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Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic* ; Pregnancy*

We report a case of rhinocerebral mucormycosis in a 63-year-old female with a 1-year history of poorly controlled diabetes mellitus. She had black necrotic ulcers on the hard palate, bloody nasal discharge, swelling of the left side of her face, left blepharoptosis, proptosis, and conjunctival injection. Histopathological examination of the palatal lesion showed large, nonseptate, right-angled branching fungal hyphae in the dermis, and Rhizopus species was isolated on Sabouraud's agar media. The patient was treated with a combination of amphotericin B and surgical debridements but died of asphyxia one month after admission. This is a relatively uncommon, opportunistic infection occurring in a diabetic woman, and only several cases are reported in the Korean literature up to date.
Agar ; Amphotericin B ; Asphyxia ; Blepharoptosis ; Debridement ; Dermis ; Diabetes Mellitus ; Exophthalmos ; Female ; Humans ; Hyphae ; Middle Aged ; Mucormycosis* ; Opportunistic Infections ; Palate, Hard ; Rhizopus ; Ulcer

BACKGROUND: Differential diagnosis of lichen sclerosus et atrophicus( SA) and scleroderma is occasionally difficult. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to attempt differentiation between the two diseases using imrnunohistochemical stain and lectins. MEHTODS: Paraffin-embeddred sections of 4 cases of LSA and 11 cases of scleroderma were evaluated for this study. Using lectins, such as peanut agglutinin(PNA), siybean agglutinin(SBA), Ulex europaeus agglutinin-I(UEA-I) and Dolichos biflorus agglutinin(DBA) and the avidin-biotin-peroxi-dase complex(ABC) technique, differential lectin binding patterns betv een the two diseases were examined. RESULTS: In the case of LSA, PNA and SBA stained the upper and lower spinous layer of the epidermis, and UEA I also stained the spinous layer of the epidermis weakly, but no DBA was stained. In the case of scleroderma, PNA stained not only the spinous layer but also the basal layer, SBA stained the upper half of the spinous layer but not the lower half of the pinous layer of epidermis. But UEA-I stained the vascular endothelial cells of dermis instead of epidermis, and DBA stained only the basal layer of epidermis. CONCLUSION: Staining of these 4 lectins on paraffin-embedded sectians using ABC teehnique could be helpful in differenting LSA and scleroderma.
Dermis ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Dolichos ; Endothelial Cells ; Epidermis ; Lectins* ; Lichen Sclerosus et Atrophicus* ; Lichens* ; Ulex

The Sertoli-Leydig cell tumors are rare ovarian neoplasm representing only 0.1-0.5% of all primary ovarian neoplasms and are composed of sex-cord and stromal elements, that differentiated in a male direction. They are bilatere,l in less than 2% and confined to the ovaries in over 95% of cases. The majority(about two-thirds) of the reported cases are moderately or poorly differentiated Sertoli-Leydig cell tumors. We experienced one case of Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor combined with derrnoid cyst and reported this case with a review of the litenture.
Dermoid Cyst* ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Ovarian Neoplasms ; Ovary ; Sertoli-Leydig Cell Tumor*

OBJECTIVES: This study was designed to assess the change of heart rate variability (HRV) at resting, upright, and psychological stress in anxiety disorder patients. METHODS: HRV was measured at resting, upright, and psychological stress states in 60 anxiety disorder patients. We used visual analogue scale (VAS) score to assess tension and stress severity. Beck depression inventory (BDI) and state trait anxiety inventories I and II (STAI-I and II) were used to assess depression and anxiety severity. Differences between HRV indices were evaluated using paired t-tests. Gender difference analysis was accomplished with ANCOVA. RESULTS: SDNN (Standard deviation of normal RR intervals) and low frequency/high frequency (LF/HF) were significantly increased, while NN50, pNN50, and normalized HF (nHF) were significantly decreased in the upright position compared to resting state (p < 0.01). SDNN, root mean square of the differences of successive normal to normal intervals, and LF/HF were significantly increased, while nHF was significantly decreased in the psychological stress state compared to resting state (p < 0.01). SDNN, NN50, pNN50 were significantly lower in upright position compared to psychological stress and nVLF, nLF, nHF, and LF/HF showed no significant differences between them. CONCLUSION: The LF/HF ratio was significantly increased after both physical and psychological stress in anxiety disorder, but did not show a significant difference between these two stresses. Significant differences of SDNN, NN50, and pNN50 without any differences of nVLF, nLF, nHF, and LF/HF between two stresses might suggest that frequency domain analysis is more specific than time domain analysis.
Anxiety ; Anxiety Disorders* ; Autonomic Nervous System ; Depression ; Equipment and Supplies ; Heart Rate* ; Humans ; Stress, Psychological*

Cutaneous mycobacterial infection can occur with Mycobacterium tube culosis or other mycobacterial agents. The commonest of the group IV rapidly growing mycobacteia Mycobacterium fortuitum, has widespread distribution in natur, and is an uncommon causative agent of human mycobacterial infection. We report herein a case of Mycobacterium fortuitum infection follcwiiig an antibiotics susceptibility test. This 24-year-old man suffered fram ulcerative itchy nodules on the left forearm where the antibiotics susceptibility test was don. The skin biopsy specimen revealedly. iphohistiocytic granulomatous infiltration in the dermis. Culture of the tissue specimen revealed rapicly growing yellowish colonies, which was isolated to Mycobacoterium fortuitum. Among 3 biovariants of M. fortuitum, our case was revealed to he biovariant fortuiiam: Surgical excision was performed followed by the administration of antiliiiitics, and no sign of relapse was noted until now, 1 year since.
Anti-Bacterial Agents* ; Biopsy ; Dermis ; Forearm ; Humans ; Mycobacterium fortuitum* ; Mycobacterium* ; Recurrence ; Skin ; Ulcer ; Young Adult

We report a case of Mycobacterium(M.) fortuitum infection in a 65-year-old female who presented with erythematous to purplish colored tender nodules and plaques with curst and purulent discharge on both upper and lower extremities along the sites of acupuncture. The culture of surgically excised specimen in 3% Ogawa media yielded slightly yellowish colored colonies within 2 days. Several tests for identification of the species were performed and growth on 5% NaCl, negative niacin test, positive results in nitrate reduction, catalase, urease and iron uptake tests were noted. Excision of the lesions followed by administration of minocycline and ciprofloxacin showed no sign of relapse to data a year after treatment.
Acupuncture* ; Aged ; Catalase ; Ciprofloxacin ; Female ; Humans ; Iron ; Lower Extremity ; Minocycline ; Mycobacterium fortuitum* ; Mycobacterium* ; Niacin ; Recurrence ; Urease

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Colitis, Ulcerative* ; Sweet Syndrome* ; Ulcer*

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Papilloma*