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The records of fifty two cases of the ileal conduit at the Seoul National University Hospital during a 6-year period from January 1, 1975 to December 31, 1980 were reviewed. 1. There were 42 males and 10 females (ratio of 4.2:1) ranged in age from 5 to 74 years with peak incidence in the 6th decade. 2. The most common indication of this procedure was bladder tumor and other indications were neurogenic bladder, bilateral ureteral stricture, genitourinary tuberculosis, actinomycosis, urethral stricture. urethral cancer and colon cancer. 3. Seventy seven percent of patients with abnormal renal function preoperatively improved postoperatively. 4. Operative mortality was 3.8%. Early complication included wound infection and disruption, sepsis, obstruction and urine leakage in ileoureteral junction, pneumonia, fecal leakage from ileoileal junction, postoperative acute renal failure, bleeding from ileal loop, and urethral bleeding. Late complication included intestinal obstruction, parastromal dermatitis, acute pyelonephritis, ureteral obstruction and incisional hernia. 5. Thirty three of 43 patients developed bacteriuria, 30.3% of the patients showed mixed infection and major causative organisms were Pseudomonas, Enterobacter, E. coli and Serratia.
Actinomycosis ; Acute Kidney Injury ; Bacteriuria ; Coinfection ; Colonic Neoplasms ; Constriction, Pathologic ; Dermatitis ; Enterobacter ; Female ; Hemorrhage ; Hernia ; Humans ; Incidence ; Intestinal Obstruction ; Male ; Mortality ; Pneumonia ; Pseudomonas ; Pyelonephritis ; Seoul ; Sepsis ; Serratia ; Tuberculosis ; Ureter ; Ureteral Obstruction ; Urethral Neoplasms ; Urethral Stricture ; Urinary Bladder Neoplasms ; Urinary Bladder, Neurogenic ; Urinary Diversion* ; Wound Infection

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of change of polyethylene resin type and manufacturing method on the wear of polyethylene tibial component. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Thirteen MG I and 10 MG II components were retrieved at revision surgery. Each polyethylene tibial component was graded for surface wear damage. Density profiles of the polyethylene were measured to examine the extent of oxidative degradation of the polyethylene. RESULTS: The primary damage mode of the MG I retrievals was scratching and metallic debris, but the primary damage mode of the MG II was delamination (P<0.05). For the implants with implantation time of 5 years or more, the MG II polyethylene had a higher density value (0.959+/-0.002 g/cc, n=7) compared with the MG I (0.948+/-0.004 g/cc, n=11). Both delamination and polyethylene degradation increased with length of implantation time for the MG II components (P<0.01). Even after gamma sterilization, the directly molded 1900 MG I components experienced significantly less delamination and degradation than the machined GUR 415 MG II tibial components. CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that delamination of polyethylene tibial components is influenced by resin type and/or manufacturing method
Fungi ; Polyethylene* ; Sterilization

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Diagnosis, Differential* ; Humans ; Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms*

Allergic contact dermatitis to topical agents mostly results from vehicles and preservatives and rarely from the active ingredients. Ribavirin, an active ingredient of Viramid® cream, is a synthetic nucleoside derivative with broad spectrum activity against a wide variety of DNA and RNA viruses. We report an 18-year-old woman, who had a perioral edematous patch with exudative crusts after topical application of Viramid® cream (nsung pharmaceutical Co., Korea) for the treatment of herpes labiahs. A patch test showed that the sensitizer was ribavirin, the active ingredient of the antiviral agent, Viramid® cream.
Adolescent ; Dermatitis, Allergic Contact* ; DNA ; Female ; Humans ; Patch Tests ; Ribavirin* ; RNA Viruses

Allergic contact dermatitis to topical agents mostly results from vehicles and preservatives and rarely from the active ingredients. Ribavirin, an active ingredient of Viramid® cream, is a synthetic nucleoside derivative with broad spectrum activity against a wide variety of DNA and RNA viruses. We report an 18-year-old woman, who had a perioral edematous patch with exudative crusts after topical application of Viramid® cream (nsung pharmaceutical Co., Korea) for the treatment of herpes labiahs. A patch test showed that the sensitizer was ribavirin, the active ingredient of the antiviral agent, Viramid® cream.
Adolescent ; Dermatitis, Allergic Contact* ; DNA ; Female ; Humans ; Patch Tests ; Ribavirin* ; RNA Viruses

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Cadherins* ; Carcinogenesis* ; Urinary Bladder*

We report a case of drug eruption and liver damage due to diaminodiphenyl suIfone(DDS) ingestion in a 17-year-old female. This patient had taken DDS for 20 days, 100mg-200mg daily to treat an unknown skin disease. Thereafter, she had generalized erythematous eruption on whole body, icteric sclera and fever. Liver function test showed abnormality (SGOT 514 unit, SGPT 710 unit, alkarine phosphotase 4. 3 B.U., total biIirubin 7. Oml/dl, direct bilirubin 4. 8mg/dl). The adverse reactiions to DDS are gastrointestinal intolerance, hemolytic, anemia, methemoglobinemia, agranulocytoais, hepatitis, neuritis, psychosis and a skin rash described as a fixed drug eruption, erythema multiforme, exfoliative dermatitis and toxic epidermal necrolysis. In Korea, DDS has been used for the treatment of skin diseases of various types for a long time without prescription, especially in rural areas. This trend is a significant sociomediical problem in Korea.
Adolescent ; Alanine Transaminase ; Anemia ; Bilirubin ; Dermatitis, Exfoliative ; Drug Eruptions* ; Eating ; Erythema Multiforme ; Exanthema ; Female ; Fever ; Hepatitis ; Humans ; Korea ; Liver Function Tests ; Liver* ; Methemoglobinemia ; Neuritis ; Prescriptions ; Psychotic Disorders ; Sclera ; Skin Diseases ; Stevens-Johnson Syndrome

The incidence in women less than 35 years of age is increasing despite an overall decrease in newly diagnosed invasive cervieal cancer among all age groups. However the influence of young age on prognosis remains controversial. So 163 patients of invasive cervical cancer in women aged 35 or less treated from Jan. 1, 1984 to Dec. 31. 1993 at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kosin Medical College, Pusan, Korea, were studied retrospectively. We obtained the following results; The 5-year survival rates by clinical stage were 88.7Y% in stage I b, 71.5% in stage IIa, 31.2% in stage IIb and O% in stage III or above. The lymph node metastasis rates by stage in RAH group, were 21.3% in stage I b and 31.8% in stage IIa. The lymph nodc metastasis rates by lesion size in RAH group, were 19.2% in 2cm below, 20.7% in 2-4cm and 40.0% in 4cm above. The 5-year survival rates in RAH group were 74,9% in lymph node positive group and 89.0% in lymph node negative group. The recurrenee rates by clinieal stage were 0% in stage Ia, 20.6% in stage I b, 22.2% in stage IIa, 50.0% in stage Ilb and 90.9% in stage III or above.
Busan ; Female ; Gynecology ; Humans ; Incidence ; Korea ; Lymph Nodes ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Obstetrics ; Prognosis ; Retrospective Studies ; Survival Rate ; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms*