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Humans ; Spinal Stenosis*

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Muscles*

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Orbit* ; Orbital Cellulitis*

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Blood Platelets*

BACKGROUND: Reticulocyte counts provide clinically useful informations and the most widely used method for counting reticulocytes is a manual microscopic procedure. Although manual method is inexpensive and relatively simple to perform, it is labor intensive and imprecise. So, more rapid and more reproducible methods are needed. METHODS: Reticulocyte counts on 96 blood samples were performed by conventional manual method, H*3 RTX(TM)(Bayer, U.S.A.), and FACScan(TM)(Beckon Dickinson, U.S.A.). The changes of reticulocyte count after storage of samples and certain time intervals after preparation were also examined. RESULTS: Reticulocyte counts(%) by manual method, H*3 RTX(TM), and FACScanM were 2.05+/-2.16, 1.95+/-2.24 and 2.51+/-1.94, respectively. There was no statistically significant differences between manual counting and H*3 RTX(TM)(P>0.05). However, there were significant differences between H*3 RTX(TM) and FACScan(TM), manual counting and FACScan(TM)(P<0.05). Correlation coefficients of three comparisons were all above 0.920. Statistically not confirmed the reticulocytosis sample showed decreasing tendency of reticuocyte count by H*3 RTX(TM) after storage of the sample and prepared sample and others were relatively stable in H*3 RTX(TM)and FACScan(TM). CONCLUSIONS: The result of the mean difference between H*3 RTX(TM) and manual counting is statistically insignificant. So, the H*3 RTX(TM)can be used interchangeably with manual counting atter consideration of cost-effectiveness.
Reticulocyte Count ; Reticulocytes* ; Reticulocytosis

Extra-adrenal paragangliomas are rare tumors of neural crest origin, usually arising from the carotid bodies, the glomus jugulare, or the retroperitoneum. And, though ten percents of cases are presented with malignancy, it`s prognosis is relatively good. In genitourinary area, there are a few reported cases of extra-adrenal paragangliomas of the urinary bladder and the spermatic cord. Herein, we report a case of paraganglioma arising in the scrotum, which is an extremely rare location.
Carotid Body ; Glomus Jugulare ; Neural Crest ; Paraganglioma ; Paraganglioma, Extra-Adrenal* ; Prognosis ; Scrotum* ; Spermatic Cord ; Urinary Bladder

We report a case of pneumonia in 36 year-old male patient who presented acute respiratory failure and associated radiologic findings of bilateral ground-glass opacity with focal cystic changes, showing rapidly aggravating course and was diagnosed as concomitant Pneumocystis carinii and Cytomegalovirus pneumonia accompanied by acquired immunodeficiency syndrome through antemortem open lung biopsy.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ; Biopsy ; Cytomegalovirus ; Humans ; Lung ; Male ; Pneumocystis carinii ; Pneumonia ; Respiratory Insufficiency*

BACKGROUND: The interest of medicine was moved from disease treatment to disease prevention and health promotion. Especially, there has been marked increased interest in health promotion recently. Perception and health behaviors held or acquired during medical training can influence the acceptance and prevention strategies. This exploratory study surveyed medical and non-medical student to assess both preventive health behaviors and perception, to find relations of personal behaviors and corresponding perception. METHODS: This survey were conducted 140 medical students and 131 non-medical students in one big city. Data were obtained by self-reported questionnaire. Weschler survey was adapted to assess perception toward preventive behavior, and Fantastic lifestyle was adapt,ed to assess health behavior. RESULTS: Among the questionnaire of perception of preventive behavior, quitting cigarette smoking ranked highest frequency as very important in medical student. In non-medical student, use seat-belt is ranked highest frequency. Mean score of FANTASTIC lifestyle is 29.98 in medical student, 28.86 in non-medical. The result show significant relationship between st,udent-reported behavior and corresponding perception in 6 qestionnaire that is eat breakfast, moderate or no alcohol use, eliminate smoking, use seat belt, limit coffee, get seven hours sleep. CONCLUSIONS: In comparing medical and non-medical students, health perception and health behavior were no significant difference. Overall, the result indicated that the preponderance of respondents that is engaging in health behaviors are high in health perception.
Breakfast ; Coffee ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Health Behavior* ; Health Promotion ; Humans ; Life Style ; Seat Belts ; Smoke ; Smoking ; Students, Medical

It is very important for the anesthesiologists to manage this kind of patient during anesthesia because of severe hemodynamic change that is induced by aortic clamping and declamping, and its secondary effect on visce, heart and spinal cord, etc. To minimize the sudden severe hemodynamic change, we used the following agents and techniques in this clinical report. 1) Ethrane anesthesia with intermittent Innovar administration to minimize cardiac irritability. 2) To prevent secondary damage by distal hypotension during aortic clamping and declamping. 1. slight overhydration. 2. mannitol. 3. diuretics. 3) To prevent secondary damage by proximal hypertension during aortic clamping. 1. d-tubocurarine for muscle relaxation. 2. Morphine. 3. Chlorpromazine. 4. phentolamine. More over, we recommend this kind of anesthetic method in some other surgeries such as coarctation of aorta, aortic aneuryam and pheochromocytoma, etc. which may exhibit severe hemodynamic change during anesthesia.
Anesthesia ; Aortic Coarctation ; Chlorpromazine ; Constriction ; Diuretics ; Enflurane ; Heart ; Hemodynamics ; Humans ; Hypertension ; Hypertension, Renovascular* ; Hypotension ; Mannitol ; Morphine ; Muscle Relaxation ; Phentolamine ; Pheochromocytoma ; Spinal Cord ; Tubocurarine

Corticobasal degeneration (CBD) is characterized by asymmetric clinical manifestations including asymmetrical apraxia, alien limb movement and Parkinsonian symptoms. Cognitive function is relatively normal in the early course of illness. We report a 59 years old right-handed male with CBD. He showed asymmetrical ideomotor apraxia, alien limb movement and extrapyramidal symptom, such as cogwheel rigidity and bradykinesia, that were more severe in the right hand. These symptoms have deteriorated progressively for 2 years, but the cognitive function was relatively pre-served. Brain MRI revealed atrophic changes in both parietal lobes. FDG-PET showed an asymmetrical hypometabo-lism in supplementary motor area, parietal lobe, thalamus and basal ganglia, which was more severe in the left than the right hemisphere.
Apraxia, Ideomotor ; Apraxias* ; Basal Ganglia ; Brain ; Emigrants and Immigrants ; Extremities ; Hand ; Humans ; Hypokinesia ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Muscle Rigidity ; Parietal Lobe ; Thalamus