The purpose of this study was to assess the comorbid axis-II disorders of obsessive compulsive disorder(OCD) patients and to investigate the relationship between symptoms of OCD and the comorbid personality traits. The subjects were 59 patients who met DSM-IV criteria for obsessive-compulsive disorder and 32 normal controls. All subjects completed Personality Disorder Questionnaire-IV(PDQ-IV). The patients completed Beck Depression Inventory(BDI) and Beck Anxiety Inventory(BAI), and were rated with Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale(YBOCS). The results were as follows. 1) The OCD patients showed significantly higher prevalence of avoidant, depresssive and borderline personality disorder(p<0.01) compared to controls. 2) The BAI score had significant effect on the avoidant personality score(t=3.23, p<0.003). The BDI score had significant effect on the depressive personality score(t=3.08, p=0.004). The YBOCS(t=2.10, p=0.043) and BAI(t=2.60, p=0.014)scores had significant effects on the borderline personality score. We found that OCD patients had higher prevalence of avoidant, depressive, and borderline personality disorders. We also found that obsessive-compulsive symptoms have significant effect on the severity of borderline personalty traits. We suggest that it would be very helpful to consider Axis-II disorders for managing patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Anxiety ; Borderline Personality Disorder ; Depression ; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ; Humans ; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder* ; Personality Disorders ; Prevalence

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Fistula* ; Stomach* ; Tuberculosis*

An extra-ovarian teratoma has been reported in a few cases of anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis. A 25-year-old woman presented with psychiatric symptoms. We did not find an ovarian teratoma on initial examination, and her initial simple chest X-ray was normal. We incidentally found an abnormality on follow-up simple chest X-ray and diagnosed an anterior mediastinal teratoma. Therefore, in patients with suspected anti-NMDAR encephalitis, even if simple chest X-ray is normal, chest computed tomography should be performed to investigate a hidden teratoma.
Adult ; Anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Encephalitis ; Encephalitis ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Teratoma ; Thorax

OBJECTIVE: We tried to see the prevalence and correlates of symptoms of depression in an adolescent population in Korea, and collected the basal data for mental health promotion of adolescents. METHOD: We sampled 2,203 adolescents among 71,102 adolescents living in Puchon City in Korea by the randomized clustered sampling method. The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale(CES-D) was used to measure depressive symptoms. The measurements were conducted through visiting schools. Of the 2,203 adolescents(aged 13 to 18) who were sampled, 1,972 persons completed CES-D and sociodemographic questions. The response rate was 89.5%. RESULT: 1) The prevalence rate of 'probable' depressive symptoms with cutoff point 16 was 34.3% in the boys and 47.5% in the girls. 2) The prevalence rate of 'definite' depression symptoms with cutoff point 25 was 17.4% in the boys and 20.6% in the girls. 3) We could not find any meaningful difference in the average of CES-D from the districts where they live, the course of their education, and their religions. 4) We used the logistic regression analysis to find the risk factor for adolescent depression in these samples. Among the variables of sex, age, economic status considered by self, family structure, satisfaction with school degree, it was most important risk factor in adolescent depression to dissatisfy with their school degrees. Compared it with fully satisfied group, the odds ratio was 8.850. The group of mid to low socioeconomic status had the odds ratio 2.007 compared with high socioeconomic status. The girls had the odds ratio 1.307 compared with the boys. 5) The male versus female ratio was 1:1.38 in the total students and 1:1.88 in the middle school students, and 1:1.13 in the high school students. The male versus female ratio was relatively low in the high school students. It was the result of the high prevalence of depressive symptoms in the high school boys, and it was due to the large burden to their school degrees. CONCLUSION: The depressive symptoms checked by CES-D were very common among adolescents in Korean urban area. The prevalence of depressive symptoms was 34.3% in the boys and 47.5% in the girls. The result that male versus female ratio was relatively low in the high school adolescents, and the group that were dissatisfied with the school degrees had high risk of depressive symptoms, revealed that the students had large burden to their school degrees and so they needed special concerns.
Adolescent* ; Depression* ; Education ; Epidemiologic Studies ; Female ; Gyeonggi-do ; Humans ; Korea* ; Logistic Models ; Male ; Mental Health ; Odds Ratio ; Prevalence* ; Risk Factors ; Social Class

