Pathologic fracture is a bresk of bony continuity within an abnormal bone. The abnormslity ma be due to systemic skeletal disease, infection, primary benign and malignant tumor, or metastati carcinoms. Among these, metastatic carcinoma to bone is most common cause of pathologic fractur excluding those due to osteoporosis. When considering the msnagement, pathologic fractures due to systemic skeletal disease usually heal with conservative treatment, while others often require operative treatment. We have experienced 20 cases of pathologic fracture in long bones for 8 years from 19 to 1987. The results were as follows ; 1. The average sge was somewhat different according to underlying diseases Malignant tumorous lesion; 53 years Benign tumorous lesion ; 17 years Chronic osteomyelitis, 42 years 2. The most common cause was malignant tumorous lesion, 8 cases(40%). 3. The most frequent site was femur, 17 cases(85%). 4. Surgical treatment was done in 17 cases(85%), and conservative treatment was done in 3 cas(1sw). 5. In 3 cases of pathologic fractures due to metaststic tumor, the pain was markedly relieved and essy nursing care was possible immediately after operation.
Clinical Study ; Femur ; Fractures, Spontaneous ; Nursing Care ; Osteomyelitis ; Osteoporosis

The ankle joint is a modified complex hinge joint which plays an important role in weight bearing, walking and standing. Injuries about the ankle joint cause destruction of not only bony architecture but often also the ligamentous and soft tissue component. So the goal of the treatment of ankle fracture is restoring normal relations of ankle mortise and regaining a smooth articular surface. The author have reviewed 84 cases of ankle fractures which were treated through the admission in the Orthopedic Department, In Je Medical College Pusan Paik Hospital from June 1979 to August 1986. The average duration of the follow-up was one year. The results obtained from this study were as follows : 1. The most common type was Danis-Weber type C. Nexts were B and A in order. According to the classification of Lauge-Hansen, the most common type was Pronation-external rotstion(39.2%). 2. In Danis-Weber type B and C, satisfactory result was obtained by operative treatment. 3. Danis-Weber's classification was very practical criteria for treatment of the ankle fracture.
Ankle Fractures ; Ankle Joint ; Ankle ; Busan ; Classification ; Clinical Study ; Follow-Up Studies ; Joints ; Ligaments ; Orthopedics ; Walking ; Weight-Bearing

Pott's paraplegia has been frequently serious complication of tuberculous spondylitis, although antituberculous drugs have improved the prognosis and healing of the disease. There are much controvercy on treatement of Pott's paraplegia, which comprises immobilization with or without anterolateral antituberculous drugs, immobilization and early posterior arthrodesis, anterolatear decompression and radical anterior decompression with anterior spinal fusion. The method of anterior decompression and anterior interbody fusion which was introduced by Hdgson since 1956 has good reults. The author analyzed 27 consecutive cases of Pott's parsplegia operated at orthopedic departement, In Je Paik Hospital from May 1980 to August 1988. The results were as follows, 1. Number of cases in child was nine(33%), both sexes were similar. 2. Regions of spine involved were most common at thoracic spine(62%). Number of affected vertebrae was averaged 3.3 vertebrae. 3. There were nineteen early(70%) and eight late(30%) paraplegia. 4. There were two complete and twenty five incomplete paraplegia. 5. In operative finding, inflammatory products and sequestrated material was extrinsic factor in early in paraplegia. 6. The recovery of the paraplegia occur in twenty cases(74%) 7. The recovery of paraplegia after treatment was far better in type of early onset, type of incomplete paraplegia less than one year duration. 8. The radical anterior decompression and anterior interbody fusion was considered as recommendable method for remove of all pathologic foci, recovery of paraplegia and healing the tuberculosis with stability.
Arthrodesis ; Child ; Decompression ; Humans ; Immobilization ; Methods ; Orthopedics ; Paraplegia ; Prognosis ; Spinal Fusion ; Spine ; Spondylitis ; Tuberculosis ; Tuberculosis, Spinal

