No abstract available.
Liver Diseases* ; Liver*

No abstract available.
Humans ; Hypocalcemia* ; Infant, Newborn ; Prognosis*

Death by drowning is a major cause of unnatural death worldwide. It is therefore important to conduct forensic examination of immersed bodies following drowning, in order to determine the diagnosis of drowning, because no specific methods have been established thus far. Therefore, we performed a series of rat experiments to compare autopsy findings between seawater and fresh water drowning cases, which included the presence of pleural effusion and histologic findings of the lung. The results showed that the volume of pleural effusion increased in the seawater drowning group compared to the fresh water drowning group, and the total weight of lung was affected by the type of drowning medium and postmortem interval. However, histologic findings of the lung showed no significant difference between the 2 types of drowning mediums.
Animals ; Autopsy ; Drowning ; Fresh Water ; Lung ; Pleural Effusion ; Rats ; Seawater

In the following report, we describe the case of a rapidly skeletonized corpse discovered in late summer. On the first day of September, a 57-year-old man was found almost completely skeletonized on a hill behind his house. His body lay prone, accompanied by a brush cutter at the entrance to the graveyard where his friend's parents were buried. His cap, clothes, and rubber boots were all intact and undamaged. Upon autopsy, no definite abnormalities were identified except for an old linear fracture on the frontoparietal bone. According to his friends and neighbors, he had likely died 8 or 9 days prior to the discovery of his body.
Autopsy ; Cadaver ; Friends ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; Parents ; Postmortem Changes ; Rubber ; Skeleton*

No Abstract Available.
Adult* ; Capsulorhexis* ; Cataract* ; Follow-Up Studies* ; Humans

Ionizing radiation has brought powerful aids to medical practitioners, but it has also brought new and bewildering problems. Radiation in the form of systemically administered radionuclides or external radiation may produce such abnormal reactions in the musculoskeletal system as growth disturbances, myelofibrosis, radiation osteitis, necrosis of bone, exostosis, pathologic fracture, and on rare occasion malignant tumors. The incidence of postirradiation sarcoma was quite rare and there were some histologic hypes of postirradition sarcoma. Of them, incidence of osteosarcoma and fibrosarcoma is most common, although there is some difference between each reports. The authors have experienced recently two cases of postirradiation fibrosarcoma developed in sacrum. In one case, the patient was 55 years old female and the latent period was about 12 years. In another case, the patient was 67 years old female and the latent period was about 15 years. In these cases, they received radiation therapy due to cervical cancer of uterus. They had nerve roots compression symptoms and recieved operation of nerve roots decompression. The diagnosis was confirmed by core bone biopsy. A clinical analysis of these cases is to be reported with review of references.
Biopsy ; Decompression ; Diagnosis ; Exostoses ; Female ; Fibrosarcoma ; Fractures, Spontaneous ; Humans ; Incidence ; Musculoskeletal System ; Necrosis ; Osteitis ; Osteosarcoma ; Primary Myelofibrosis ; Radiation, Ionizing ; Radioisotopes ; Sacrum ; Sarcoma ; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms ; Uterus

No abstract available.
Animals ; Foot* ; Foot-and-Mouth Disease* ; Hand* ; Paralysis*

The hyperimmunoglobulin E syndrome is a primary immunodificiency disorder characterized by recurrent staphylococcal infections and markedly elevated serum IgE level. Clinical features are coarse face and severe infections of the skin-furunculosis or chronically pruritic dermatitis and sinopulmonary tract infection from infancy by coagulase positive Staphylococcus aureus, or Candida albicans etc. The patients's serum IgE level is elevated but the basic immunologic pathogenesis not fully understood. We have experienced a case of hyperimmunoglobulin E syndrome in a 26/12-year-old who had suffered from recurrent staphylococcal pneumonias and abscesses and chronically pruritic dermatitis from 1 month of age with elevated serum IgE level. A brief review of the related literature is presented.
Abscess ; Candida albicans ; Coagulase ; Dermatitis ; Immunoglobulin E ; Pneumonia, Staphylococcal ; Staphylococcal Infections ; Staphylococcus aureus

Oguchi's disease is an unusual form of congenital stationary night blindness that is characterized by a peculiar grey-white discoloration of the retina that gives a metallic sheen. After prolonged dark adaptation, the unusual fundus discoloration disappeared and the retina slowly reverted to its original metallic color after exposure to the light. A 20-year-old man was referred for study because of a complaint of night blindness since childhood. As results of diagnostic work up, especially based on typical ocular fundus finding, dark adaptometry and electrophysiologic studies of the retina the authors have diagnosed as a Oguchi's disease. We report this case with the review of the literature.
Dark Adaptation ; Humans ; Night Blindness ; Retina ; Young Adult

Small round cell tumors such as neuroblastoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, Ewing's tumor, malignant lymphoma and small cell carcinoma are often confused clinically and histologically. To clarify the similarites and differences and to get more information on the histogenesis among the small round cell tumors, we examined histological, immunohistochemical and ultrastructural features of ten cases of neuroblastomas, twenty Ewing's tumors, ten embryonal rhabdomyosarcomas and twelve small cell carcinomas in children and young adults. Antibodies against desmin, vimentin, cytokeratin, neuron-specific enolase, synaptophysin, neurofilament, S-100 protein, chromogranin and HBA 71 were used in biotin streptavidin procedures. The results of the immunohistochemical and electron microscopical examinations yielded virtually identical findings in each group as followings. 1) Among the twenty cases of Ewing's tumors, eighteen cases were positive in staining for HBA-71. The staining for HBA-71 was negative in neuroblastoma, embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma and small cell carcinoma. 2) Neuroblastomas had marked interdigitating cytoplasmic processes containing many microtubules and dense-core secretory granules, however, they were sparse and rare in Ewing's tumor. 3) Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma showed actin-myosin bundles. According to differentiation, well differentiated rhabdomyosarcoma exhibited Z-band materials and external lamina. 4) Neuroblastoma showed ultrastructural evidence of a neuronal differentiation, but neuronal differentration is a sparse and rare in Ewing's tumor. This ultrastructural feature strengthens the hypothesis that Ewing's tumor is derived not only from an undifferentiated neuroectodermal stem cell but from primitive cell of neuroectodermal origin.
Antibodies ; Biotin ; Carcinoma, Small Cell ; Child ; Cytoplasm ; Desmin ; Humans ; Immunohistochemistry ; Keratins ; Lymphoma ; Microtubules ; Neural Plate ; Neuroblastoma ; Neurons ; Phosphopyruvate Hydratase ; Rhabdomyosarcoma ; Rhabdomyosarcoma, Embryonal ; S100 Proteins ; Sarcoma, Ewing ; Secretory Vesicles ; Stem Cells ; Streptavidin ; Synaptophysin ; Vimentin ; Young Adult