Positive identification of human body remains is one of the most important tasks in mass disaster management. In general, anthropometric studies of long bones help to take informations such as race, gender, age, and stature of an individual. The previous reports estimated the stature from the femur length or from its fragments. One hundred ninety five (male 120, female 75) human bodies were examined. We measured 11 items which related breadth and length of femur. The highest correlation coefficients showed in the distance from most proximal point of intercondylar fossa to midpoint of lesser trochanter (IFLM) and distance from most proximal point of intercondylar fossa to most proximal point of greater trochanter (IFGP). The regression formulae were obtained from the various measurement of the fragmentary femur. With known values, the expected maximum femoral length was as follows. When using IFLM, maximum femoral length (male) = 21.788+/-1.278*IFLM+/-9.714 maximum femoral length (female) = 33.892+/-1.224*IFLM+/-11.311 maximum femoral length (combined) = 10.201+/-1.310*IFLM+/-6.746 When using IFGP, maximum femoral length (male) = 1.162*IFGP-8.770+/-8.882 maximum femoral length (female) = 1.117*IFGP+/-7.265+/-13.604 maximum femoral length (combined) = 1.149*IFGP-3.860+/-5.827 Consequently, these formulae are useful to persume the maximal length of femur for the unidentified fragments of femur in Korean.
Continental Population Groups ; Disasters ; Female ; Femur* ; Human Body ; Humans

The purpose of this research is to establish metric standards for the determination of sex from the upper limb bones of Korean. We took a set of eleven measurements on each of 175 right sides of adult skeletons chosen at Korean sample. Classification accuracy dropped only one or two individuals when only vertical head diameter of humerus is used. Variables in relation with maximal length were less accurate than head diameter of humerus. Two variables were selected by the stepwise procedure: maximal length of humerus, vertical head diameter of humerus. The combined accuracy was 87%. This study of modern Korean skeletons underscores the need for population-specific techniques, not only for medicolegal investigations, but also for the study of population affinities and factors affecting bone configurations.
Adult ; Classification ; Head ; Humans ; Humerus ; Skeleton ; Upper Extremity*

PURPOSE: A solid pseudopapillary tumor (SPT) is a rare pancreatic neoplasm, with low malignant potential, which tends to occur predominantly in younger females. Most patients are diagnosed due to the abdominal pain or the large palpable abdominal mass. The treatment is surgical resection, using either enucleation or more radical procedures. Only a few cases of SPT have been reported; therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinicopathological characteristics and prognosis after surgical resection of this rare type of tumor. METHODS: In this paper, twelve cases of SPT, treated at the Department of Surgery, Chonnam National University Hospital, between 1994 and 2003, are presented. RESULTS: 10 females, with a mean age of 32.2 years, ranging from 14 to 48, and 2 males, aged 15 and 32, were diagnosed. The tumors were large, with a mean resected diameter of 7 cm, had cystic degene rations between the solid areas, and were distributed in the head (7 cases) and the body-tail (5 cases) of the pancreas. Immunohistochemical studies were performed in 7 patients, which revealed the majority of the cases to be a-1 antitrypsin and neuron specific enolase (NSE) positive. The surgical managements of the tumors included enucleation (6 cases) or more radical procedures, such as a distal pancreatectomy (5 cases) and pancreaticoduodenectomy (1 case). There was no recurrence after the complete surgical resection. CONCLUSION: The mainstay of treatment in patient with a SPT is surgical resection, after which the prognosis was favorable.
Abdominal Pain ; Female ; Head ; Humans ; Jeollanam-do ; Male ; Pancreas* ; Pancreatectomy ; Pancreatic Neoplasms ; Pancreaticoduodenectomy ; Phosphopyruvate Hydratase ; Prognosis ; Recurrence

