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Hyperplasia* ; Melanoma*

Basal cell carcinomas usually arise from the epidermis and show some epidermal connections. It is very unusual that basal celi carcinomas occur as subderrnal mass without epidermal connections. A 51 year-old female h;d an asymptomatic skin colored indurated plaque with linear old scar on the left side of nose fcr about 20 years. She had had a tumor that supposed to be a epidermal cyst, on the same site and the lesion was excised about 20 years ago. We performed the punch biopsy on her first visit which revealed hypertrophic scar. She was treated with intralesional injection of triamcinolone acetonide to reduce the size of hypertrophic scar. However, the lesion had not been reduced. She underwent the surgery to remove the scar at plastic surgery and the excisional biopsy showed a subdermal basal cell carcinoma. We recommend that the newly developed skin tumor in the pre-excised region should be required excisional biopsy instead of punch and close observation
Biopsy ; Carcinoma, Basal Cell* ; Cicatrix ; Cicatrix, Hypertrophic ; Epidermal Cyst ; Epidermis ; Female ; Humans ; Injections, Intralesional ; Middle Aged ; Nose ; Skin ; Surgery, Plastic ; Triamcinolone Acetonide

Wilson's disease is an autosomal recessive disorder of abnormal copper metabolism. Although dysphagia is a common complaint of patients with Wilson's disease and pneumonia is an important cause of death in these patients, management of swallowing function has rarely been reported in the context of Wilson's disease. Hence, we report a case of Wilson's disease presenting with dysphagia. A 33-year-old man visited our hospital with a complaint of difficulty in swallowing, since about last 7 years and which had worsened since the last 2-3 months. He was diagnosed with Wilson's disease about 13 years ago. On the initial VFSS, reduced hyoid bone movement, impaired epiglottic movement and moderate amount of residue in the valleculae during the pharyngeal phase were noted. After 10 sessions of neuromuscular electrical stimulation for 1 hour per day, decreased amount of residue was observed in the valleculae during the pharyngeal phase on the follow-up VFSS.
Adult ; Cause of Death ; Copper ; Deglutition ; Deglutition Disorders ; Electric Stimulation ; Electric Stimulation Therapy ; Follow-Up Studies ; Hepatolenticular Degeneration ; Humans ; Hyoid Bone ; Pneumonia

Wilson's disease is an autosomal recessive disorder of abnormal copper metabolism. Although dysphagia is a common complaint of patients with Wilson's disease and pneumonia is an important cause of death in these patients, management of swallowing function has rarely been reported in the context of Wilson's disease. Hence, we report a case of Wilson's disease presenting with dysphagia. A 33-year-old man visited our hospital with a complaint of difficulty in swallowing, since about last 7 years and which had worsened since the last 2-3 months. He was diagnosed with Wilson's disease about 13 years ago. On the initial VFSS, reduced hyoid bone movement, impaired epiglottic movement and moderate amount of residue in the valleculae during the pharyngeal phase were noted. After 10 sessions of neuromuscular electrical stimulation for 1 hour per day, decreased amount of residue was observed in the valleculae during the pharyngeal phase on the follow-up VFSS.
Adult ; Cause of Death ; Copper ; Deglutition ; Deglutition Disorders ; Electric Stimulation ; Electric Stimulation Therapy ; Follow-Up Studies ; Hepatolenticular Degeneration ; Humans ; Hyoid Bone ; Pneumonia

