No abstract available.
Alcoholism* ; Hospitals, General* ; Humans ; Prevalence*

Pagets disease has been well known disease in western countries, but it is extremely rare in orient and no case has been reported in Korea yet. It is a chronic osseous disease affecting middle and late life, characterized by progressive skeletal deformities which consist of excessive resorption and abnormal regeneration. We experienced a case of Paget's disease in a 57-year old man with involvement of pelvis, femur and skull, and confirmed with open biopsy.
Biopsy ; Congenital Abnormalities ; Femur ; Korea ; Pelvis ; Regeneration ; Skull

No abstract available.
Blood Pressure* ; Body Mass Index*

: In order to observe the antigenic fractions in saline extract of adult Paragonimus westermani, proteins in the crude extract were separated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) in reducing conditions. The separated protein fractions were transferred to nitrocellulose paper on which 20 sera from human paragonimiasis were reacted and immunoblotted. Out of 15 stained protein bands in SDS-PAGE, 7 reacted with the sera. Of 14 reacted bands, 30 kilodalton(kDa) band was the most frequently reacted (95%) and was a strong antigen. Protein bands of 23 and 46 kDa were also strong antigens. Bands of over 150 kDa, 120 kDa, 92 kDa, 86 kDa, 74 kDa, 62 kDa, 51 kDa, 32 kDa, 28 kDa, 16.5 kDa and 15.5 kDa were also reactive but their frequencies of the reaction were variable.
parasitology-helminth-trematoda ; Paragonimus westermani ; immunology ; antigen ; electrophoresis

No abstract available.
Acidosis, Lactic*

Total anomalous pulmonary venous return(connection) is a congenital heart disease. Especially, the reports of the patients with double connections of all pulmonary veins were rare. An infant who underwent operation for total anomalous pulmonary venous return had double drainge of all pulmonary veins to both left vertical vein and anomalous descending vein. This second lesion was not diagnosed preoperatively, but in operative field. Operative treatments were performed by ligation of left vertical vein and central pulmonary vein-to-left atrium anastomosis without ligation of the descending anomalous vein. For these less common variants fo total anomalous pulmonary venous return,a more detailed and precise understanding of morphology can facilitate accurate surgical repair. And also, early detection of the disease is an another issue for a good prognosis.
Heart Defects, Congenital ; Humans ; Infant ; Ligation ; Prognosis ; Pulmonary Veins ; Scimitar Syndrome* ; Veins

Cardiac lymphangioma is one of the rarest, primary, benign tumor of the heart. We report a case of cardiac lymphangioma, which was diagnosed with CT and MRI in a 50 years old female. Plain chest film showed minimal enlargement and globular shape of the heart. On CT scan, abnormal fluid density mass lesion was noted within pericardial sac. The signal intensity was lower on T1-weighted image and hgher on T2-weighted image than that of the myocardium and located along the left atrioventricuar groove. Several small low signal spots representing hemorrhage were seen within this lesion.
Female ; Heart ; Hemorrhage ; Humans ; Lymphangioma* ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Myocardium ; Thorax ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed

No abstract available.
Pneumonia*

Two cases of old unreduced radial head dislocation in children were experienced in this hospital. These were the results of neglected Monteggia fracture. Dislocated radial heads were reduced under direct vision and the anular ligaments were reconstructed. Follow up study taken 9 months and 6 years respectively after operation revealed excellent elbow motion including pronation and supination. The radial nerve palsy which had been developed in one of the two patients after injury was recovered spontaneously after reduction of the radial head without opening of the Arcade of Frohse. Then we are reporting these cases with a review of the literature.
Child ; Dislocations ; Elbow ; Follow-Up Studies ; Head ; Humans ; Ligaments ; Monteggia's Fracture ; Paralysis ; Pronation ; Radial Nerve ; Supination

Development of acetabulum and epiphysis of the femoral head following reduction in seventy-four patients with ninty-one congenitally dislocated hips were assessed radiologically. Acetabular index, CE angle of Wiberg, neck-shaft angle of the femur and overgrowth of the pelvis and femur were measured according to the various treatment. To evaluate results, the method of treatment was divided into four groups; closed reduction, open reduction, open reduction combined with pelvic osteotomy and modified Klisic operation (open reduction, pelvic osteotomy, femoral osteotomy and so on). Each treatment was compared with three subgroups according to ages; first subgroup was belong to patients under one year of age, second from one year to three years, third over three years. This paper agrees to Harris (1976) and Lindstrom (1979) about improvement of acetabular index and CE angle of Wiberg that showed a rapid rate of repair in the first 6 months and thereafter slowly progressed to normal range of degree. Overgrowth of pelvis and femur was also noticed in cases of hips treated pelvic and/or femoral osteotomy, moreover even in cases of open reduction only. The goal of this preliminary investigation may be supposed to propose the idea which method of treatment to the first visiting patient will approach the most satisfactory final result.
Acetabulum ; Dislocations ; Epiphyses ; Femur ; Head ; Hip ; Humans ; Methods ; Osteotomy ; Pelvis ; Reference Values