OBJECTIVE: This study was undertaken to review the disease course, clinical and laboratory manifestations, prognosis and treatment of adult onset Still s disease (AOSD) in Korea. METHODS: Thirty-two patients with AOSD were enrolled from 1986 to 1997 in Hanyang University Hospital. Diagnosis of AOSD was based on the criteria proposed by Yamaguchi. We classified the disease course into self-limited, inter mittent, or chronic disease course. RESULTS: Twenty-four (75%) patients were female. Skin rash occurred in 28 (88%) patients, lymphadenopathy in 8 (25%), hepatomegaly in 4 (13%), and pericarditis in 2 (6%) out of 32 patients. The most commonly affected joints were knee joints (88%). Elevated LDH was seen in 18 (60%) patients and decreased CK in 17 (61%) patients. Rheumatoid factor was detected in 4 (13%) patients and ANA in 12 (38%) patients. Anemia (Hb < 10 g/dL) was seen in 13 (41%) patients and hypoalbuminemia (<3. 5 g/dL) in 14 (52%) patients. Elevated ferritin (300 ng/mL) level was seen in 23 (79%) patients. Twenty-five (78%) patients had elevated serum transaminase. Bone marrow studies were performed in 16 patients. Nine out of 16 patients showed hyperplasia of the myeloid series and 2 patients displayed the features of a hemophagocytic syndrome. The mean duration of follow up of 32 patients was 32 months (range 3- 108). Eight (27%) patients had a self-limited, 9 (30%) an intermittent, and 13 (43%) a chronic disease course. The hypoalbuminemia was significantly associated with an "intermittent or chronic disease group" (p<0. 05). Thirty-two patients received systemic corticosteroids and 21 patients received single or combination of disease modifying antirheumatic drugs. CONCLUSION: We found that hypoalbuminemia at presentation was significantly associated with an unfavorable outcome, intermittent or chronic disease group. The clinical manifestations and disease course of AOSD in Korea were similar to those previously reported in other countries except significantly lower incidence of lymphadenopathy, hepatomegaly, and pericarditis.
Adrenal Cortex Hormones ; Adult* ; Anemia ; Antirheumatic Agents ; Bone Marrow ; Chronic Disease ; Diagnosis ; Exanthema ; Female ; Ferritins ; Follow-Up Studies ; Hepatomegaly ; Humans ; Hyperplasia ; Hypoalbuminemia ; Incidence ; Joints ; Knee Joint ; Korea* ; Lymphatic Diseases ; Lymphohistiocytosis, Hemophagocytic ; Pericarditis ; Prognosis ; Rheumatoid Factor ; Still's Disease, Adult-Onset*

PURPOSE: Our goal for this study was to prospectively evaluate the functional & structural outcomes, by means of CT arthroscopy, of arthroscopic double-row fixation for treating rotator cuff tear. We also attempted to determine the variants that affect the functional & structural outcomes. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Twenty seven consecutive patients underwent arthroscopic rotator cuff repair with double-row fixation. The average age at the time of the operation was fifty six years. The preoperative and postoperative examinations consisted of determining the Constant score, the score for the visual analogue scale for pain, the UCLA score, the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES) score, as well as a full physical examination of the shoulder. Preoperative MR arthrography was used to evaluate the integrity and atrophy of the rotator cuff. We measured the intraoperative tear size in the sagittal and coronal planes. Postoperative CT arthrography was used at one year postoperatively to evaluate the integrity and atrophy of the repaired tendons and muscles. RESULTS: Preoperative MR arthrography revealed an average 29.22 mm tear size in the sagittal plane and an average 22.72 mm tear size in the coronal plane. Twelve cases of supraspinatus muscle atrophy and two cases of infraspinatus atrophy were observed on the preoperative MR arthrography. The average clinical outcome scores all significantly improved at the time of follow-up. At a mean of one year postoperatively, CT arthrography revealed 48.1% of the shoulders had healed, 11.1% showed incomplete healing and 40.7% showed retear of the repaired tendon. CONCLUSION: Arthroscopic double-row repair can result in improved clinical outcomes and good patient satisfaction. However, the problems about how to enhance healing of the repaired tendon still remain.
Arthrography ; Arthroscopy ; Atrophy ; Elbow ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Muscular Atrophy ; Patient Satisfaction ; Physical Examination ; Prospective Studies ; Rotator Cuff ; Shoulder ; Tendons

Fetal intussusception is not common and the underlying mechanism triggering the event is not known at present. There are few reports of successful diagnosis in fetus with prenatal ultrasongraphy. It may be detected by meconium peritonitis. Meconium peritonitis is a nonbacterial foreign body reaction or chemical inflammation by intestinal perforation result from intestianl atresia, intussusception and fetal bowel obstruction. Recently we experienced a 33+1 weeks of gestational fetus with fetal intussusception who had prenatal ultrasonographic detection with meconium peritonitis, and the infant was underwent postnatal laparotomy. We present this case with a brief review of literature.
Diagnosis ; Fetus ; Foreign-Body Reaction ; Humans ; Infant ; Inflammation ; Intestinal Perforation ; Intussusception* ; Laparotomy ; Meconium ; Peritonitis ; Prenatal Diagnosis*