No abstract available.
Electrocardiography*

The measurement of tumor cell proliferation is becoming inueasingly recognized in defining prognostic groups. Boliferatirg cell nuclear antigen(PCNA) imrnunolocalimtion can be used as an index of cell proliferation and rnay define the extent of deppature from norrmil gmwth control. PCNA is eonsidered to be maker of cell proliferation. The aim of this study was to evnlunte the expreeion of PCNA in epithelial ocarian cancer as well as the possible correlation with degree of differentiation, tumor etage and overall survival. The material consisted of 35 epithehal ovarian cancer. The PCNA labelling index (Ll) ranged from 7.5% to 92.5% with a median value of 46.7%. PCNA labelling index (LI) is 30% in grade 1, 63% in grade 2, and 100% in grade 3 in epithelial ovarian cancer(p>0.05). Also, a positive correlation was found between PCNA labelling index (LI) and clinical stage (P<0.05) The estimated 3 year survival in patients with a tumor LI below the median (low proliferative group) was higher than those with a tumor LI greater than the median(high proliferation group) (87.5% VS 50%, P<0.05).
Cell Proliferation ; Humans ; Ovarian Neoplasms ; Prognosis* ; Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen*

The measurement of tumor cell proliferation is becoming inueasingly recognized in defining prognostic groups. Boliferatirg cell nuclear antigen(PCNA) imrnunolocalimtion can be used as an index of cell proliferation and rnay define the extent of deppature from norrmil gmwth control. PCNA is eonsidered to be maker of cell proliferation. The aim of this study was to evnlunte the expreeion of PCNA in epithelial ocarian cancer as well as the possible correlation with degree of differentiation, tumor etage and overall survival. The material consisted of 35 epithehal ovarian cancer. The PCNA labelling index (Ll) ranged from 7.5% to 92.5% with a median value of 46.7%. PCNA labelling index (LI) is 30% in grade 1, 63% in grade 2, and 100% in grade 3 in epithelial ovarian cancer(p>0.05). Also, a positive correlation was found between PCNA labelling index (LI) and clinical stage (P<0.05) The estimated 3 year survival in patients with a tumor LI below the median (low proliferative group) was higher than those with a tumor LI greater than the median(high proliferation group) (87.5% VS 50%, P<0.05).
Cell Proliferation ; Humans ; Ovarian Neoplasms ; Prognosis* ; Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen*

No abstract available.
Heart* ; Thoracic Surgery*

Residual pain is the crucial factor that incapacitates the victims of stable fractures of the dorsolumbar vertebral bodies. This paper was designed to investigate the incidence and location of the residual pain and to confirm the mechanism of it. Forty-two patients with old, stable fractures of the dorso-lumbar vertebral bodies have been analysed clinically and rediologically. Results obtained were as follows: 1. Thirty-two (76.2%) out of fourty-two patients complained of residual pain. 2. In fracture group of the dorso-lumbar junction, the residual pains appeared at both site of lumbar area. But in fracture group of the lower lumbar spine, the residual pain predominantly localized at the site of fracture. 3. In fracture group of the dorso-lumbar junction, the lordotic curvature of the lumbar spine and Ferguson angle increased. On the contrary, in the fracture group of the lower lumbar spine they decreased. 4. In group complaining of the residual pain, simple oblique view and flexion-extension view of the lumbar spine revealed facet subluxation of one or more than one facet joint. When the subluxation was at the joint between the fourth and fifth lumbar vertebra and the first sacral vertebra, the pars interarticularis was impinged by articular processes of the adjacent vertebrae. In addition, the sclerosis and narrowing of the pars interarticularis were noted. 5. It was suggested as the one of possible mechanism of the residual pain that compensatory hyperlordosis of the lumbar spine and subluxation of the facet joint resulted in so-called “facet syndrome” brought about the residual pain.
Humans ; Incidence ; Joints ; Sclerosis ; Spine ; Zygapophyseal Joint

Among the many causes producing lower back pain herniated nucleus pulposus and bulging disk have occupiedlarge percentaages and uniformly showed defect on lateral aspect of contrast filled thecal sac. But it isessential to differentiate each conditions from the other because of their different treatment methods.differentiation at metrizamide myelography between a diffusely bullging disk(unlikely to cause nerve rootcompression) and a herniated disk is based on the curature, extent, and multipllicity of the extradural deformityof the anterolateral margin of the contrast filled sac and o hte presence of fusiform widening of the most distalpart of the affected nerve root. The deformities caused by a bullging disk are round, usually symmetrical(aothoughoccasionally more prominent on one side), do not extend above or below the disk space, and can show multiple levelinvolvement; the nerve root is uniform in caliber and normal in size(although some of severe bulging show fusiformwidening of the most distal part of the affected nerve root). The deformities caused by a herniated disk isangular and extends cephalad and/or caudal to the level of the disk space; the affected nerve root is usuallywidened in its most distal visible part. A consecutive series of 50 patients with low back pain and no pasthistory of back surgery who did metrizamide myelography underwent spine CT and /or laminectomy. Using the criterialisted above for differentiation of bulging from herniated disk on metrizamide myelography, the myelographicdiagnosis was correct in 32(22 patients) of 34(24 patients) (95%) surgically and/or computed tomographicallyconfirmed bulging disks and in all 26 (100%) surgically and/or computed tomographically confirmed herniated disks.
Clothing ; Congenital Abnormalities ; Humans ; Intervertebral Disc Displacement ; Laminectomy ; Low Back Pain ; Metrizamide ; Myelography ; Spine

No abstract available.
Thyroid Gland*

No abstract available.
Embryonic Stem Cells*

No abstract available.
Lymphadenitis* ; Tuberculosis*

"Cutaneous horn", the clinical term first defined by Moncorps in 1931, has been used to describe those markedly hyperkeratotic growths resembling the horns of animals in shape and hardness. Recently, we observed a typical case of cutaneous horn in a 13-year-old child. He had a finger-tip sized, yellow-brown, hard, protruding tumor with surrounding erythema on the right little finger for 2 years. On microscopic examination, the biopsy specimen from the squamous epithelium of tbe base showed a typical verruca vulgaris. Total excision and skin graft were performed under general anesthesia.
Child ; Male ; Female ; Humans ; Animals ; Biopsy