Angiomyolipoma(AML) of the liver is a rare benign tumor; about 60 cases, almost solitary, have been reported. We present here a extremely rare case of multiple AML in the liver diagnosed by fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC). Two large masses were found in a 51 year-old woman complaining of abdominal discomfort by computed tomography and several smaller masses are scattered in the liver. FNAC was performed, showing bundles of spindle shaped smooth muscle cells intermingled with mature fat cells. FNAC may be a valuable method for definitive diagnosis of hepatic AML. The diagnosis was further confirmed by histologic examination with immunohistochemical studies.
Adipocytes ; Angiomyolipoma* ; Biopsy, Fine-Needle* ; Diagnosis* ; Female ; Humans ; Immunohistochemistry ; Liver* ; Middle Aged ; Myocytes, Smooth Muscle

Menetrier's disease is a protein losing hypertrophic gastropathy characterized by hypoproteinemia, and often is associated with the development of gastric cancer. Though the cause of Menetrier's disease has been unknown, the association with Helicobacter pylori was reported. A 30-year-old man was hospitalized for the evaluation of progressive dyspepsia for 2 years, hypoproteinemia, and recently aggravated epigastric pain with weight loss. Gastroscopy revealed prominent folds and multiple variable sized polypoid eminence in the body and antrum with positive CLO test. Histological findings revealed gastritis with erosions and foveolar hyperplasia. Any other diseases causing protein losing enteropathy were excluded. After the eradication of the H. pylori and long term treatment with proton pump inhibitor, clinical, endoscopic, and biochemical resolution ensued. Thus, we suggest that H. pylori eradication should be tried in patients with Menetrier's disease before invase treatment modalities such as surgical resection.
Adult ; Dyspepsia ; Gastritis ; Gastritis, Hypertrophic* ; Gastroscopy ; Helicobacter pylori* ; Helicobacter* ; Humans ; Hyperplasia ; Hypoproteinemia ; Protein-Losing Enteropathies ; Proton Pumps* ; Protons* ; Stomach Neoplasms ; Weight Loss

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and validity of the wound dressing using heterogenic type I collagen dressing (Collaheal(R)). METHODS: From January 2010 to April 2010, 46 burn patients with deep second degree or third degree burn wound were treated with Collaheal(R). And we followed up the patients to assess the treatment result with Vancouver scar scale after 6 months. RESULTS: Of the 46 patients, 42 patients had deep second degree burn only and 4 patients had deep second degree burn with third degree burn. It took 18.5 days to re-epithelialize for patients with deep second degree burn and 40.5 days for third degree burn wound. After 6 months, follow-up was performed to assess the wound result. We can observe that 24 patients had mild scar and 5 patients had moderate scar and 2 patients had severe scar. The severity of scar increased as the re-epithelialization period increased. CONCLUSION: It took 18.5 days to re-epithelialize the deep second degree burn wound with collagen dressing. And the long term result was good. Type I collagen dressing can be used for treatment option for the patients with deep second degree burn wound and the patients with small third degree burn wound who cannot be operated.
Bandages ; Burns ; Cicatrix ; Collagen ; Collagen Type I ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Re-Epithelialization

PURPOSE: Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital Burn Center has operated the Nutritional Support Team (as known as NST) since 2003. From our experiences of active participation of NST, our authors believed the serum prealbumin level of Nutritional Assessment Index can be a useful testing index for assessing burn patients clinical condition. Therefore, we would like to verify the correlation of the prealbumin level with the patients prognosis. METHODS: The subjects are limited to those who has made at least a single visit to NST during their hospital stay from January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2008 at Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital Burn Center. The total number of NST patients were 129 patients in 2005, 124 patients in 2006, 131 patients in 2007, and 127 patients in 2008. It includes those patients who deceased due to the burn shock within a few days of first admission. Basically it includes any patients regardless of chance of survival rate who has seen the NST at least once during the study period. We obtained the lowest serum prealbumin level of NST patients from 2005 to 2008 and made comparison analysis within the subjects. RESULTS: The mortality rate of NST patients decreased in the study period from 2005 to 2008 as time passed by (47%-37%-24%-22%). However, the lowest serum prealbumin level of mean value was increased notably. The mean values of lowest prealbumin level were 6.07 in 2005, 6.73 in 2006, 9.53 in 2007 and 7.31 in 2008. The mean total body surface burned areas were 50.3% in 2005, 44.6% in 2006, 43.1% in 2007 and 47.2% in 2008. The lowest prealbumin level in the survived group is 2 to 3 gm/dl higher than the deceased group. The lowest prealbumin level in deceased group was shown mostly below 7 mg/dl and mortality rate was extremely increased to 35% to the group below 5 mg/dl. CONCLUSION: Our study suggests it is necessary to pay special attention if prealbumin level drops below 7 mg/dl in massive burn patients. If the level drops below 5 mg/dl or 6 mg/dl, it can be considered as nutritional condition of the patient is poor and need to make extra observations on several criteria such as nutritional supply, high in catabolism and progression of septicemia to assess proper needed care for burn patients.
Burn Units ; Burns ; Heart ; Humans ; Length of Stay ; Nutrition Assessment ; Nutritional Support ; Prealbumin ; Prognosis ; Sepsis ; Shock ; Survival Rate

PURPOSE: Massive pediatric burns are subject to progress to wound infection and sepsis at early stage. Early escharectomy and allograft made it safer to treat the pediatric burn patients from this morbidity. The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of the early escharectomy and temporary wound coverage with allograft on massive pediatric burns. METHODS: From January 1999 to August 2010, 55 pediatric burn patients aged 1 to 10 years whose total burn surface area was over 20% were reviewed. Among them, only 19 patients underwent escharectomy (Pediatric escharectomy group, PEG) and 36 patients underwent escharectomy and allograft (Pediatric allograft group, PAG) And 533 allograft patients (Allograft group, AG) aged over 10 whose total burn surface area were over 20% were reviewed to compare with the pediatric allograft patients. RESULTS: PAG was operated earlier (mean 3.6 days from injury) than PEG (mean 5.9 days). The mortality of PAG (8.3%) was lower than the mortality of PEG (31.6%) significantly. And the PAG were operated earlier than AG (mean 5.8 days from injury). But the difference of mortality was not significant statistically between PAG and AG. CONCLUSION: Early escharectomy and allograft is safe and effective treatment procedure for massive pediatric burn patients by preventing wound sepsis.
Aged ; Burns ; Humans ; Sepsis ; Transplantation, Homologous ; Wound Infection