No abstract available.
Cardiovascular Diseases* ; Echocardiography*

Complications of mitomycin C soaking method during pterygium surgery and its effect on recurrence rate were compared with postoperative use of topical mitomycin C. Sixty three patients(seventy three eyes) with primary pterygium received surgery with the bared sclera method. Thirty nine eyes randomly chosen were treated with cotton applicator soaked with 0.2mg/ml mitomycin C for 5 minutes after the excision of pterygium(soaking group). Thirty four eyes underwent the same surgical procedure and received topical 0.2mg/ml mitomycin C postoperatively, twice a day for five days(eye drop group). During the mean follow-up period of 13 months, recurrence rate was 15.4%(6 eyes) in soaking group and 20.6%(7 eyes) in eye drop group respectively. This difference was not statistically significant(p>0.5). There were no specific complications related to mitomycin C treatment in both groups during the follow-up periods. The soaking method of 0.2mg/ml mitomycin C was found as effective and safe as postoperative use of topical 0.2mg/ml mitomycin C for prevention of the recurrence of primary pterygium.
Follow-Up Studies ; Mitomycin* ; Pterygium* ; Recurrence ; Sclera

We evaluated median value and lower confidence limit of total serum IgE level in each age group of 1,493 pure atopic dermatitis patient without respiratory atopic diseases. The results were as follows . 1. The median value of total serum IgE level of each age group in patients with atopic dermatitis distributed from 56.5 IU/@Ll to 660It.J/C. The distributions of the median value of total serum IgE levels of total patients with atopic dermatitis, total male patients with atopic dermatitis, and total female patients with atopic dermatitis were 185 IU/C, 220 IUj'@C, and 165 IUj'C. There was no statistical significance of median value of total serum IgE level between mole patients and female patients. 2. The 95% and 99% lower confidence limit(one-sided) of total serum IgE level of ea.ch age group in patients with atopic dermatitis distributed from 32.6 IU /n4 to 287IU/v4 and from 31 IU/m0 to 202 IU4. The 95% lower confidence limit (one-sided) of total serum IgE level of total patients with atopic dermatitis, tatal male patients with atopic dermatitis, and. total female patients with atopic dermatitis were 170 II.J/m0, 185 IU,m/l, and 133 IUm/l. The 99% lower confidence limit.(one-sided) of total serum IgE level of total patient with atopic dermatitis, total male patient with atopic dermatitis, and total female patients with atopic dermatitis were 165 IU/ml, 180 IU/ml, and 125 IU/ml.
Dermatitis, Atopic* ; Female ; Humans ; Immunoglobulin E* ; Male

Collet-Sicard syndrome is one of the syndromes of the multiple lower cranial nerve palsies, characterized by unilateral paralysis of 9th through 12th cranial nerves. The present report describes a 34-year-old woman who had hoarseness, dysarthria, and loss of taste developed after febrile illness. Brain MRI, both T1WI and T2WI, showed high signal intensity in the left jugular foramen. Gd-GTPA contrast injection revealed thickening and enhancement of the left tentorium. Angiography disclosed nonvisualization of the left transverse and sigmoid sinus, and reconstruction of the left internal and external jugular vein by collaterals from the angular, facial, and posterior fossa veins. The patient improved spontaneously two months later. This is the first report of Collet-Sicard syndrome resulting from jugular vein thrombosis.
Adult ; Angiography ; Brain ; Colon, Sigmoid ; Cranial Nerve Diseases ; Cranial Nerves ; Dysarthria ; Female ; Hoarseness ; Humans ; Jugular Veins* ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Paralysis ; Thrombosis* ; Veins

Seven patients with average age of 15years and 6 months (range: 8 years and 11 months 25 years and 6 months) underwent forearm lengthening by callotasis. The indications for lengthening were shortening and/or deformity of the forearm due to exostosis of the distal ulna in three cases, growth disturbance due to physeal injury of the distal radius in three, congenital radial dislocation in one. Three had lengthening of the radius, three of the ulna and one of both the radius and the ulna. The average lengthening achieved was 3.8 cm (3.5 - 4.0) in radius, 2.7 cm (2.3 - 3.0) in ulna. Complications encountered were pin tract infection in two cases, nonunion in one and temporary nerve palsy in one. All of these complications were recovered completely without any residua. Retrospective review after average 41 months of follow-up (range: 36 to 78) showed satisfactory improvement in appearance and function. Callotasis was considered as one of the safe and reliable treatment methods for bone lengthening and deformity correction of the forearm.
Bone Lengthening ; Congenital Abnormalities* ; Dislocations ; Exostoses ; Follow-Up Studies ; Forearm* ; Humans ; Osteogenesis, Distraction* ; Paralysis ; Radius ; Retrospective Studies ; Ulna

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Spinal Cord* ; Urinary Bladder, Neurogenic*

The upper gastrointestinal bleeding is to be controlled and prevented for recurrent bleeding with several endoscopic methods. The sapphire contact probe in Nd: YAG laser photocoagulation was compared to conventional non-contact probe in hemostatic efficacy. (continue...)
Aluminum Oxide ; Arteries* ; Hemorrhage ; Lasers, Solid-State* ; Light Coagulation* ; Rabbits*

No abstract available.
Korea*

No abstract available.

OBJECTIVE: It is a widely accepted belief that paraspinal muscles tend to show spontaneous activity on needle electromyography early on in a radiculopathy and distal muscles become abnormal later on. But most studies have shown the limitations of using symptom duration when interpreting electrodiagnostic findings in radiculopathy. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between symptom duration and abnormal spontaneous activity in S1 radiculopathy confined to abnormal H-reflex. METHOD: A retrospective study that collected the informations on symptom duration and spontaneous activity in paraspinal muscle and gastrocnemius for 112 patients with S1 radiculopathy diagnosed by unilateral H-reflex abnormality was undertaken. RESULTS: Abnormal spontaneous activity in paraspinal muscle had shown a significant negative correlation with symptom duration, that is a tendency to decrease its expression over symptom duration. On the contrary abnormal spontaneous activity in gastrocnemius muscle was rare at first a few weeks and became to show after 7 weeks. Patients with symptom duration over 1 year had higher incidence of having no abnormal spontaneous activities both in paraspinal and gastrocnemius muscle. CONCLUSION: These results suggested that symptom duration had a potential role in the diagnosis of S1 radiculopathy when H-reflex were abnormal unilaterally.
Diagnosis ; Electromyography ; H-Reflex ; Humans ; Incidence ; Muscle, Skeletal ; Muscles ; Needles ; Paraspinal Muscles ; Radiculopathy* ; Retrospective Studies