Abdominal pain usually originates from the abdomen, but the lack of evidence of any abdominal disease suggests the pain originate from the thorax or have metabolic and neurogenic causes. Especially, neurogenic abdominal pain is recurrent and sustained causalgic pain, regardless of diet and without abdominal distension or rigidity, may be accompanied by signs of neurologic dysfunction. We have experienced a very rare case of abdominal pain arising from the intramedullary cavernous hemangioma of spinal cord. We report this case with a review of the literature.
Abdomen ; Abdominal Pain* ; Diet ; Hemangioma, Cavernous ; Neurologic Manifestations ; Spinal Cord ; Thorax

Clinical observation was performed on the 84 hips of 72 patients which were replaced by total hip, who were treated at Department of Orthopedic Surgery, College of Medicine, Busan National University, from March 1978 to March 1981. The follow-up period of each case varied from 1 to 4 years. The results obtained were as follows: 1. The peak age incidence ranged from 51 to 60 years, which comprised 37.1% (23 patients) of total cases. 2. The causes of the hip diseases were; 25 cases of post-traumatic avscular necrosis of the head, which comprised highest incidence, 19 osteoarthritis, 14 primary avscular necrosis of the head, 4 ankylosing spondylitis, and 3 rheumatoirl arthritis. 3. The most commonly used prosthesis was Muller type in 64 cases (88.9%); Trapezoidal-28 in 3 cases; Ceramic-metal type in 4 cases; and modified Muller type by Japanese in 1 case. 4. Anterolateral approach was used in all cases except for the 3 cases in whom anterior approach was made. In most cases, greater trochanter osteotomy was not performed except for the 9 cases in whom operative field were poorly exposed without osteotomy. 5. Several complications developed; perforation of femur shaft and acetabulum during the operation in 1 case each, Post-operative deep seated infection in 2 cases, thrombophlebitis in 1 case, wire breakage in 2 cases, stem failure in 1 case, and femoral shaft fracture in 1 case. 6. Postoperative functional evaluation by the Merle d'Aubigne and Postel method was done; pain relief in 92.4%, mobility recovery in 71.6% and functional inprovement in 70.1% belonged to grade 5 and 6. Relief of pain is the most prominent effect of the total hip rep1acement surgery in this series.
Acetabulum ; Arthritis ; Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip ; Asian Continental Ancestry Group ; Busan ; Femur ; Follow-Up Studies ; Head ; Hip ; Humans ; Incidence ; Methods ; Necrosis ; Orthopedics ; Osteoarthritis ; Osteotomy ; Prostheses and Implants ; Spondylitis, Ankylosing ; Thrombophlebitis

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Humans ; Knee*

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Arthrodesis* ; External Fixators* ; Knee*

No abstract available.
Tibial Fractures*

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Dislocations*

Rhabdomyosarcoma which was first described by Weber has generally been considered an uncommon tumor of striated muscle. Recently it was classified as four types as embryonal, alveolar, pleomorphic, and botryoid type by Horn and Enterline. A fourth type, sarcoma botryoides was generally recognized as a variant of the embryonal type. Al1 of these tumors tend to have a short clinical course, but the survival time seems to be slightly improved by sugical excision followed by radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Authors report one case of rhabdomyosarcoma, which was seen in the right lower leg and showed a rapid growing nature to die, which experienced in Busan National University Hospital, February, 1983.
Animals ; Busan ; Drug Therapy ; Horns ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; Leg ; Muscle, Striated ; Radiotherapy ; Rhabdomyosarcoma ; Rhabdomyosarcoma, Embryonal ; Sarcoma

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Leg* ; Skin*

Dieulafoys lesion consists of abnormally large gastric submucosal artery which ruptures into the stomach causing massive or recurrent intragikstric bleeding. The lesion is very small and easily overlooked even at laparatomy and aan only be correctly diagnosed by endoscopy or arteriography if the patient is actively bleeding. Three patients who were admitted with bleeding of upper gastrointestinal tract and eventually diagnosed as having Dieulafoys lesions were analysed. All were men with age range of 44 to 55 years. All patient were asymptomatic before presenting with hematemesis. Two of the three patients had had history of upper Gl bleeding. One patient used analgesics daily for ureteral colic and two patient drank alcohol excessively. Gastroscopy was performed during the bleeding episode in all three patients. Dieulafoy's lesion was seen in all three cases and in the second case, there was concomittent diffuse petechia in the whole stomach. The lesion was situated on the posterior wall of upper body in one, on anterior wall of upper body in another, lesser curvature side of gastric fundus in the other case. All three patient underwent laparotomy for persistent bleeding and the lesion was suture ligated only in two patients while in one patient vagotomy and pyloroplasty was added. Resection biopsy was performed in two cases and both revealed only normal gastric mucosa. All patients discharged after complete recover.
Analgesics ; Angiography ; Arteries ; Biopsy ; Endoscopy ; Gastric Fundus ; Gastric Mucosa ; Gastroscopy ; Hematemesis ; Hemorrhage ; Humans ; Laparotomy ; Male ; Renal Colic ; Rupture ; Stomach ; Sutures ; Upper Gastrointestinal Tract ; Vagotomy

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Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive*