Schwannomas are soft tissue sarcomas arising from neurilemma of Schwann cells in peripheral nerves, and is the most frequent type of benign tumor found in these nerves. We report a case of a Schwannoma of the ulnar nerve in the elbow joint, and along this report, give a review of the literature. A 46-year-old male patient was hospitalized with complaints of swelling and pain in the left elbow and a tingling sensation and hypoesthesia of the fourth and fifth fingers. Physical examination of the patient showed he was positive for Tinel's sign, and magnetic resonance imaging results demonstrated the presence of a Schwannoma. Subsequent biopsy and excision of the Schwannoma was carried out. The suspected mass, which had a clear margin separating it from the healthy nerve of the medial left elbow, was removed along with its 2 x 2 x 3 cm capsule after a histological diagnosis of a Schwannoma was made. Pathophysiological results confirmed the excised mass as a Schwannoma. Schwannoma of the ulnar nerve within the elbow joint is rare and differential diagnosis is difficult. Therefore, treatment can only proceed after the presence of Schwannoma has been confirmed by physical and radiological examinations.
Biopsy ; Diagnosis ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Elbow Joint ; Elbow* ; Fingers ; Humans ; Hypesthesia ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Neurilemma ; Neurilemmoma* ; Peripheral Nerves ; Physical Examination ; Sarcoma ; Schwann Cells ; Sensation ; Ulnar Nerve*

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Adult* ; Humans ; Molecular Epidemiology* ; Oxalobacter formigenes* ; Seoul*

Incipient changes of the periodontal tissue in the pressure zones of rat molar subjected to the experimental force were studied by the transmission electron microscope. Experimental animals were consisted in 3 control and 21 experimental rats, of which one maxillary first molar was moved buccally with a fixed appliance which were exerting the force of 15 gm. After experimental period of 1 hour, 3 hours, 6 hours, 24 hours, 2 days, 3 days and 7 days, the animal were sacrificed with cardiac perfusion of 2.5% glutaraldehyde in the sodium cacodylate buffer and the experimental teeth with surrounding periodontal structures were processed for electron microscope. At the beginning of the tooth movement, periodontal ligaments of the pressure were compressed and collagenous fibers were arranged parallel to the root of the teeth and cell free zones in company with cell necrosis were followed. Cell free zones at the periodontal ligaments appreared in the 3 hour survival group, and getting severe with time lapse it became widespread in 2-3 day survival group and undermining bone resorption as a healing process was observed in 7 day survival group. Dilatation of mitochondria and swelling of the rER in the fibroblast and other connective tissue cells in the periodontal ligament were observed in the 3 hour survival group, which were characteristics of the incipient changes in the compressed periodontal ligament. Dilatation of nuclear membrane and pyknosis were followed by the destruction of the nucleus and cell membrane. There were no evidence in cell damage or necrosis of the alveolar bone adjacent to the hyalinized area of periodontal ligaments.
Animals ; Bone Resorption ; Cacodylic Acid ; Cell Membrane ; Collagen ; Connective Tissue Cells ; Dilatation ; Fibroblasts ; Glutaral ; Hyalin ; Mitochondria ; Molar* ; Necrosis ; Nuclear Envelope ; Perfusion ; Periodontal Ligament ; Periodontium* ; Rats* ; Sodium ; Tooth Movement* ; Tooth*

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PURPOSE: This study was to develop Web-based multimedia content for Physical Examination and Health Assesment. METHOD: The multimedia content was developed based on Jung's teaching and learning structure plan model, using the following 5 processes : 1) Analysis Stage, 2) Planning Stage, 3) Storyboard Framing and Production Stage, 4) Program Operation Stage, and 5) Final Evaluation Stage. RESULTS: The web based multimedia content consisted of an intro movie, main page and sub pages. On the main page, there were 6 menu bars that consisted of Announcement center, Information of professors, Lecture guide, Cyber lecture, Q&A, and Data centers, and a site map which introduced 15 week lectures. In the operation of web based multimedia content, HTML, JavaScript, Flash, and multimedia technology(Audio and Video) were utilized and the content consisted of text content, interactive content, animation, and audio & video. Consultation with the experts in context, computer engineering, and educational technology was utilized in the development of these processes. CONCLUSIONS: Web-based multimedia content is expected to offer individualized and tailored learning opportunities to maximize and facilitate the effectiveness of the teaching and learning process. Therefore, multimedia content should be utilized concurrently with the lecture in the Physical Examination and Health Assesment classes as a vital teaching aid to make up for the weakness of the face-to- face teaching-learning method.
*Computer-Assisted Instruction ; *Education, Nursing ; *Health Status ; Humans ; *Internet ; *Multimedia ; *Nursing Assessment ; *Physical Examination

PURPOSE: This study was to test the effectiveness of Web-based multimedia contents for Physical Examination and Health Assessment on learning achievement. METHOD: Multimedia contents based on Jung's teaching and learning structure model were used to enhance learning achievement. Learning achievement was measured by the knowledge of Physical Examination and Health Assessment. The participants of this study were students in a BSN and RN-BSN program in a university located in Seoul. 59 students in the experimental group received lectures using web-based multimedia contents and 75 students in the control group received regular lectures. RESULTS: The mean score of the degree of educational achievement in the experimental group(mean=31.09) was significantly higher than in the control group(mean=25.55)(t=-3.883, p=.000). CONCLUSION: These web-based multimedia contents were found to maximizethe effectiveness of the teaching process when used as a teaching aid, and yet kept the strength of a face to face teaching learning method. This program is recommended as part of a main text, vital teaching aid or cyber lecture materials in nursing schools and in health care educational institutions.
Physical Examination/*nursing ; *Nursing Assessment ; *Multimedia ; Korea ; *Internet ; Humans ; Health Status ; *Education, Nursing ; *Computer-Assisted Instruction ; Adult

