No abstract available.
Ribs* ; Transplants*

No abstract available.
Enophthalmos* ; Transplants*

No abstract available.
Lipectomy*

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*

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*

To ease the convinience of indentification of common dermatophytes in Korea and to check the possibility of diseovering new species not yet reported in Korea, several species of dermatophytes were cultured on potato dextrose agar(PDA) at the room temperature. They were 46 strains isolated from Korea and 6 domestic strains from a foreign country. Gross and microscopic findings of their colonies were examined. The colonial morphology and microscopic appearance were compared with those of the same strains on Sabouraud dextrose agar(SDA) and corn meal agar(CMA). The results were as follows Typical T. rubrum and its varisnts showed characteristic wine red pigmentation which was rapid, diffuse and uniform, typically arrsnged microconidia were better on PDA. T. mentagrophytes showed yellow-brown pigmentation which were more rapid and darker in the center with gradual fading to the periphery. The mscroconidia, grape-like clusters of microconidia and spiral hyphae were seen better on SDA. T. tonsurans showed characteristic mahogsny colored pigmentation, ballooned microconidia and macroconidia which were seen better on PDA, but diffusible pigmentation of agar were present on SDA only. The gross morphology of T. verracosum were similar on PDA and SDA, but macroconidia were seen better on PDA and CMA, and tortuous hyphae with antler-like branching were seen better on SDA. T. rnegninii showed green-brown pigmentation which appeared rapidty and prominently on PDA. T. rubrum-like microconidia were seen better on PDA and CMA, but in SDA only hyphae were seen. The gross morpholgy of M. canis was similar on PDA and SDA, but spindle shaped macroconidia were seen more typically on PDA. The gross morphology and microscopic appearance of M. gypseum were very similar in all three media. M. ferruginenm showed characteristic rust colored pigmentation and bamboo hyphae which were seen more typically on PDA. The gross morphalogy of E floceosum were similar on PDA and SDA, but cluster formation of club shaped macroconidia were seen more prominently on PDA and CMA. These findings suggest that PDA is a mare convincing media t6Cifferentiate among dermatophytes belonging to genus Trichopkyton.
Agar* ; Arthrodermataceae* ; Glucose ; Hyphae ; Korea ; Meals ; Pigmentation ; Solanum tuberosum* ; Wine ; Zea mays

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

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*

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