No abstract available.
Rheumatic Diseases*

No abstract available.
Anesthesia, Local* ; Lipectomy* ; Male ; Penis*

Control programme of malayan filariasis by diethylcarbamazine was set up in village, Cheju-Island, Korea. The daily dose of 6 mg per kg of body weight for 6 days was chosen as a chemotherapeutic course only for microfilaria positives, which was repeated with an interval of one or two months. For the evaluation of drug control programme the yearly posttreatment blood survey was carried out. The results collected from 1970 to 1973 were analysed from the various points of view, such as microfilaria positive rates, incidence as well as prevalence rates. The change of microfilaria counts was also utilized for the comparison of the intensity of infection among population in the four year blood surveys. Considering the extremely skewed distribution of average microfilaria density, the mode of frequency distribution of microfilaria density in a population was particularly taken into account for the evaluation of changing endemicity affected by diethyecarbamazine treatment. The equation; Y= a+b log X(a , b: constants, X=microfilaria density; Y=probit scale of cumulative frequency of positives to X microfilariae) was found to fit farily well the data collected from four-year surveys before and after treatment. From these data obtained, four regression lines have been drawn by determining "a" and "b"; two paramenters, which were increased year by year since inauguration of control programme. In the present investigation, it was verified that the chmotherapeutic control measure of malayan filariasis applied in a village of Cheju-Island has been successfully carried out and the quantitative level of endemicity inthis area has also been distinctly lowered within the four-year control programme.
parasitology-helminth-nematoda-Brugia malayi ; chemotherapy-diethylcarbamazine ; control ; filariasis ; diethylcarbamazine

To assess the effect of postoperative pain control of upper abdominal surgery through lumbar epidural narcotic injection, the 3rd or 4th lumbar epidural puncture was done, and were injected 1 mg of morphine (Group I) or 10 mg of demerol (Group II) mixed with 10 ml of normal saline into the epidural space, after operation of the cholecystectomy in 10 patients and antrectomy and vagotomy, subtotal or total gastrectomy in 10 patients. Time interval of the postoperative analgesic effect between morphine and demerol groups were compared. The results of this study were as follows: 1. In the group I, average analgesic duration was 29.4 hours. 2. In the group II, average analgesic duration was 4.0 hours. It is concluded that postoperative pain control of upper abdominal surgery through the lumbar epidural narcotic injection was effective, and morphine injection was more effective than demerol.
Cholecystectomy ; Epidural Space ; Gastrectomy ; Humans ; Meperidine ; Morphine ; Narcotics* ; Pain, Postoperative ; Punctures ; Vagotomy

No abstract available.
Osteotomy* ; Prognathism* ; Recurrence*

No abstract available.
Adenosine Triphosphatases* ; Adenosine* ; Animals ; Brain* ; Mice* ; Microsomes* ; Phenobarbital*

Distribution of Sparganum mansoni in 7 species of terrestrial snakes in Wonju City was surveyed. All kinds of snakes were found to be served as intermediate hosts of this larval worm except Elaphe schrenkii which has already been recorded as important host. Authors believe that Zamenis spinalis was firstly recorded as intermediate host of Sparganum mansoni in Korea. Some aspects of infection status, host-parasite relations and sources of human infection were briefly discussed.
parasitology-helminth-cestoda-Spirometra sp. ; sparganum ; sparganosis ; human infection

No abstract available.

BACKGROUND: Transepidermal water loss(TEWL) measurement is widely used in monitoring the degree of skin irritation. There have been many reports of site variation of TEWL between different body sites. However, there have been no reports concerning site variation on the different parts of the hand, which is important for the evaluation of hand eczema. OBJECTIVE: This study was done to better understand site variation of TEWL on the hands. METHODS: TEWL measurement has been performed on the mid-forearm and seven different sites of the hands in 20 normal human volunteers using an evaporimeter. RESULTS: A marked site variation has been observed and high values observed on most parts of the hands compared to forearms. CONCLUSION: Site selection should be seriously considered in any kind of study concerning TEWL measurement of hands.
Eczema ; Forearm ; Hand* ; Healthy Volunteers* ; Humans* ; Skin* ; Water*

The authors developed a computer program for use in report printing as well as data storage and retrieval system at the surgical pathology and its efficacy was evaluated at the Department of Pathology, Seoul National University Hospital. This program used IBM PC XT and was written in DBASE III plus language. The main features of the program included an automatic coding and decoding of the diagnosis, automatic searching of the previous biopsy during gross dictation, powerful word processing function and flexibility of the program. The data storage was carried out during the typewriting of the report, so that the typist's workload became markedly reduced. Two kinds of data files wer stored in the hard disk ; the temporary file contained full informations and the permanent file contained the core data only. Searching of a specific case was performed by pathology accession number, chart number, patient's name or by SNOMED code within a second. All the cases were arranged by copied to the diskette during the daily service automatically, with which data were easily restored in case of hard disk failure. The advantages of this program using a persosnal computer were discussed with comparison to those of larger computer system. Based on the experience of 8 months usage in Seoul National University, we assume that this program gives a sufficient solution to the surgical pathology service of many institutes where a large computer system with well designed software is not available yet.
Biopsy