PURPOSE: Oxalobacter formigenes is an intestinal flora degrading oxalate in the gut. However, microbiological detection of this organism is quite difficult. We tried to develop a simple, rapid and cost-effective PCR method for detecting Oxalobacter formigenes from fecal specimens and to determine whether O. formigenes could be detected from frozen fecal specimens as well as fresh stool. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Whole bacterial DNA was isolated directly from fresh and frozen stool samples obtained from 30 healthy volunteers known to be free from urolithiasis and from fresh stool samples obtained from 38 patients with urolithiasis. Genus specific oligonucleotide sequences corresponding to homologous regions residing in the oxc gene that encodes for oxalyl-coenzyme A decarboxylase were designed. A PCR-based assay was done in both fresh and frozen stool samples and the nucleotide sequences were analyzed to determine the details of oxc. RESULTS: PCR product of 416-bp molecular size encoding oxc gene was detected in 23 (77%) of 30 healthy volunteers and in 14 (37%) of 38 patients with urolithiasis. In healthy volunteers, the results of PCR for the fresh and the frozen stool proved identical in each subject. The nucleotide sequence analysis revealed that the sequence of the amplified product was compatible with that of oxc gene. CONCLUSIONS: O. formigenes could be identified easily and efficiently by this PCR-based detection system. Furthermore, as the PCR-based assay results in the frozen fecal samples were identical as that of fresh stool, immediate processing of the fecal samples may not be necessary to detect O. formigenes in the clinical setting.
Base Sequence ; DNA, Bacterial ; Healthy Volunteers ; Humans ; Oxalobacter formigenes* ; Polymerase Chain Reaction* ; Urolithiasis

BACKGROUND: Telemedicine can be useful in dermatology in which there is a physical barrier between the dermatologist and patient or primary care giver. OBJECTIVE: Our purpose of this study is to examine a usefulness of teledermatology system in Korean situation. METHODS: We made store-and forward teledermatology system on world wide web for it's usefulness. We examined the difference of diagnostic accuracy, level of certainty, and quality of images of photographs and still digital images. RESULTS: The merits of our teledermatology system are summarized as follows1. It has more diagnostic accuracy than classic store-and forward system. 2. The real-time additional history taking and request of laboratory examinations are possible by chatting system between dermatologist and primary care giver. 3. Patient follow-up is easier than store-and forward system. The difference of diagnostic accuracy, level of certainty, and quality of images of photographs and still digital images are summarized as follows. 1. There is no difference of diagnostic accuracy between photographic readers and digital image readers. 2. There is no difference of level of certainty between photographic readers and digital image readers. 3. In assesment of quality of photographs, no difference was founded between photographic readers and digital image readers 4. The satisfaction of quality of photographs is very high in all groups. The average is 97.5%. CONCLUSION: This study provides evidence that our teledermatology system is useful in korean situation and still digital image can substitute historic photographs in teledermatology.
Dermatology* ; Equidae ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Internet ; Primary Health Care ; Telemedicine*

Vibrio vulnificus, which causes serious septicemia, has been isolated from the Southern Sea of Korea. Five strains were identified by Farmer's biochemical test and API 20E kit. V. vulnificus ATCC 27562 was used as the reference strain and V. parahaemolyticus was used as the comparative strain. Three of the five strains could grow at 37% and the others only at 30 degrees C. The proteins pattern of cell lysates from the isolates were analyzed by SDS-PAGE and densitometery. Distinct protein band pattern was observed with the reference strain and the isolates in comparison with V. parahaemolyticus. Antiserum made against V. vulnificus ATCC 27562, was used for ELISA and Western blotting analysis to test the isolates. In ELISA analysis, the three strains being able to grow at 37 degrees C showed significantly higher reactivity to the antiserum than that of V. parahaemolyticus, while the other two grown only at 30 degrees C showed no significant difference. By Western blotting analysis, distinctive 30 and 36 kDa bands were observed only in the reference strain and the isolates. Twenty six and 54 kDa bands were observed with only three of the five strains being able to grow at 37 degrees C. The SDS-PAGE profiles of the outer membrane proteins of the isolates shared common features with the reference strain but distinctive from V. parahaemolyticus.
Blotting, Western ; Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel ; Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay ; Korea* ; Membrane Proteins ; Sepsis ; Vibrio vulnificus* ; Vibrio*

BACKGROUND: Electronic bulletin board systems have been used for education, information exchange, and medical consultation for a number of years. However, most of these systems have been text-based. The field of dermatology has never had a system that allowed a quick exchange of visual information. OBJECTIVE: Dermatology is a field of medicine which especially requires a visual image for an accurate diagnosis, and subsequent effective treatment. We have developed a web-based bulletin board system which can be used by any clinician with access to the internet to view clinical images of skin diseases with accompanying clinical findings. METHODS: A web-based bulletin board system was developed for the internet. The system is designed to operate independently of client hardware and software using hyper text markup language so participants using different platforms can access and use the site effectively. RESULTS: Any participant can easily upload a diagnostic image to the board along with relevant clinical information. Other participants can make comments regarding the presented case which may prove useful to the presenter in diagnosis and development of an effective treatment modality. CONCLUSION: Our web-based bulletin board system for discussion of skin diseases has the potential to help in the diagnosis and treatment of various skin diseases. Dissemination of information relating to clinical cases and participation of a widespread audience of experienced clinicians will allow better practice of dermatology and aid in further training of inexperienced clinicians.
Dermatology ; Diagnosis ; Education ; Internet ; Skin Diseases* ; Skin*