A case of bilateral absence of vas deference with sterility is reported. By new 15O cases of congenital absence of the vas deference, rather a rare congenital anomaly, were reported.
Infertility

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Child* ; Humans

This study was conducted to compare the date on knowledge, attitude and motivation toward blood donation between donors and non-donors. The study population included 622 donors and 322 non-donors who visited the mobile blood donation car of Taegu Red Cross Blood Center and participated the group appointed blood donation campaign managed by the center from March 1 to March 31, 1989. The donors and non-donors were questioned above mentioned items with a formulated questionnaire. Among the general characteristics of the subjects in the study, male predominance (84.1% in donors and 73.6% in non-donors) in young age group (16-24 years) was the outstanding feature. As a medium of information about blood donation, “television” was playing a dominant role (donors; 75.2%, non-donors; 78.9%), while “magazine” played more important roles among donors. Of the donors, 70.6% and of the non-donors, 58.1 replied that they had ever been induced to donate blood (p<0.01). Major inducers were friend and personnel of mobile blood donation vehicle. On the measuring of knowledge level, the average rates of correct answer was higher in donors (62.6%) than in non-donors (54.1%) (p<0.01). Higher the education level was presented, higher the knowledge level (p<0.05). There have been noticeable difference between donors and non-donors in blood replying the questionnaire set to measure their attitude toward blood donation, especially in the items such as “impression toward blood”, “selection of transfusion blood source” and “view on the situation of blood shortage.” The major motivation toward blood donation of the groups were “possible future need” and “altruism or humanitarian interest”. The major reasons for not donation blood in both groups were “fear of the needle” and “dread to visit to mobile car or center”.
Blood Donors* ; Daegu ; Education ; Friends ; Humans ; Male ; Motivation* ; Red Cross ; Tissue Donors

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Burkitt Lymphoma* ; Child* ; Humans

rcinoma (SCC) is the second most common skin cancer. In particular, invasive SCC has a high risk of metastasis and sometimes, this can be fatal. At present, the treatment of choice for invasive SCC is complete excision with a proper surgical margin, but most cases of SCC develop on cosmetically-sensitive areas, so sometimes significant scarring or deformities can lead to an unhappy result. An 80 year-old female presented with a 4x1.5cm sized SCC on her lower lip. Although surgery was the first line therapy for this invasive SCC, a cosmetically poor outcome was expected. Thus the patient did not want to undergo a surgical operation, so we had to explore other treatment options. Recently there have been many reports that show imiquimod 5% cream is effective in the treatment of invasive SCC. Therefore we started topical therapy with imiquimod 5% cream five times a week. After 6 months, the lesion size was reduced to 2x1.5cm and we could remove the remnant tumor by wedge resection with cosmetically acceptable result. We suggest this neo-adjuvant immunotherapy can be an alternative for the treatment of cosmetically-critical SCC and present this case as a good example that has shown successful size-reductive neoadjuvant immunotherapy using imiquimod in invasive SCC.
Aged, 80 and over ; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell* ; Cicatrix ; Congenital Abnormalities ; Female ; Humans ; Immunotherapy* ; Lip* ; Neoadjuvant Therapy ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Skin Neoplasms

BACKGROUND: Mycosis fungoides (MF) is the most frequent form of cutaneous lymphoma. Early stage MF is known to be responsible to the various topical and systemic therapies. However, there have been few clinical reviews of the treatment modalities of the early stoge MF in Korea. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to investigate the therapeutic response of early MF to different treatment modalities. METHODS: The medical records, clinical photographs, and biopsied tissues, of fifty three cases of early MF were reviewed. RESULTS: The mean age at diagnosis of early MF was 43.0 years old (varied between 9 and 81 years old). Twenty three (43.4%) were male and thirty (56.6%) were female. Topical carmustine (bis-chloroethyl-nitrosourea, BCNU) was the most commonly used treatment modality in the early MF (34.0%). Patients treated by BCNU in stage IA (<10% skin involved) showed a response rate of 85.7%. Early MF recorred in only one patient after 93 months. However BCNU was not effective for the patients in stage IB (> or =10% skin involved). Even Psoralen plus UVA (PUVA) therapy, which was most efficient in stage IB, revealed a high relapse rate after one year. CONCLUSION: BCNU has been most commonly used for the treatment of early MF during the past 10 years in the authors' hospital. It showed a comparatively high response rate, and the relapse rate of BCNU was lower than for other therapies in stage IA. However many treatments became ineffective when MF progressed to stage IB. Therefore the authors confirm that early diagnosis and proper therapy are most important for the treatment of early MF.
Carmustine ; Diagnosis ; Early Diagnosis ; Female ; Ficusin ; Humans ; Korea ; Lymphoma ; Male ; Medical Records ; Mycosis Fungoides* ; Recurrence ; Skin

Retroperitoneal teratoma is a rare tumor composed of tissues from all three germ cell layers - endoderm, mesoderm, ectoderm. It is generally known as a disease of baby or children and as 10% of retroperitoneal tumor. Recently, we experienced a case of retroperitoneal teratoma in adult.
Adult ; Child ; Ectoderm ; Endoderm ; Germ Cells ; Humans ; Mesoderm ; Teratoma*

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Endometriosis is the aberrant presence of endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity. We report a case of cutaneous endometriosis which developed on the scar of a uterine myomectomy in a 35-year-old female. The patient presented with a bean-sized, oval-shaped, erythematous nodule, which was located where a drain tube had been inserted. During her first visit to our clinic, she felt slight pain upon light touch to the lesion. She was not menstruating at this time. The lesion had been getting bigger and she reported that the pain was aggravated during menstruation. Diagnosis was confirmed by histopathologic examination, which showed multiple endometrial glands with decidualized stroma, and hemosiderin pigment. Many dermatologists are not familiar with cutaneous endometriosis. Therefore, we present this case as a good example which shows pathognomonic symptoms and characteristic histopathologic findings of cutaneous endometriosis.
Adult ; Cicatrix ; Diagnosis ; Endometriosis* ; Female ; Hemosiderin ; Humans ; Menstruation ; Uterine Myomectomy