No abstract available.
T-Lymphocyte Subsets* ; Thyroid Diseases* ; Thyroid Gland*

No abstract available.
T-Lymphocyte Subsets* ; Thyroid Diseases* ; Thyroid Gland*

Fracture of the shaft of the humerus had been treated by many different way, such as hanging cast, shoulder spica cast, abduction splint, and Velpeau bandage, etc, The authors have employed the new trianglar splint designed by ourselves for the 54 cases of fracture of the humeral shaft from Jan., 1965 to Oct., 1976 in the department of Orthopedic surgery of Han-il Hospital. In our experience, the triangular splint method is useful for not only fracture between the head of the humerus and supracondylar region, but also shoulder joint injuries and diseases which need firm immobilization. The triangular splint method has merits, such as spontaneous reduction by the fractured arm weight with gravity, the stability during care, relatively comfort during procedure. Satisfactory results had been obtained by the triangular splint method.
Arm ; Bandages ; Gravitation ; Head ; Humerus ; Immobilization ; Methods ; Orthopedics ; Shoulder ; Shoulder Joint ; Splints

Morphological characteristics of human embryos of Carnegie stage 17 were described. The crown rump length of these embryos were 11.7-13.6mm. These embryos were characterized externally by ventrally directed nasal pits, 6 distinct auricular hillocks, finger rays in the hand plate, digital plate at the lower limb bud, herniation of a part of midgut through umbilical cord, and internally by the partial fusion of ventral and dorsal pancreas, prominent nasal sac which is not open to primitive oral cavity, formation of segmental and some subsegmental bronchial buds, branching of metanephrotic pelvis, crescent-shaped lens cavity, and imminent semicircular ducts.
Crown-Rump Length ; Embryonic Structures* ; Fingers ; Hand ; Humans* ; Lower Extremity ; Mouth ; Pancreas ; Pelvis ; Semicircular Ducts ; Umbilical Cord

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Animals ; Isoproterenol* ; Nitric Oxide* ; Rats* ; Urinary Bladder*

The superficial sural artery flap is supplied by the superficial sural artery that accompanies the sural nerve. The superficial sural artery connects distally with a peroneal artery septocutaneous perforator via a suprafascial network of vessels that permits the flap to be raised on its distal pedicle. We treated 10 patients who showed soft tissue defect of the lower third of the leg, around the ankle and the hindfoot with this flap. The causes of the soft tissue defect were trauma in 6 cases, pressure sore in 2 cases, squamous cell carcinoma in 1 case and osteomyelitis in 1 case. The sites of the soft tissue defect were the lower third of the leg in 5 cases, around the ankle in 2 cases and the hindfoot in 3 cases. The size of the soft tissue defect was from 5x6 cm to 8xl2 cm. All 10 flaps survived. Two flaps showed slight venous congestion which cleared in a few days. The time for flap dissection was 15 minutes in average. The results of our cases show that the distally based superficial sural artery flap is useful for the soft tissue coverage of the lower third of the leg, around the ankle and the hindfoot. The advantages of the flap are that the blood supply is reliable, elevation is easy and quick, the major arteries are not sacrificed and the donor site morbidity is negligible.
Ankle ; Arteries* ; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell ; Humans ; Hyperemia ; Leg ; Lower Extremity ; Osteomyelitis ; Pressure Ulcer ; Sural Nerve ; Tissue Donors

No abstract available.
Animals ; Electroshock* ; Glutamate Decarboxylase* ; Glutamate-Ammonia Ligase* ; Glutamic Acid* ; Glutamine* ; Hippocampus* ; Rats*

The extracellular cytolysin produced by V. ulnificus has gained great attention as a causative factor for the pathogenesis of V. vulnificus-infected disease. In this study, an attempt was made to elucidated the mechanism for the toxity of cytolysin. 1. Cytolysin given to mouse showed lethal activity with LD of 3.7 HU and produced hemoconcentration, suggesting that its lethal activitis attributable to the increased vascular permeability. 2. The lethal activity of cytolysin for mouse was prevented by intraperitoneal administration of clemastin or verapamil one hour before intravenous injection of cytolysin. 3. Treatment of peritoneal mast cells from rats with cytolysin stimulated histamine relesse irrespective of the prescence of extracellular Ca and the stimulatory effect of cytolysin was not affected by the pretreatment of mast cells with per tussis toxin. 4. The hemolytic activity and stimulatory effect of cytolysin on histamine release from mast cell were inhibited by cholesterol. The results suggest that the lethal activity of cytolysin is attributable to the increased vascular permeability which is resulted from the stimulation of histsmine release from mast cells and/or basophils by cytolysin.
Animals ; Basophils ; Capillary Permeability ; Cholesterol ; Histamine ; Histamine Release ; Injections, Intravenous ; Mast Cells ; Mice ; Perforin* ; Rats ; Verapamil ; Vibrio vulnificus* ; Vibrio*

BACKGROUND: Antibiotic therapy has proven an effective method of treatment on the majority of patients with pyogenic lung abscess and infected bulla. When medical therapy has failed, pulmonary resection is the current generally recommended therapy. But nowdays complications of percutaneous tube drainage has decreased with the use of small catheter. So we evaluated the effect of percutaneous tube drainage as an alternative therapy to the pyogenic lung abscess and infected bulls refractory to medical therapy in preference of the pulmonary resection. METHOD: Nine cases of the lung abscess and three cases of infected bulls which has large cavity size over 6cm, and has underlying diseases such as lung cancer, diabetes mellitus, refractory to over 1 week of antibiotics, were performed percutaneous tube drainage with All Purpose Drainage catheter(Medi-tech, Watertown, USA) under fluoroscopy. RESULTS: All the cases except one case which complicated empyema was improved clinically. Fever was down within 4days of percutaneous tube drainage(mean : 1.9days). Mean duration of tube drainage was 9.9days. CONCLUSION: Percutaneous tube drainage is an effective and relatively safe procedure in the management of lung abscesses that do not response to medical therapy We speculate this procedure should be considered as an alternative therapy for the lung abscess refractory to medical therapy in preference to the surgery. The safety and effectiveness of this procedure in infected bulla should be evaluated with an additional study.
Anti-Bacterial Agents ; Catheters ; Diabetes Mellitus ; Drainage* ; Empyema ; Fever ; Fluoroscopy ; Humans ; Lung Abscess* ; Lung Neoplasms ; Lung*

Torn discoid lateral meniscus has been numerously reported in diagnosis and treatment. But discoid meniscus in children of which clinical pictures were thought to be different from adults was rarely known. We experienced 2 cases of discoid meniscus tear in children whose ages were below 4 years old and report with references.
Adult ; Child ; Child, Preschool* ; Diagnosis ; Humans ; Menisci, Tibial*