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PURPOSE: This study was done to identify the awareness of gender equality among nursing college students, and to provide basic data for educational solutions and desirable directions. METHODS: A Q-methodology which provides a method of analyzing the subjectivity of each item was used. 34 selected Q-statements from each of 20 women nursing college students were classified into a shape of normal distribution using 9-point scale. Subjectivity on the equality among genders was analyzed by the pc-QUANL program. RESULTS: Four types of awareness of gender equality in nursing college students were identified. The name for type I was 'pursuit of androgyny', for type II, 'difference-recognition', for type III, 'human-relationship emphasis', and for type IV, 'social-system emphasis'. CONCLUSION: The results of this study indicate that different approaches to educational programs on gender equality are recommended for nursing college students based on the four types of gender equality awareness.
Female ; *Gender Identity ; Humans ; Interviews as Topic ; Q-Sort ; Questionnaires ; Students, Nursing/*psychology ; Young Adult

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Humans

Pseudopolyps represent discrete areas of mucosal inflammation and regeneration that are seen in a variety of inflammatory bowel disease including ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. These polyps are typically short, measuring less than 1.5 cm in height. Rarely, localized giant pseudopolyposis can occur, i.e., a collection of larger inflammatory pseudopolyps giving rise to a mass lesion within the colon. The most serious problem concerned with pseudopolyposis is a confusion with carcinoma. We experienced a case of localized giant pseudopolyposis causing partial large bowel obstruction. Right hemicolectomy was done for a preoperative diagnosis of ascending colon carcinoma. The resected specimen contained a circumferential lesion, which was composed of numerous interconnecting cylindrical villi, measuring 12 cm in length and 3 cm in height. Microscopically, these polypoid lesions were inflammatory pseudopolyps. Several deep fissure-like ulcerations were noted with multifocal microabscess, lymphoid hyperplasia and an area of noncaseating granuloma.

When coexistence of carcinoma with similar histologic type is present in female genital tract, it is difficult to differentiate independent primary tumor from metastasis. Most of them are endometrial and ovarian tumors, but coexistence of uterine cervical and ovarian tumor with similar histologic type is rare. We experienced an independent primary tumor of ovarian mucinous cystadenocarcinoma associated with mucinous adenocarcinoma of uterine cervix. The patient was a 50-year-old woman. She had a lower abdominal mass which was detected as a huge cyst on ultrasonography. Although the ovarian lesions were bilateral, features that preferred to consider independent primary tumor are listed as; absence of lymphatic or vascular invasion, absence of ovarian surface implant, superficial invasion of cervical tumor, absence of tumor in abdominal cavity, and disease free follow-up after removal of the tumor.
Female ; Humans ; Cysts ; Adenocarcinoma

The 35 patients who have suffered from myositis ossificans were investigated for 11 years. They wereposttraumatic patients, They trauma was divided into 3 groups; spinal cord injury, direct injury(fracture) andmixed type involving both. We evaluated the age distribution, the frequency of myositis ossificans, predilectionsite, bilaterality and relation between predilection site and bilaterality to the type of trauma. The results areas follows; 1. The age distribution was highest in 4th decades(12 among 35 patients). 2. In regard to distributionof 35 patients, spinal cord injury were most common (15 cases, 43%), the fracture nextly common (14, 40%) and thenmixed type (6,17%). 3. Among 51 cases of myositis ossificans, the frequency was highest in spinal cord injury(25cases, 49%), next was fracture(14, 27%). 4. The correlation between predilection site of myositis ossificans andlevel of spinal cord injury, hip is the most frequent site in thoracic injury. 6. The bilaterality of myositisossificans is 39%(20 among 51 lesions).
Age Distribution ; Hip ; Humans ; Myositis Ossificans ; Myositis ; Spinal Cord ; Spinal Cord Injuries ; Thoracic Injuries

The ultrasound is easily available and noninvasive diagnostic method without radiation hazard. We can approachto differential diagnosis of ovarian tumors by gray sale ultrasound which can display the detailed structure ofsoft tissue. In department of radiology, Korea Veterans Hospital, 27 cases of histologically confiremd ovariantumors collected from March 1984 to February 1986 were analized. The results were as follows: 1. The agedistribution was from 13 to 72 years. 2. The histologic diagnosis of ovarian tumors(27 cases) are as follows:teratoma(14), mucinous cystadenoma(8), mucinous cystadenocarcinoma(1), serous cystadenoma (2), Krukenburg tumor(1)and malignant thecoma (1). 3. The long diameter of ovarian tumors ranges from 4cm to 28cm. In these, mucinouscystadenoma is the largest and their size are as follows; less than 10cm; 25%, 11–15 cm; 12%, 16–20 cm; 25% andmore than 20cm; 38%. 4. The ultrasonographic findings of teratoma(14) were mainly cystic (8) or echogenic(6).There were echogenic solid components showing distal acoustic shadowing or fat-fluid level within cystic masses.Echogenecity of solid masses was heterogenous. 5. The ultrasonographic findings of mucinous cystadenoma&cystadenocarcinoma(9) were unilocular cystic (3) or multilocular cystic(6). There were variable amount ofechogenic component within cystic masses. 6. Those of serous cystadenoma(2) were unilocular cystic (1) ormultilocular cystic (1). 7. Krukenburg tumor(1) and Malignant thecoma(1) were heterogenously echogenic.
Acoustics ; Commerce ; Cystadenoma, Serous ; Diagnosis ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Hospitals, Veterans ; Korea ; Methods ; Mucins ; Shadowing (Histology) ; Thecoma ; Ultrasonography

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Biopsy, Fine-Needle*

Placenta accreta is a rare but potentially lethal obstetric emergency due to massive hemorrhage, uterine perforation, and infection. Traditionally, hysterectomy was performed in the occurrence of serious hemorrhage. Currently, several conservative treatments including the use of uterine packing, leaving the placenta in situ, argon-beam coagulation, uterine artery ligation, administration of methotrexate, and uterine artery embolizations are introduced to preserve future reproductive potential. We present a patient with placenta accreta treated successfully with selective uterine artery embolization followed by methotrexate with brief review of literature.
Emergencies ; Hemorrhage ; Humans ; Hysterectomy ; Ligation ; Methotrexate* ; Placenta Accreta* ; Placenta* ; Uterine Artery Embolization* ; Uterine Artery* ; Uterine Hemorrhage

PURPOSE: We evaluated the efficacy and prognostic predictability of the 7th UICC TNM classification compared to 6th UICC TNM classification in patients with gastric cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Between June 1992 and December 2006, 1,633 patients with gastric cancer who had undergone gastric surgery and who had been analyzed by the 6th UICC method were analyzed using the new 7th UICC system. RESULTS: Significant differences in 5-year survival rates were observed for 7th UICC N0, N1, N2, N3a, and N3b compared to 6th UICC. There were no significant differences in 5-year survival rates between T2 and T3. Distinct survival differences were present between stage III (IIIa, IIIb, and IIIc) and stage IV in 7th UICC. Significant differences in 5-year survival rates were not expected for Ia versus Ib, Ib versus IIa, and IIb versus IIIa. The survival rates for the same stages were not homogeneously differentiated by 7th UICC except for stage IV. CONCLUSION: The 7th UICC classification system is not better able to predict patient survival compared to 6th UICC in patients with gastric cancer, but is better for accurate prognosis of patients with stage IV gastric cancer.
Humans ; Neoplasm Staging ; Prognosis ; Stomach Neoplasms ; Survival Rate