The medial collateral ligament is the most commonly injured ligamentous structure of the knee. The management of the medial collateral ligament injuries were divided into surgical and conservative treatment. More recently, many investigators reported that isolated medial collateral ligament injuries did well under non-operative treatment. So, arthroscopic examination of the knee to rule out other intraarticular pathologic conditions such as cruciate ligament injuries, meniscal tear and osteochondral lesion is essential. From October 1993 to April 1995, we treated 45 cases of Grade III medial collateral ligament injuries and arthroscopic finding for cruciate ligament, meniscus, bony structure were analized in these cases. The result were as follows; 1. Anterior cruciate ligament injury:37.5% in +1 degree, 42.8% in +2 degree, 86.7% in +3 degree 2. Posterior cruciate ligament injury:12.5% in +1 degree, 13.4% in +2 degree, 33.3% in +3 degree 3. Meniscal injury:12.5% in +1 degree, 21.3% in +2 degree, 33.4% in +3 degree 4. Medial capsular ligament injury was more frequent and severe in the meniscofemoral ligament than in the meniscotibial ligament, but that finding was not correlated with degree of medial instability.
Anterior Cruciate Ligament ; Collateral Ligaments ; Humans ; Knee ; Ligaments ; Posterior Cruciate Ligament ; Research Personnel ; Rupture ; Tears

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Chromosome Aberrations*

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Blood Coagulation Factors* ; Fibrinogen*

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Blood Coagulation Factors* ; Fibrinogen*

Trichorrhexis nodosa(TN) denotes small node-like swelling with a loss of cuticle of the hair shaft through which the hair readily fractures. The basic cause of TN is mechanical or chemical trauma, and a contributing factor is an inherent weakness of the hair shaft. We report a case of localized TN in a 37-year-old male. He had an ovoid hair patch with multiple small white-gray dotted and stubby hairs localized to the right occipital scalp. TN is known to be the commonest of all hair shaft anomalies (Price, 1975). However TN is rarely reported, and there have been only four reports in Korean dermatological literature, to our knowledge, which might be due to underdiagnosis of this disorder. We postulated that diagnostic difficulty lies in the discrepancy between terminology and gross morphological findings.
Adult ; Fibrinogen ; Hair ; Humans ; Male ; Scalp

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Cytokines* ; Perforin* ; Shwartzman Phenomenon* ; Vibrio vulnificus* ; Vibrio*

BACKGROUND: CSF can be leaked from the nose or ear due to fractures, tumors or surgical procedures in the skull base region, and the threat of impending meningitis necessitates early identification of it. Since 2-transferrin occurs practically in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and not in other body fluid, its detection from the rhinorrhea or otorrhea can be used for the diagnosis of CSF leakage. We carried out immunofixation-silver stain (IF-SS) method for detection of 2-transferrin in the CSF in order to know optimal identification condition of specific cerebrogenic marker. METHODS: The fresh CSF sample was collected by spinal tapping. 2-Transferrin was estimated by quantifying the total transferrin by nephelomertry (Behring, Germany). 2-Transferrin of CSF was identified by electrophoresis using Titan gel high resolution protein system (Beckman, USA), immunofixation with anti-human transferrin antibody (Dako, Denmark) and then stained with silver nitrate. Serial dilutions of CSF were performed to know the detection limit of 2-transferrin. To know the influence of blood mixing, tests for mixed specimen of serum and hemolysate in CSF were performed. To evaluate the specimen storage condition, tests for different temperature and storage time were performed . RESULTS: By IF-SS method, identification limit of 2-transferrin was 0.5 mg/dL in 1:4 diluted CSF with distilled water. And 2-transferrin could be detected in condition of mixing serum protein (7.5 g/dL) or hemoglobin (13 g/dL) with CSF up to 6 : 4. At various sample storage condition, such as 37degrees C, room temperature, and 4degrees C, band intensity decreased abruptly after 1 day, and it was not detected 5 days later. Mean while, in -20degrees C and -70degrees C, 2-transferin band was detected after 10 days. CONCLUSIONS: IF-SS method was sufficiently sensitive and specific for invalidation by blood contamination, and seems to be used as effective identification of 2-transferrin in the CSF without sample concentration, less diagnostic test for CSF leakage.
Body Fluids ; Cerebrospinal Fluid* ; Diagnosis* ; Diagnostic Tests, Routine ; Ear ; Electrophoresis ; Limit of Detection ; Meningitis ; Nose ; Saturn ; Silver Nitrate ; Skull Base ; Spinal Puncture ; Transferrin* ; Water

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Blood Platelets* ; Humans ; Platelet Aggregation* ; Plateletpheresis* ; Tissue Donors*