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Abdominal Wall* ; Diagnosis* ; Fetus*

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Endoderm* ; Endodermal Sinus Tumor*

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Rhinoplasty*

Pityriasis rotunda is an uncommon chronic dermatosis characterized by multiple, round or oval, hyperpigmented or hypopigmented patches that have a fine scale on the trunk and extremities. Most of the cases reported predominantly occurred in Oriental and black patients in association with internal disease. However, in Caucasians it has been documented in healthy persons usually as a familial tendency. We report a case of pityriasis rotunda which showed familial occurrence and had no underlying disease.
Extremities ; Humans ; Pityriasis* ; Skin Diseases

BACKGROUND: Geriatric patients undergoing hip arthroplasty are generally considered to be at high risk for anesthesia and surgery. Thus, the evaluation of safe anesthetic methods for hip arthroplasty in geriatric patients is important and necessary. METHODS: 228 geriatrics, either sex, older than 65 years, who were performed hip arthroplasty from Mar. 1985 to Jun. 1995, were investigated for anesthetic techniques, postoperative complications and the other problems, retrospectively. According to the kinds of anesthetic techniques, the items including primary indication for operation, name of operation, blood loss, perioperative complications, time from the end of operation to the first analgesic requirement and frequency of analgesic requirements for postoperative 72 hours were analyzed. RESULTS: The mean age of the patients with caudal anesthesia was significantly higher than that with general inhalation anesthesia. The blood loss in patients with epidural anesthesia was significantly more than that in hypobaric spinal anesthesia. The most frequent perioperative complications were cardiovascular problems including hypotension, hypertension, arrythmias, and myocardial infarction. The numbers of analgesic requirement within the postoperative 72 hours was the lowest in epidural anesthesia. There was one postoperative fatal case, whose the cause of death was found to pulmonary thromboembolism by autopsy. CONCLUSIONS: This study suggested that there were many risks for anesthesia and operation in geriatric patients with hip arthroplasty, and the cardiovascular complications were the most frequent. Thus, for hip arthroplasty in geriatrics, the choice of optimal anesthetic techniques depending on the patients physical status and physicians skill should be emphasized with the proper perioperative anesthetic management.
Analgesia ; Anesthesia* ; Anesthesia, Caudal ; Anesthesia, Epidural ; Anesthesia, Inhalation ; Anesthesia, Spinal ; Arrhythmias, Cardiac ; Arthroplasty* ; Autopsy ; Cause of Death ; Geriatrics* ; Hip* ; Humans ; Hypertension ; Hypotension ; Myocardial Infarction ; Orthopedics ; Postoperative Complications ; Pulmonary Embolism ; Retrospective Studies*

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Pregnancy*

PURPOSE: To determine the necessity of site-specific bone mineral density(BMD) measurement and the difference between the BMD of the two femora using DXA in the evaluation of osteoporosis. MATERIALS & METHODS: Total BMD and regional BMD(Lumbar spine, femoral neck, Ward's area, intertrochanter area) were measured on seventy-eight healthy persons without previons diseases, and the statistical significance analyzed. RESULTS: Total BMD did not reliably reflect the site-specific BMD. There was a high correlation between BMD in opposing femora. Correlation coefficients between the femoral neck, Ward's area, trochanter area were 0. 939, 0.874 and 0.916 respectively. CONCLUSION: We conclude that a measuremnt of site-specific BMD is necessory because the total BMD can not reliably predict the regional BMD. The measurement of BMD in one femur can predict the BMD of the contralateral femur. If there is no history of femoral neck disease, unilateral BMD measurement is recommended for femoral evaluation.
Absorptiometry, Photon* ; Femur ; Femur Neck ; Humans ; Osteoporosis ; Spine

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Pulmonary Atelectasis*

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Glomus Tumor*

No abstract available.
Child* ; Hepatitis B, Chronic* ; Hepatitis, Chronic* ; Humans