ; Child ; Classification ; Elbow ; Humans ; Humerus ; Joints ; Methods ; Prognosis ; Radial Nerve

Pulmonary artery sling is an uncommon and potentially lethal vascular anomaly that can produce airway obstruction. Despite the availibility of a corrective operation, the mortality rate remains very high due to the high incidence of associated obstructive anomalies of the tracheobronchial tree. We experienced a 70-day-old male infant who was admitted to our unit because of sudden dyspnea, cyanosis, coarse expiratory wheezing and inspiratory stridor. At first, he was treated with bronchodilator and steroid under the impression of infantile asthma, but the symptoms went on without interval change. We performed magnetic resonance imaging study followed esophagography and two dimensional echocardiography. Finally he was diagnosed as a vascular sling. We report this with a brief review and related literatures.
Airway Obstruction ; Asthma ; Cyanosis ; Dyspnea ; Echocardiography ; Humans ; Incidence ; Infant ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Male ; Mortality ; Pulmonary Artery ; Respiratory Sounds

The clinical life-time and the causes for the change of soft contact lens(SCL) were analyzed according to the sex, age and kinds of SCL. The clinical life-time(time interval of changing of the SCL) was 6.9 months on the average. In the clinical life-time and the causes for the change of SCL, there were no sexual difference and also no difference between plus and minus lenses(p>0.05). However, there were significant differences in them according to the age and kinds of SCL(p<0.05).In groups below 10 years old and over 60 years old, and in the extended SCL, loss rates were relatively high. This was thought to be related to shortening theclinical life-time of SCL.
Child ; Contact Lenses, Hydrophilic* ; Humans ; Middle Aged

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A questionnaire to investigate the uses of topical ophthalmic drugs without doctor's presciption was made up to the general public. The subjects of study were 446 outpatients' guardians, and 46.1% of them had an experience of purchasing the topical ophthalmic drugs without doctor's prescription. The main cause of purchasing the drugs is conjunctival hyperemia. The kinds of drugs used were 8 of anti-infectives, 5 of corticosteroids, 5 of decongestants, and 2 of others, of which the decongestants were the most purchased drugs without doctor's prescription. About one third of them used the drugs irregulary, or more than 1 month. The rate of no improvement after the use of drugs was 58.8%.
Adrenal Cortex Hormones ; Hyperemia ; Nasal Decongestants ; Prescriptions* ; Surveys and Questionnaires

No abstract available.
Asthma* ; Theophylline*