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Geriatrics* ; Primary Health Care*

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Venous Thrombosis

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Acantholysis* ; Captopril* ; Penicillamine* ; Rifampin* ; Skin*

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Calcium Carbonate* ; Calcium* ; Humans ; Renal Dialysis*

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Congenital Abnormalities* ; Fingers* ; Plastics*

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Piriformis Muscle Syndrome*

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Infeared tympanic membrane thermometer (ITMT) provides an accurate estimate of tympanic membrane temperature in healthy children and may accurately reflect core body temperature. This study was undertaken to determine if temperature readings using this newly designed ITMT are affected by the presence of acute suppurative otitis media (ASOM) in children. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Forty children with unilateral acute suppurative otitis media were enrolled in the study. Temperature of ASOM was measured in both ears using ITMT and compared to 20 normal children. RESULTS: In acute suppurative otitis media, the mean temperature in infected ears was 1.28t higher than that in uninfected ears (p(0.05). The mean temperature of normal children was 36.34C and there was statistically significant difference between normal and unilateral acute otitis media. CONCLUSION: The ITMT was found to be accurate, rapidly responding and easy to use. It may help to diagnose acute unilateral suppurative otitis media combined with pneumatic otoscopy md tympanogram.
Body Temperature ; Child ; Ear ; Humans ; Otitis Media ; Otitis Media, Suppurative* ; Otoscopy ; Reading ; Thermometers ; Tympanic Membrane*

We investigated the distribution of S-100 protein positive dendritic cells in the skin lesions with tuberculoid sturcture. For this study, we selected the paraffin blocks of biopsied specimens with the characteristic histopathology of lupus vulgaris (5cases), tubereulosis verrucosa cutis (1 case), lupus milaris disseminatus faciei (4 cases), and erythema induratum (7 cases). The cells were identified by immunohistochemical demonstration in paraffin sections. The results were as follows: 1. S-100 protein positive dendritic cells were regularly visualized in all lesions examined. 2. S-100 protein positive dendritic cells appeared usually between the lymphohistiocytic infiltrates around the tuberculoid granulomas in contrast to the cells of monocyte-macrophage system which were within the granulomas. And they appeared occasionally (e.g. in a case of lupus vulgaris) between epitheloid cells in the granulomas. 3. S-100 protein positive dendritic cells were more numerous in the granulomatous lesions which showed the well-formed tuberculoid sturcture. From these results, we suggested the S-100 protein positive dendritic cells act as accessory cells in the pathogenesis of the granulomatous lesions by the delayed type hypersensitivity.
Dendritic Cells* ; Erythema Induratum ; Granuloma ; Hypersensitivity ; Lupus Vulgaris ; Paraffin ; S100 Proteins ; Skin*

We report a case of MALT lymphoma in a 49-year-old woman. Her disease occurred simultaneously in the mucosa of her right upper eyelid conjunctiva and in her left nostril as ulcerating tumors associated with itchy ichthyosiform skin lesions on the trunk, hyperkeratotic palms and soles, and dystrophic nails. Histopathological examinations revealed consistent findings of MALT lymphoma with dissemination; i.e., diffuse infiltrates of lymphoplasmacytoid cells with a few Russel body-like structures, eosinophils, some shoddy granulomas under the irregularly hyperplastic epidermis, and diffuse infiltrates of CCL ( centrocyte-like ) cells and small lymphocytes inside and outside many lymphoid follicle-like structures in the subcutaneous tissue forming florid lymphoepithelial lesions. She died after 27 months duration of her disease with worsening of ichthyosiform skin lesions and dystrophic nails in spite of total excision of the tumors. We discuss the clinical and histopathologic features of MALT lymphoma with dissemination and the various similar diseases to differentiate.
Conjunctiva ; Eosinophils ; Epidermis ; Eyelids* ; Female ; Glycogen Storage Disease Type VI ; Granuloma ; Humans ; Lymphocytes ; Lymphoma, B-Cell, Marginal Zone* ; Middle Aged ; Mucous Membrane ; Skin ; Subcutaneous Tissue ; Ulcer

PURPOSE:There were many controversies whether constitutional delay of growth and puberty(CDGP) is simple varient of normal growth pattern, or one of the cause of growth disturbance induced by the disturbance of growth hormone secrtion or its function. So we studied about the difference in serum peak growth hormone level after insulin, L-dopa provocation test, and serum IGF-I leve between constitutional delay of growth and puberty(CDGP) and familial short stature(FSS). METHODS:Measurement of serum peak growth hormone and insulin like growth factor-I(IGF-I) level after insulin, L-dopa provocation test were performed in 33 children with costitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP). Two groups of children with familial short stature (FSS) whose height were below 10 percentile for chronologic age of Korean national height standards were included as control groups. RESULTS: 1)There were no significant difference of serum peak growth hormone level between children with CDGP and children with FSS and these results were similar in both sex. 2)The mean serum IGF-I level of children with CDGP were 125.69+/-4.06 ng/ml(71.53-189.34ng/ml) in male, 157.7+/-3.17ng/ml(81.9-279.2ng/ml) in female. Both results were significantly lower to those of FSS children by chronologic age group because the mean serum IGF-I level of FSS children were 190.19+/-7.97ng/ml (87.64-297.6ng/ml) in male, 205.47+/-15.87ng/ml(61.7-433.1ng/ml) in female. But compared to FSS children by bone age of 72-96 months, there were no significant difference noted because the mean serum IGF-I level of children with FSSwere130.47+/-0.27ng/ml(63.24-198.2ng/ml)inmale,162.35+/-9.43ng/ml(54.9-217.53 ng/ml) in female. CONCLUSIONS:The results of this study showed that the serum peak growth hormone level after insulin, L-dopa provocation test with children of CDGP revealed no significant difference with those of FSS children in both sex. Serum IGF-I level of CDGP children was lower significantly to those of FSS children by chronologic age group, but no much difference with FSS children of bone age group.
Adolescent ; Child* ; Female ; Growth Hormone* ; Humans ; Insulin* ; Insulin-Like Growth Factor I ; Levodopa* ; Male ; Puberty*