The goal of this study was to evaluate the sonographic findings of thyroid metastases arising from non-thyroid primaries. The study over a 5-year period comprised nine patients who had histopathologically proven metastatic disease to the thyroid. Ultrasonography was available in all cases. Ultrasound-guided needle aspiration was performed on 10 suspected nodules as determined by ultrasound. The Ultrasonographic findings were analyzed in two different ways. The first analysis included only those nodules biopsed, and the second analysis included all the nodules, biopsed and non- biopsed. The primary neoplasms were breast carcinoma (n=6), uterine leiomyosarcoma (n=1), cervical carcinoma (n=1), and nasopharyngeal carcinoma (n=1). Excluding 2 nodules, the 8 remaining metastatic nodules exhibited ill-defined hypoechoic character with heterogeneous texture. The other two nodules showed relatively circumscribed iso- or hypo-echoic character with cystic portion. From the analysis of ultrasonographic findings including all thyroid nodules irrespective of pathologic proof, 7 cases - excluding the 2 cases from the 9 cases - showed unilateral or bilateral multiple nodules suspected of metastasis. There was no evidence of microcalcification in any thyroid nodules. In conclusion, the sonographic findings of the thyroid metastatic nodules were not specific, but unilateral or bilateral multiple suspected thyroid nodules without evidence of microcalcification may be suggestive of metastatic nodules among patients with a known primary non-thyroidal tumor.
Adult ; Female ; Human ; Middle Age ; Retrospective Studies ; Thyroid Neoplasms/pathology/*secondary/*ultrasonography

Ethylene glycol is a sweet-tasting liquid with industrial use as a solvent or as a starting reagent in chemical processes. Physicians are familiar with ethylene glycol because it is the major component of many antifreeze solutions and is taken in suicide attempts or, more often inadvertency. its metabolites may cause severe intoxication. Unfortunately, its metabolites are highly toxic and require rapid treatment Treatment involves correction of metabolic acidosis, ethanol administration and enhancement of elimination. The most commonly used elimination technique is hemodialysis We describe an 21-year-old man with acute renal failure due to ingestion of antifreeze that contained ethylene glycol. He was transferred to our hospital because of aggressive management The recovery of our patient with severe ethylene glycol intoxication illustrates that aggressive and early treatment can prevent mortality and morbidity.
Acidosis ; Acute Kidney Injury* ; Chemical Processes ; Eating ; Ethanol ; Ethylene Glycol* ; Humans ; Mortality ; Renal Dialysis ; Suicide ; Young Adult

PURPOSE: The recently developed method of rapid immunohistochemistry (IHC) was applied to the intraoperative examination of sentinel lymph node (SLN) because as their routine frozen-section examination is liable to yield a false-negative results. This study is devoted to establish a reliable protocol for rapid IHC of SLN. METHODS: Between August 2004 and April 2005 a retrospective study was performed. SLNs from 50 breast cancer patients with clinically negative SLN were examined intraoperatively using hematoxylin-eosin (H&E) stain and immunostain for cytokeratin by rapid IHC assay. After examination of the frozen section, the SLNs were paraffin embedded and serially sectioned at 5 micrometer intervals. RESULTS: The median age and tumor size of the patients was 61.0 years and 1.4 cm (6% Tis, 70% T1, and 24% T2), respectively. The total number of dissected SLN was 112, with a mean of 2.2 (range, 1~4) SLNs per patient. Seven SLNs were found to be positive from metastasis in permanent pathological sections. Of these, 5 were stained by both intraoperative rapid IHC and H&E stain while one was not stained at all. The remaining SLN was initially stained with only the rapid IHC assay. The mean turn around time of the rapid IHC was less than 20 minutes, with sensitivity, true negative value, true positive values and accuracy of 85.7, 99.1, 100, and 99.1% respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The rapid IHC was a very sensitive and rapid technique for the intraoperative detection of metastatic involvement of SLNs, whitch may be helpful at increasing the accuracy of detecting the micro-metastasis of sentinel lymph nodes during an operation.
Breast Neoplasms* ; Breast* ; Frozen Sections ; Humans ; Immunohistochemistry* ; Keratins ; Lymph Nodes* ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Neoplasm Micrometastasis ; Paraffin ; Retrospective Studies

