No abstract available.
Animals ; Cadmium Chloride* ; Cadmium* ; Nasal Mucosa* ; Rats*

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Education* ; Humans ; Students, Medical*

Actinomycosis is an indolent, suppurative infection caused by an anaerobic gram-positive organism (usually actinomyces israelii) which usually causes infection in the face, mediastitum, lung, and abdomen. Primary esophageal actinomycosis which is not related with pulmonary or mediastinal actinomycosis, is very rare, especially in immunocompetent host. A 58-year-old woman has been suffered from dysphagia, odynophagia, and chest pain after insertion of esophageal stent in esophageal acid stricture. She underwent a esophagectomy with esophagogastrostomy for above mentioned symptoms. Pathologic diagnosis was a esophageal actinomycosis.
Abdomen ; Actinomyces ; Actinomycosis* ; Chest Pain ; Constriction, Pathologic ; Deglutition Disorders ; Diagnosis ; Esophagectomy ; Female ; Humans ; Lung ; Middle Aged ; Stents*

An autopsy case of a newborn male who died of exsanguination into the subamniotic space of placenta presumably due to the rupture of the umbilical vein, is reported. This fetus, previously uneventful except for hydramnios and partial breech presentation showed obvious signs of fetal distrees during the first stage of labor that lasted for 6 hours to this 25 year old multigravid mother who came to the hospital because of labor pain at 29 weeks of gestation. Immediately after birth the baby was pale and the Apgar score was 1. He died 30 minutes after birth. Postmortem examination confirmed generalized pallor in this 1380 gm baby, with petechial hemorrhage of viscera and subarachnoid hemorrhage. No other findings of the cause of death were found. The placenta showed large ellipsoid subamniotic hematoma containing approximately 76 ml of blood, which is 57% of the total circulation blood volume of the fetus.
Male ; Infant, Newborn ; Humans

Fiddler's neck was first described by Peachey and Matthews in 1978 to denote a condition characterized by focal lichenification and pigmentation on the left side of violinist and violist neck just below the angle of the jaw. The etiologic facters are friction, local pressure, occlusion, poor hygiene and sweating. In only a few cases has a specific hypersensitivity to one or more of the ch!n rest material(wood, lacquer, dye) or the metallic fixing been found responsible. We report a case of 15-year-old female patient with Fiddler's neck who has played the violin for 8 years.
Adolescent ; Female ; Friction ; Humans ; Hygiene ; Hypersensitivity ; Jaw ; Lacquer ; Neck* ; Pigmentation ; Sweat ; Sweating

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Family Practice* ; Humans ; Outpatients* ; Thyroid Diseases* ; Thyroid Gland*

Direct immunofluorescent (DIF) starining was performed on biopsy specimens from four patients with pityraasis lichenoides chronica. Deposits of IgM and C3 were foundin the dermal vessel walls of the lesional skin in two patients with pityriasis lichenoides chronic. Deposition of C3 and cytoid bodies were detected along the dermo-epidermal junction in one patient. This supports the view that deposition of immune complexes may play a part in the pathogenesis of pityriasis lichenoides chronica.
Antigen-Antibody Complex ; Biopsy ; Humans ; Immunoglobulin M ; Pityriasis Lichenoides ; Skin ; Vasculitis*

BACKGROUND: The incidence of primary epithelial skin cancers is rising steadily, but little is khown of the clinical features of primary epithelial skin cancers, and limited data are available in Korea. OBJECTIVE: Our purpose was to analyze the clinical characteristics of primary epithelial skin cancers. METHODS: A retrospective analysis was conducted of 106 cases of primary epithelial skin cancers observed between 1989 and 1995. RESULTS: 1. Basal cell curcinoma(BCC), 41 cases, was the most common skin cancer. The numbers of cases of squamosis cell carcinoma(SCC) and Bowens disease(BD) were 33 and 24, respectively. There were 3 cases of mixed type(BCC + SCC), 2 cases of Pagers disease and 3 cases of extramammary Pgets disease. 2. The average age at ciragnosis and the mean duration of disease were as follows . BCC(65.5 years old 4.34 years), SCC(70.2 years old-1.63 years), BD(59.3 years old-2.85 years) 3. The face was the most common anatomic site for BCC(93%) and SCC(70%), but the trunk was the most common site for BD. 4. The most common c inical type of BCC was the noduloulcerative type(65% ) and the solid type was t.he most frequert histologic type of BCC. 5. In histologic grading of SCC, grade I and II lesions occupied in 88% of total cases. The numbers of special variants of SCC were as follows aenoid(4), spindle cell(1), verrucous(2) CONCLUSIONS : 1. The average age of patient with primary epithelial skin cancers was older thar: in earlier reports in Korea, and was closer to the recent, reports in western count.ries. 2. The number of cases of BD was much higher than that reported previously. This emphasizeci the importance of tissue examination for the pigmented lesions of the skin, especially on the trunk and extremities.
Extremities ; Humans ; Incidence ; Korea ; Retrospective Studies ; Skin Neoplasms* ; Skin*

No abstract available.
Thanatophoric Dysplasia*

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