Congenital hemihypertrophy is one of the more unusual and interesting errors of nature found in the human race. The hemihypertrophy was first described by Meckel in 1822, and the first case was recorded by Wagner in 1839. Since that time, over 140 cases have been reported. The purpose of this article is to report an additional case along with review of previous literatures.
Continental Population Groups ; Humans

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Dentures* ; Mucous Membrane*

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the administration period of the prophylactic antibiotic and anti-inflammatory drug used to reduce postoperative infection and edema, as compared with normal tissue healing period after operation. Author selected the 98 patients who had been performed maxillofacial bone fracture surgery, orthognathic surgery, sort tissue surgery, removal of miniplate and screw, and cyst operation, among 159 patients admitted to the department of oral and maxillofacial surgery of the one general hospital in Daegu city, during 6 months from January to June 1996. The results was slightly long administration for antibiotics and anti-inflammatory agents, as compared with physiologic healing process after surgery. Conclusively, the author propose that prophylactic antibiotics administration should be limited within 3 to 7 days after operation, and 3 to 5 days for anti-inflammatory drugs.
Anti-Bacterial Agents* ; Anti-Inflammatory Agents ; Daegu ; Edema* ; Fractures, Bone ; Hospitals, General ; Humans ; Orthognathic Surgery ; Surgery, Oral

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Side effects of iohexol myelography are known to largely depend on the leakage amount of cerebrospinal fluid at the puncture site of the dura. To evaluate the relationship between side effect incidence and spinal needle size and to assess the possibility of performing myelography in outpatients, iohexol myelography was performed in 100 patients(58 inpatients and 42 outpatients) using variable sized needles. A questionaire including presence or absence, duration and degree of various side effect was used for evaluation of side effect. The overall side effect included headache (15%), back pain (14%). Dizziness (9%), and nausea(4%), etc. The incidences of side effects were 28.0% in total, and 16.7%, 23.5%, 26.3%, 46.4%, in patients using 25G, 23G, 22G, 21G spinal needles, retrospectively. The difference of side effect incidence was not significant between male and female. In conclusion, the use of fine spinal needles(25-26G) is recommended to decrease the side effect incidences in myelgraphy. Our findings support the use of fine needle myelography as a safe, less side-effect procedure, not only for in patients but also for out patients.
Back Pain ; Cerebrospinal Fluid ; Dizziness ; Female ; Headache ; Humans ; Incidence* ; Inpatients ; Iohexol* ; Male ; Myelography* ; Needles* ; Outpatients ; Punctures ; Retrospective Studies

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Porphyromonas gingivalis has been implicated in adult periodontitis. A 75-kDa major outer membrane protein of P. gingivalis is an immunodominant antigen and is often associated with fimbrial proteins during its purification. The present study was performed to generate monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) to the 75-kDa protein and characterize the protein and the MAbs. Kight-week-old BALB/c mice were immunized with the partially purified 75-kDa protein from P. gingivalis 2561. Spleen cells of the mice were hybridized with SP2/0 Ag-14 mouse myeloma cells and then fused with polyethylene glyeol 3400. Hybrid cells surviving hypoxanthine/aminopterin/thymidine medium were tested for antibody secretion by ELISA. Positive clones were subcloned by limiting dilution and then three subclones were obtained. The subclones were injected peritoneally into Pristane-primed mice to produce MAbs. Immunoreactivity of the MAbs was confirmed by an immunoblot analysis. In the immunoblot using a partially denatured crude 75-kDa protein preparation as an antigen, the 75-kDa protein reacting with the MAbs revealed a ladder- like pattern which has been known as a characteristic of a native polymeric form of fimbriae. The intervals of the ladders, however, were different from those of fimbrial protein. The MAbs also recognized the completely denatured 75-kDa protein. Immunogold localization using IgG fraction of the MAbs demonstrated that the gold particles were deposited on globules on the surface of P. gingivalis 2561, but not on fimbriae. These results suggest that the 75-kDa protein is antigenically different from fimbrial protein and in nature, is not associated with, but may be physicochemically associated with the fimbrial protein during extraction and purification procedures for these proteins. Immunoreactivity of these 3 MAbs was tested by immunoblot using sonic extracts from various P. gingivalis strains. All the MAbs reacted only with the strains having proteins in their sonic extracts with a molecular mass of 75 kDa, but failed to recognize the strains having proteins with molecular masses of 61, 61.5, 76, and 78 kDa. These results indicate that strains of P. gingivalis have antigenically different major outer membrane proteins and the MAbs in the present study might have been raised against the same common, exposed immunodominant epitope in the 75-kDa proteins.
Animals ; Antibodies, Monoclonal* ; Chronic Periodontitis ; Clone Cells ; Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay ; Hybrid Cells ; Immunoglobulin G ; Membrane Proteins* ; Membranes* ; Mice ; Polyethylene ; Polymers ; Porphyromonas gingivalis* ; Porphyromonas* ; Spleen

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Child* ; Gestational Age* ; Humans ; Insulin Resistance* ; Insulin*

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Aerospace Medicine* ; Aviation* ; Hungary*