Xanthoma disseminatum (XD) is one of cutaneous nonhistiocytosis X, and characterized by multiple, widely distributed red, brown, yellowish papules and nodules that tend to coalesce. We present a case of XD with characteristic clinical findings and treated with the combination therapy of COz laser vaporization and high dose steroid.
Histiocytosis, Non-Langerhans-Cell* ; Laser Therapy ; Lasers, Gas* ; Volatilization* ; Xanthomatosis*

A statistical survey was made on 737 cases of cutaneous benign tumors that visited the Department of Dermatology at Seoul National University Hospital during a 11-year period from 1973 to 1983. The results were summarized as follows: 1) There were 329 cases of male(44. 6%) and 408 cases of female(55. 4%). The ratio of male to female was 1: l. 24. 2) Most patients with cutaneous benign tumors belonged to age ranged from 10 to 39 with the highest incidence in the 3rd decade. 3) According to Levers classification, 737 cases of cutaneous benign tumors were divided into following 6 groups: tumors and cysts of the epidermis(252 cases, 34, 2 tumors of the epidermal appendages(125 cases, 17.0%), tumors of fibrous tissue(98 cases, 13.3%), tumors of vascular tissue(158 cases, 21.4%), turnors of farty, muscular and osseus tissue(37 cases 5.0%), tumors of neural tissue(67 cases, 9. 1 %). 4) The distribution of the frequently observed cutaneous benign tumors was as fo]lows: epidermal cyst(12. 1%), nevus flammeus(11. 4%), neurofibroma(9, l%), linear epidermal nevus(7. 9%), syringoma(6, 6%), seborrheic keratosis(7. 9%.). nevus sebaceus(6. 0%), dermatofibroma(5. 8%), steatocystoma multiplex(4. 1%,), tuberous sclerosis(2. 8% ), granuloma pyogenicurn(2. 8%).
Classification ; Dermatology ; Female ; Granuloma ; Humans ; Incidence ; Male ; Nevus ; Seoul

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Meconium* ; Peritonitis*

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Female ; Hysterectomy, Vaginal*

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Holoprosencephaly*

Juvenile xanthogranuloma is a congenital or perinatal tumor, 1 to 2 cm in diameter, usually located on the head. The extracutaneous lesions can occur on the eye, the lung, the epicardium, the oral cavity or the testicles. Subcutaneous form of juvenile xanthogranuloma has been reported very rarely in the literature. We report a unique case of a subcutaneous juvenile xanthogranuloma that showed 4 × 4 cm sized plaque and located on the extremity of 9-year-old girl.
Child ; Extremities ; Female ; Head ; Humans ; Lung ; Mouth ; Pericardium ; Testis ; Xanthogranuloma, Juvenile*

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Takayasu Arteritis*

BACKGROUND: Hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) is mainly caused by the infection of coxsackievirus A16. But recently several epidemics of HFMD with meningitis or myocarditis due to enterovirus 71 have been reported in Southeast Asia. It was necessary that the possibility of enterovirus 71 epidemic in Korea should be ruled out. This study was designed for the determination of causative agents of HFMD in Cheju province in the spring of 1998. METHODS: Serum specimens were collected from 45 pediatric patients with HFMD at Cheju Hankook Hospital in March and April,1998. Virus isolation was performed with RD cell culture through up to three passages. Reverse transcription-PCR and nucleotide sequencing were performed by the method of Oberste et al.(J Clin Microbiol 1999;37:1288-93). The serotypes of viral isolates were determined by BLAST program of National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S.A. RESULTS: Virus could be isolates from 4 patients, whose age was ranged from 11 months to 3 years. All of 4 viral isolates showed about 430-bp product of RT-PCR using primers 011 and 012. The serotype showing the highest similarity with the nucleotide sequences of all of these viral isolates was coxsackievirus A16. CONCLUSIONS: The causative enteroviral agent of HFMD in Cheju province in the spring of 1998 was coxsackievirus A16. We could not detect enterovirus 71 from the patients' sera in Cheju Province in the spring of 1998.
Asia, Southeastern ; Base Sequence ; Biotechnology ; Cell Culture Techniques ; Enterovirus ; Humans ; Jeju-do* ; Korea ; Meningitis ; Myocarditis ; Polymerase Chain Reaction

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Urinary Tract Infections* ; Urinary Tract*

We reviewed clinical records and histologic materials of 96 cases of metastatic skin cancer in Seoul National University Hospital from January 1973 to July 1986. The metastatic skin cancers of male were twice as many as that of female and they occurred most frequently in male at their fifties, female, forties. The most frequent primary cancers in men were carcinoma of the stomach, lung, colorectum and pancreas; in women, carcinoma of the breast, stomach, lung and uterine cervix. Cutaneous metastases from the carcinomas of the liver, uterine cervix and stomach which were many in Korea were smaller in number than that from the carcinomas of the lung and breast. Metastatic lesions were recognized before the primary tumor relatively often in carcinoma of the lung, pancreas and rarely in carcinoma of the uterine cervix, stomach. Though localizations of cutaneous metasta.sis were widespread over all body surfaces, regional areas of primary tumor were predisposed to metastasis. Metastatic carcinoma usually produced nonspecific nodules in the skin. Less commonly, some lesions of metastasis showed inflammatory or sclerotic plaque. The histologic findinga of cutaneous metastases generally mimicked that of primary tumors; nevertheless, in most instances, it was not possible to recognize the original tumor from a histologic examination of metastatic skin cancer and it was possible to classify the metastatic carcinoma only as an adenocarcinoma, a squamous cell carcinoma or an undifferntiated carcinoma.
Adenocarcinoma ; Breast ; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell ; Cervix Uteri ; Female ; Humans ; Korea ; Liver ; Lung ; Male ; Neoplasm Metastasis* ; Pancreas ; Seoul ; Skin ; Skin Neoplasms ; Stomach