No abstract available.
Ribs* ; Transplants*

No abstract available.
Enophthalmos* ; Transplants*

BACKGROUND: The main therapeutic method currently used for the treatment of vitiligo vulgaris is either photochemotherapy or corticosteroids. But both of the procedures however require lengthy treatment to obtain a satisfactory result. OBJECTIVE: To determine the increased efficacy of the combination therapy of photochemotherapy with corticosteroid and chlorpromazine compared with the usual monotherapy. METHODS: The combination therapy was done in 29 cases and the results were compared with the results of either monotherapy appearing in the literatures. RESULTS: f the 29 patients, 14(48.3%) patients achieved 100% repigmentation, 7(24.1%) patients 75~50%, 5(17.2%) patients 25~50%, and 3(10.4%) patients less than 25%. For the cured patients, 190.3 days and 32.7 times of photochemotherapy were used. CONCLUSION: The combination therapy is more effective, and the duration of treatment can be greatly reduced compared with either monotherapy.
Adrenal Cortex Hormones ; Chlorpromazine ; Humans ; Methods ; Photochemotherapy ; Vitiligo*

No abstract available.
Lipectomy*

Attempt to treat degenerative arthritis of the knee by surgical means have been limited. Patellectomy or patelloplasty may be done in the presence of symptomatic patellofemoral arthritis; and joint debridement, including removal of loose bodies, large osteophytes, and damaged menisci, is occasionally used. Most patients with degenerative arthritis of the knee bear more of their weight on one tibial condyle than on the other. As the articular cartilage degenerates over the tibial condyle that bears the most weight, the natural varus or valgus deviation increases and a vicious cycle is set up in which increasing deformity creates increasing degenerative change. If weight-bearing and other stresses could be increased on this more normal area and decreased on the involved portion, it would been that pain might be relieved and the useful life-span of the knee joint considerably prolonged. The tibia in degenerative arthritis of the knee has become the preferred site for the osteotomy because of restriction of knee motion. The osteotomy is increasingly performed proximal, rather than distal, to the attachment of the patellar tendon at the tibial tuberosity because healing occurs faster in the cancellous bone of the metaphysis as compared with the cortical bone of the diaphysis, and particularly as the quadriceps extensor mechanism stabilizes the osteotomy. We have had 4 cases of modified high tibial osteotomy in the degenerative arthritis patients by division of proximal tibio-fibular ligament instead of removal of fibular head. And the follow-up resutts are “good” in all cases without any complication.
Arthritis ; Cartilage, Articular ; Child ; Clinical Study ; Congenital Abnormalities ; Debridement ; Diaphyses ; Femur Neck ; Follow-Up Studies ; Head ; Humans ; Joints ; Knee ; Knee Joint ; Ligaments ; Osteoarthritis ; Osteophyte ; Osteotomy ; Patellar Ligament ; Tibia ; Weight-Bearing

No abstract available.
Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay* ; Herpes Simplex* ; Immunoglobulin G* ; Immunoglobulin M*

No abstract available.
Child* ; Glomerulonephritis, Membranoproliferative* ; Humans

No abstract available.
Humans ; Oligochaeta* ; Prospective Studies*

Partial trisomy 10q syndrome is a rare chromosome anomaly characterized by severe mental and growth retardation, craniofacial dysmorphia with prominent forehead, fine arched eyebrows, deep set small eyes and micrognathia, In addition, other physical manifestations have been reported as skeletal anomaly, congenital heart disease, inguinal hernia, and so on. We report a case of partial trisomy 10q syndrorne with certain stigmata which confirmed by chromosome analysis.
Christianity ; Eyebrows ; Forehead ; Heart Defects, Congenital ; Hernia, Inguinal ; Trisomy*

A hospital-based, matched case-control study was carried out to evaluate the relation ship of various suspected risk factors including snoring and serum level of cholesterol to cerebrovascular disease in Korea. A total of 127 incident cases of cerebrovascular disease(74 cases of cerebral infarction and 53 cases of intracerebral hemorrhage) admitted to the department of neurology in a university hospital from December, 1993 to March, 1995 were compared with 127 matched controls admitted to same hospital in same period. A multivariate analysis suggested that ECG abnormality(left ventricular hypertophy and atrial fibrillation), family history of cerebrovascular disease, fundoscopic abnormality, previous history of transient ischemic attack and hypercholesterolemia were risk factors of cerebrovascular disease. ECG abnormality, fundoscopic abnormality, smoking and hypercholesterolemia were also suggested as risk factors of cerebral infarction.
Case-Control Studies* ; Cerebral Infarction ; Cholesterol ; Electrocardiography ; Humans ; Hypercholesterolemia ; Ischemic Attack, Transient ; Korea ; Multivariate Analysis ; Neurology ; Risk Factors* ; Ships ; Smoke ; Smoking ; Snoring