Raeder's syndrome, or Raeder's paratrigeminal syndrome, is a painful Horner's syndrome characterized by unilateral head pain, oculosympathetic paralysis (miosis, ptosis) and anhydrosis over the forehead with otherwise normal facial sweating. We report two cases of Raeder's syndrome whose cause had not been found despite of intensive investigation and one case associated with nasopharyngeal tumor. The first case had a headache, miosis, ptosis but had not cranial nerve palsy. The second case had a unilateral facial headache, oculosympathetic paralysis, aoydrosis of forehead and sensory change in the ipsilateral ophthalmic division of the trigeminal nerve. The third case had a headache, miosis, ptosis, anhydrosis of forehead and sensory change in the whole territory of the trigeminal nerve.
Cranial Nerve Diseases ; Forehead ; Headache ; Horner Syndrome ; Miosis ; Paralysis ; Sweat ; Sweating ; Trigeminal Nerve

Lacune is small infarct located in the deeper part of the brain and developed by occlusion of small branch of the large cerebral arteries. It occupies 10-30% of infarction in western countries but 53.1% in our study. We investigated 181 cases of lacunar infarction confirmed by clinical features and neuroimaging study. We analyzed lacunar stroke into 13 groups of symdrome based on the clinical features. The frequent lacunar syndromes were pure motor stroke (35.4%), sensori-motor stroke (26.5%), ataxic hemiparesis (11.6%), and pure sensory stroke (6.1%). The frequent sites for lacune were pons (25.4%), corona radiata (24.9%), and thalamus (18.2%). The major contributing risk factors were hypertension (65.8%) and diabetes (19.3%). The incidence of multiple lacune was 67.4%. The determining factor for clinical presentation of lacune was not the size of lesion but the location of lesion.
Brain ; Cerebral Arteries ; Hypertension ; Incidence ; Infarction ; Neuroimaging ; Paresis ; Pons ; Risk Factors ; Stroke ; Stroke, Lacunar* ; Thalamus

OBJECTIVE : We investigated the relationship between the severity of the disease and the abnormality of some ocular movements in parkinson's disease. BACKGROUND: Disorders of eye movements have been described in diseases of the basal ganglia for over a century and ocular motor deficits of the saccadic and pursuit system have been reported in parkinsonian patients. METHOD : We studied the electro-oculography of the eye tracking and saccadic movement in 26 patients (11 males, 15 females) with Parkinson's disease. The severity of the disease was divided into two groups by Hoehn & Yahr(H-Y) staging, H-Y stage 1, 2(group A) and H-Y stage 3, 4 (Group B). Some patients antiparkinsonian drugs of L-dopa, dopamine agonist and anticholinergics. RESULT : The velocity of smooth pursuit and the velocity and latency of saccade were calculated and compared between two groups. Eye tracking test revealed decreased pursuit velocity leading to catch-up saccades, but normal phase relationship between eye and target movement, while saccadic eye movement had increased latency. These results showed more profound severity in more advanced stages of the disease. CONCLUSION : We suggest that ocular movement be often chosen as a simple but relevant example of general motor function, as well as criteria for staging of Parkinson's disease and basal ganglia play significant role in ocular movement.
Basal Ganglia ; Cholinergic Antagonists ; Dopamine Agonists ; Eye Movements ; Humans ; Levodopa ; Male ; Parkinson Disease* ; Pursuit, Smooth ; Saccades

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Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone* ; Humans ; Hypogonadism* ; Male*

Adipose Tissue ; Cheek ; Cicatrix ; Humans ; Mouth ; Oroantral Fistula ; Skin ; Subcutaneous Fat ; Tissue Donors ; Tongue ; Transplants

This study investigated the morphological differences of P. ostreatus grown in the artificial environmental conditions such as humidity, temperature, ventilation, and watering. Oyster mushroom, which was cultivated on artificial environmental condition, was shown to have different morphology of fruitbodies. The optimum CO2 concentration for good morphology of P. ostreatus was 0.3%. But most fruitbody showed the morphologically low qualities in more than 0.5% of CO2 concentration. In the humidity in excess of 80% at 13~16degrees C, the best morphology of P. ostreatus was investigated. The growth of fruitbodies of P. ostreatus in the ventilation system was good at the wind velocity ranging from 0.2~0.5 fpms and expouring type. In other conditions, P. ostreatus generally showed the morphology closing to malformation.
Humidity ; Pleurotus* ; Ventilation ; Wind

This study investigated the biochemical changes of abnormal fruiting bodies grown under artificial environmental conditions in P. ostreatus. Abnormal mushroom growth during cultivation damages the production of good quality mushroom. This study showed that different environmental conditions produced morphological changes in the fruiting bodies of P. ostreatus. The fruiting bodies with morphological changes were collected and examined for differences in biochemical properties, enzyme activities, and carbohydrates composition. The enzyme activities assay showed that glucanase and chitinase activities decreased when the temperature was below or above the optimum cultivation temperature for P. ostreatus. The biochemical compositions of the abnormal mushroom were significantly different from the normal fruiting bodies. It was suggested that the changes in the biochemical composition of abnormal mushroom were caused by the unfavorable environmental conditions during mushroom cultivation.
Agaricales ; Carbohydrates ; Chitinase ; Fruit* ; Pleurotus*

Ameloblastoma ; Curettage ; Cytochrome P-450 CYP1A1 ; Follow-Up Studies ; Odontogenic Tumors

Bicuspid ; Crowns ; Decompression ; Dental Enamel ; Dentigerous Cyst ; Epithelium ; Humans ; Male ; Mandible ; Molar, Third ; Odontogenic Cysts ; Oral Hygiene ; Osmotic Pressure ; Therapeutic Irrigation ; Tooth, Unerupted

Paclitaxel has been widely used for treating many solid tumors. Although colonic toxicity is an unusual complication of paclitaxel-based chemotherapy, the reported toxicities include pseudomembranous colitis, neutropenic enterocolitis and on rare occasions ischemic colitis. Genexol-PM(R), which is a recently developed cremophor-free, polymeric micelle-formulated paclitaxel, has shown a more potent antitumor effect because it can increase the usual dose of paclitaxel due to that Genexol-PM(R) does not include the toxic cremophor compound. We report here on a case of a 57-year-old man with advanced non-small cell lung cancer and who developed ischemic colitis after chemotherapy with Genexol-PM(R) and cisplatin. He complained of hematochezia with abdominal pain on the left lower quadrant. Colonoscopy revealed diffuse mucosal hemorrhage and edema from the sigmoid colon to the splenic flexure. After bowel rest, he recovered from his symptoms and the follow-up colonoscopic findings showed that the mucosa was healing. Since then, he was treated with pemetrexed monotherapy instead of a paclitaxel compound and platinum.
Abdominal Pain ; Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung ; Cisplatin ; Colitis, Ischemic ; Colon ; Colon, Sigmoid ; Colon, Transverse ; Colonoscopy ; Edema ; Enterocolitis, Neutropenic ; Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous ; Follow-Up Studies ; Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage ; Glutamates ; Guanine ; Hemorrhage ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; Mucous Membrane ; Paclitaxel ; Platinum ; Polyethylene Glycols ; Polymers ; Pemetrexed