Gorham's syndrome is a rare disorder involing a proliferation of vascular channels associated with extensive loss of bony matrix. It starts in bone, but it may secondarily involve soft tissue and adjacent bones. Although the osteolysis usuakky arrests spontaneously, its biologic behavior is difficult to predict. The mechanism of steolysis is unkown, and the role of osteoclasts is controverwial We have experienced one case of Gorham's syndrome affecting the scapula and clavicle, which is reported in this paper with brief review of literature.
Clavicle ; Osteoclasts ; Osteolysis ; Scapula

Although the incidence of the skeletal tuberculosis is being decreased with improvement of the socioeconomic status, tuberculous arthritis of the hip in children has many problems in fact that there is a relatively high incidence comparing to that of adult, that it is difficult to early detection for its variable clinical feature, and that there are many controversies in its treatment. From Aug. 1981 to Apr, 1988, 14 cases treated at Busan Paik Hospital were analyzed, and the following conclusions were obtained. 1. Surgical treatment of tuberculous arthritis of the hip with early lesion was better than conservative treatment in that it could be made early diagnosis, removed the infected focus, lessened the recurrence rate, and preserved the hip function. 2. A relatively good result in preserving the hip function was obtained with surgical treatment in tuberculous arthritis of the hip with late lesion.
Adult ; Arthritis ; Busan ; Child ; Early Diagnosis ; Hip ; Humans ; Incidence ; Recurrence ; Social Class ; Tuberculosis

Glucocorticoids (GCs) are the most effective group of medications available to treat inflammation. Although most patients with inflammation respond to GC, a small group of patients exhibit persistent GC-resistance with prolonged inflammation. Previously, it was proposed that the GC-resistance is caused by low amount of human GC receptor (hGR alpha) and/or excessive presence of a GC receptor isoform, hGR beta that was generated from alternative splicing of the hGR message. We have tested this hypothesis by investigating correlation between the expression pattern of hGR mRNAs in patients with inflammatory nasal polyps and the effectiveness of GC treatment.? We have performed reverse transcription PCR analysis of mRNAs coding each hGR alpha and hGR beta in nasal tissues.? hGR alpha mRNA was more expressed in patients with nasal polyps than in normal subjects. However, the elevated hGR alpha mRNA expression was decreased after GC treatment. Compared with hGR alpha mRNA expression, level of hGR beta mRNA expression was very low in all groups. In patients, hGR beta mRNA was expressed at a similar level regardless of GC efficacy, indicating that there is no correlation between the GC sensitivity and the expression level of hGR beta mRNA. Thus, persistent GC-resistance is not associated with low expression of hGRa or over- expression of hGR beta.
Treatment Failure ; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction ; Receptors, Glucocorticoid/*metabolism ; RNA, Messenger/metabolism ; Nasal Polyps/drug therapy/*metabolism/surgery ; Middle Aged ; Male ; Humans ; Glucocorticoids/*pharmacology/therapeutic use ; Gene Expression ; Female ; *Drug Resistance ; Child ; Aged ; Adult ; Adolescent

BACKGROUND/AIMS: We studied the prevalence of chronic hepatitis B, C and abnormality on liver function among the population in northwest area of Chungnam. METHODS: We have reviewed 40,112 adults who had received medical examination at health promotion center in Dankook university hospital. We studied them retrospectively about HBsAg, HBsAb, anti-HCV, and liver function test (LFT). RESULTS: Among the study subjects, 22,936 men and 17,176 women were involved. The overall seroprevalence of HBsAg was 4.2%. The prevalence in men (4.5%) was higher than that of women (3.7%) (p<0.001). The seroprevalence of HBsAg in their age was 5.1% in the 5th decade, 4.2% in the 2nd decade, 4.1% in the 4th decade, and 4.1% in the 6th decade. The overall seroprevalence of HBsAb was 65.1%. The overall seroprevalence of anti-HCV was 0.7%. After we reexamined them with HCV RNA or RIBA (Recombinant Immunoblot Assay), the prevalence of chronic hepatitis C was 0.09%. The LFT abnormality in total subjects was 11.4%. The LFT abnormality of chronic hepatitis B and C subjects was 21.72% and 63.2%. CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of chronic hepatitis B and C was lower than that of previous studies. The prevalence of chronic hepatitis B in the 2nd decade was still high.
Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; Child ; Female ; Hepatitis B Antibodies/blood ; Hepatitis B Surface Antigens/blood ; Hepatitis B, Chronic/*epidemiology/immunology/physiopathology ; Hepatitis C Antibodies/blood ; Hepatitis C, Chronic/*epidemiology/immunology/physiopathology ; Humans ; Korea ; Liver Function Tests ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Prevalence ; RNA, Viral/blood ; Retrospective Studies