OBJECTIVE: To determine the correlation between the physical examination and the computed tomography of femoral anteversion and tibial internal torsion. METHOD: The angle of internal and external rotation of hip for femoral anteversion and thigh-foot angle for tibial internal torsion were measured by a rehabilitation physician for 116 young children with toe in gait. Within a week after the physical examination, the angle of femoral anteversion and tibial internal torsion were measured by computed tomography for comparison. RESULTS: Two-hundred thirty-two lower limbs of 116 children (64 girls and 52 boys) included in this study whose mean age was 6.4+/-2.7 years for girls and 6.8+/-2.8 years for boys. The Pearson correlation coefficient between the angle of internal rotation of the hip and the femoral anteversion measured by computed tomography showed 0.62 in right side and 0.55 in left side, an indication of significant correlation (p<0.01). The Pearson correlation coefficient between the thigh-foot angle and the tibial internal torsion measured by computed tomography showed 0.50 in right side, 0.42 in left side, an indication of significant correlation (p<0.01). CONCLUSION: Children with toe-in gauts showed a significant correlation between finding of physical exam (i.e. TFA and femoral internal torsion angle) and those of CT omages (i.e. tibial torsion angle and femoral torsion angle).
Child ; Femur ; Gait ; Hip ; Humans ; Lower Extremity ; Physical Examination ; Tibia ; Toes

Replication-independent incorporation of variant histone H3.3 has a profound impact on chromatin function and numerous cellular processes, including the differentiation of muscle cells. The histone chaperone HIRA and H3.3 have essential roles in MyoD regulation during myoblast differentiation. However, the precise mechanism that determines the onset of H3.3 deposition in response to differentiation signals is unclear. Here we show that HIRA is phosphorylated by Akt kinase, an important signaling modulator in muscle cells. By generating a phosphospecific antibody, we found that a significant amount of HIRA was phosphorylated in myoblasts. The phosphorylation level of HIRA and the occupancy of phosphorylated protein on muscle genes gradually decreased during cellular differentiation. Remarkably, the forced expression of the phosphomimic form of HIRA resulted in reduced H3.3 deposition and suppressed the activation of muscle genes in myotubes. Our data show that HIRA phosphorylation limits the expression of myogenic genes, while the dephosphorylation of HIRA is required for proficient H3.3 deposition and gene activation, demonstrating that the phosphorylation switch is exploited to modulate HIRA/H3.3-mediated muscle gene regulation during myogenesis.
Antibodies, Phospho-Specific ; Chromatin ; Histones* ; Muscle Cells* ; Muscle Development ; Muscle Fibers, Skeletal ; Myoblasts ; Phosphorylation* ; Phosphotransferases ; Transcriptional Activation

BACKGROUND: The TRUE test is a commercially available ready-to-apply patch test widely used in many countries, but no large-scale study is available on the TRUE test in Korea. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to analyze the type, frequency, and changes in the common contact allergens in Korea using the TRUE test. METHODS: From January 2009 to March 2010, TRUE tests were performed on patients with contact dermatitis at the Departments of Dermatology of 15 hospitals. The epidemiological findings of patients, and the results of the patch tests were analyzed. RESULTS: In total, 795 patch tested cases (246 males, 549 females) were compiled and analyzed. The oldest age distribution was the third decade in both males and females, and housewives and office-workers were the most common jobs, comprising 29.7% and 19.8% of the occupations, respectively. Overall, 65.1% of patients had at least one positive reaction, and the most common allergens were nickel sulfate (34.1%), thimerosal (12.6%), cobalt chloride (11.1%), and p-phenylenediamine (8.4%), in order of frequency. A univariate analysis of multiple variables including age, gender, occupation, and affected sites was conducted and a comparison with a previous multicenter study was also analyzed. CONCLUSION: These results provide the basis for use of the TRUE test in patients with contact dermatitis in Korea.
Age Distribution ; Allergens ; Cobalt ; Dermatitis, Contact ; Dermatology ; Female ; Humans ; Korea ; Male ; Nickel ; Occupations ; Patch Tests ; Phenylenediamines ; Thimerosal