A case of ovarian dermoid cytso-vesical fistulal with the vesical stone containing a cluster of hairs are presented, developed in 32 years old woman who suffered from vesical irritability and pilimiction for recent 5 years.
Adult ; Dermoid Cyst* ; Female ; Fistula* ; Hair ; Humans

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Mercury Poisoning*

The value of the noninvasive diagnostic methods for vascular disease is worthy of emphasis. In many studies, the diagnostic abnormal findings of the vascular disease were reported. But there were a few studies for normal human vasculatures measuring with noninvasive diagnostic methods. And more, there is few data for vasculature of Oriental people, especially of the Korean population. The authors examed 20 healthy persons without any vascular disease by using the noninvasive vascular diagnostic tool-duplex scan and air plethysmography. The knowledge of the normal data of human vasculature, especially Korean population, will improve the sensitivity and specificity of the noninvasive vascular diagnostic methods. It is not appropriate to presume that this report with analysis of only 20 cases represent the normal data of Korean population. Further collection of the data is needed to define the normal data of vasculature of Korean population.
Blood Vessels ; Hemodynamics ; Humans ; Plethysmography ; Sensitivity and Specificity ; Vascular Diseases

PURPOSE: To evaluate the incidence and clinical features of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in Korea. METHODS: Web-based (www.armd-nova.or.kr) registration was conducted for AMD patients aged 50 or more who were newly diagnosed by retinal specialists in Korea from August 20, 2005 to August 20, 2006. Patient data including ophthalmologic examination, fundus photography, fluorescein angiogram and/or indocyanin green angiogram (ICG), past medical history, behavioral habit, combined systemic diseases were up-loaded. RESULTS: Among finally enrolled 1,141 newly diagnosed AMD patients, 690 patients (60.5%) were male and 451 patients (39.5%) were female. The average age of AMD patients was 69.7+/-8.0. Early AMD was observed in 190 patients and 951 patients had late AMD. Classic choroidal neovascular membrane (CNVM) was observed in 18.6% of exudative AMD patients and 63.4 % had occult CNVM. Subfoveal CNVM was observed in 80.4% of the patients with CNVM. Among the 580 exudative AMD eyes that performed indocyanin green angiography (ICG), 184 eyes (31.7%) had polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) and 36 eyes (6.2%) showed retinal angiomatous proliferation (RAP). Age, male gender, smoking, diabetes and hypertension significantly increased the risk of the AMD among Koreans. CONCLUSIONS: Because of the low rate of participation by retinal specialists, definite incidence of AMD was not obtainable. However, the estimated 1-year AMD incidence in the Pusan area of Korea is at least 0.4%. In contrast to Western people, 31.7% of exudative AMD cases were revealed to be PCV and 6.2% were revealed to be RAP. This discrepancy between ethnic groups should be considered in the diagnosis and treatment modality selection of Korean AMD patients.
Aged ; Angiography ; Choroid ; Ethnic Groups ; Eye ; Female ; Fluorescein ; Humans ; Hypertension ; Incidence ; Korea ; Macular Degeneration ; Male ; Membranes ; Photography ; Retinaldehyde ; Smoke ; Smoking ; Specialization