Depression is well-known to comorbid with several psychiatric disorders. Many schizophrenics also suffer from depression in the course of their illness. Combined therapy of SSRI and tricyclic antidepressants were reported to have benefits in some depressed patients. Paroxetine, a potent CYP2D6 inhibitor, increases the blood levels of tricyclic antidepressant markedly, Using paroxetine, we tried this combined therapy in the treatment of depressive symptoms in 10 chronic schizophrenic inpatients and evaluated its efficacy and drug interactions between paroxetine and tricyclic antidepressants. The following results were obtained: 1) The mean score of Hamilton's Depression Rating Scale(HDRS) was reduced significantly after 6 weeks-trials of this combined therapy for the mild depressive symptoms in 10 chronic schizophrenics. In four patients, 50% or more reductions in the scores of HDRS were noticed at final evaluation. 2) Two among our 10 subjects experienced severe toxic behavioral problems. Anticholinergic crisis with toxic confusion due to high blood levels of tricyclics was fecund in one patient and the other showed rapid clinical deterioration in his psychotic symptoms such as delusion and hallucination without any consciousness alternation. 3) Baseline plasma levels of tricyclics before adding paroxetine were higher or than expected in our chronic schizophrenic subjects maintained with their antipsychotic medications. Several antipsychotics were also known as a potent CYF2D6 inhibitors and to increase the blood levels of tricyclics. Because the blood levels of tricyclics had already increased significantly by the use of antipsychotics, adding paroxetine to antipsychotics and tricyclic antidepressant In our subjects could increase the blood levels of tricyclics not so much as previously reported in the literatures.
Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic ; Antipsychotic Agents ; Consciousness ; Cytochrome P-450 CYP2D6 ; Delusions ; Depression* ; Drug Interactions ; Hallucinations ; Humans ; Inpatients ; Paroxetine* ; Plasma ; Schizophrenia

We report two cases of mucinous ductal ectasia of the pancreas which showed characteristic pancreatoscopic findings. They also showed characteristic duodenoscopic findings such as patulous ampullary orifice and mucus leakage from the papilla, and underlying pathology was hyperplasia in one case and adenoma in the other case, The insertions of pancreatoscope into the main pancreatic duct were easy without previous sphincterotomy and whitish frog egg-like mucosa was noted in one case and finger-like papillary projection was noted in the other case.
Adenoma ; Dilatation, Pathologic* ; Hyperplasia ; Mucins* ; Mucous Membrane ; Mucus ; Pancreas* ; Pancreatic Ducts ; Pathology

We report a case of somatostatinoma, which manifested as insulinoma after liver metastasis. A 74-year-old man suffered from diabetes mellitus and jaundice. The abdominal CT scan of this patient showed a mass in the pancreas head, which obstructed biliary duct. He underwent Whipples procedure. Immunohistochemical staining of postoperative specimen disclosed that this tumor was strongly positive for somatostatin. After 4 months, follow up CT scan showed multiple metastatic lesions in the liver. We performed transarterial chemoinfusion two times, but the response was disappointing. After 2 months, he suffered from altered mentality, which was relieved by intake of sugar. Biochemical laboratory findings and immunohistochemical staining of liver biopsy disclosed that the metastatic lesion in this patient was insulinoma. We performed embolization of hepatic artery with gelform. The biochemical response was dramatic, but he died of septic shock, which was caused by gas forming liver abscess. In summary, we report a case of somatostatinoma which manifested as insulinoma after metastasis to the liver.
Aged ; Biopsy ; Diabetes Mellitus ; Follow-Up Studies ; Head ; Hepatic Artery ; Humans ; Insulinoma* ; Jaundice ; Liver Abscess ; Liver* ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Pancreas ; Shock, Septic ; Somatostatin ; Somatostatinoma* ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed