PURPOSE: lntra-arterial cisplatin infusion chemotherapy delivers higher concentration of this therapeutic agent to the limited area of cervical carcinoma. We evaluated the role of endorectal ultrasonography (ERUS) in the analysis of the tumor response to this chemotherapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: ERUS was done in 20 patients of cervical carcinomas limited to the pelvis by rotating the 5 UHz linear arraytransducer along the reference sagittal plane in the middle of uterine cervix and vagina. We examined and compared the change of tumor size and morphology on ER US, before, during and after intra-arterial cisplatin (50 mg/m2) chemotherapy through internal lilac artery near uterine arterial branching. Colposcopy and radical hysterectomy with pelvic lymphadenectomy were performed in all patients, and ERUS findingswere compared with those findings. RESULTS: ERUS correlated well with surgery in the estimation of preoperative tumor size and morphology. Tumor reduction rate on ERUS (100-the largest area of the preoperative tumor/the largest area of the initial tumor) was as follows: more than 75% decrease of the original size in 3 patients, 75% -50% in 6 patients, 50%-25% in 8 patients, and less than 25% in 3 patients. Hyperechoic reflecting areas were noted in 4 patients, which corresponded to gaseous necrosis on postoperative pathology. CONCLUSION: ERUS is helpful to evaluate the morphologic change of cervical carcinoma limited tothe pelvis in intra-arterial cisplatin chemotherapy.
Arteries ; Cervix Uteri ; Cisplatin* ; Colposcopy ; Drug Therapy* ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies* ; Humans ; Hysterectomy ; Lymph Node Excision ; Necrosis ; Pathology ; Pelvis ; Ultrasonography* ; Vagina

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Lithotripsy*

No abstract available.
Brain Stem* ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn* ; Phototherapy*

Verrucous carcinoma of the oral cavity is a rare tumor representing 4.5-9.0% of oral squamous tumors. Involvement of the lip is less common within the oral cavity. It presents as a slowly enlarging, exophytic warty growth with extensive local invasion, though well-differentiated and rarely metastaticl. We herein repart a case of verrucous carcinoma on the lower lip in a 31-year-old man.
Adult ; Carcinoma, Verrucous* ; Humans ; Lip* ; Mouth

The diagnosis of a Battered Child Syndrome is made by the pediatrician, surgeon and the radiologist because almost parents deny the diagnosis or refuse to answer the doctor's questions. The imaging modalities play a key role in the investigation and documentation of the battered child syndrome, because of the high frequency of the typical skeletal lesion. Although physical abuse is denied by parents, the recognition of this entity is possible by the primary diagnostic imaging study in the suspected child abuse. The imaging studies are either a bone scan and x-ray series or a complete radiolographic skeletal survey by X-ray series. In an expected intracranial injury, a CT scan of the head is mandatory We experienced a case of Battered Child Syndrome in a 6 month-old male infant who had subdural hemorrhage and fractures of skull and ribs in different stages of healing and repair. The brief review of the literature was made.
Battered Child Syndrome* ; Child ; Child Abuse ; Diagnosis ; Diagnostic Imaging ; Head ; Hematoma, Subdural* ; Humans ; Infant ; Male ; Parents ; Ribs ; Skull ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed

No abstract available.
Blood Group Incompatibility* ; Bromelains*

As the incidence of acute myocardial infarction been increasing with prolongation of life spans, improvement in foods and life styles in Korea, rapid diagnosis and treatment is critical in survival of acute myocardial infarction patient. Most of the acute myocardial infarction result from atherosclerotic plaque forming thrombus and occlusion of coronary artery. Because early thrombolytic therapy is important to maintain the left ventricular function and survival rate, there have been many trials to reperfuse the occluded coronary artery. We have studied the many aspects of acute myocardial infarction such as sex, age, infarction site, chief complaints, change of ECG, change of serum enzyme, time delay on emergency room arrival, and compared the effectiveness of thrombolytic therapy. Total number of patient was 212, and males were 141(66.5%) and females were 71(33.5%). The most common infarction site was ant, fuel wall(102 cases,48%)of the heart and the most common chief complaint was chest pain(204 cases,97%). Among the 106 patients who received thrombolytic therapy, 101 patients(95%) had survived and 5 patients(5%) had died. Among the 64 patients who didn't receive thrombolytic therapy, 56 patients (87.5%) were alived and 8 patients(12.5%) were dead.
Ants ; Coronary Vessels ; Diagnosis* ; Electrocardiography ; Emergency Service, Hospital ; Female ; Heart ; Humans ; Incidence ; Infarction ; Korea ; Life Style ; Life Support Care ; Male ; Myocardial Infarction* ; Plaque, Atherosclerotic ; Survival Rate ; Thorax ; Thrombolytic Therapy ; Thrombosis ; Ventricular Function, Left

The present work was to observe the wormicidal effects of the external mucous substance of Carassius carassius and Pseudorasbora parva on cercaria, metacercaria (liberating) and adult of Clonorchis sinensis. The mucous substance which was extracted by ether was separated into various spots on the silica gel thin layer chromatography and separated into various fractions in the silica gel column chromatography, using petroleum ether(30 percent) and chloroform(70 percent) as solvent. R(f) 0.952 value of the silica gel thin layer chromatography and the first fraction (reddish yellow) frorn the silica gel column chromatography of the ether extracts from C. carassius had the wormicidal effect on all of the developing stages of C. sinensis. Cercaria was killed within 14 minutes, metacercaria within 27 minutes and adult 2.5 hours by the first fraction. But in the normal saline solution (control) and in the other fraction, cercaria and metacercaria were alive more than 24 hours and adult more than 72 hours. The extracts from the mucous substance of P. parva that is well penetrated by cercaria had no wormicidal effect on them.
parasitology-helminth-trematoda ; clonorchiasis-Clnorchis sinensis ; metacercaria ; Carassius carassius ; Pseudorasbora parva ; mucous substance ; chromatography

No abstract available.
Meningitis* ; Mycoplasma pneumoniae* ; Mycoplasma* ; Pneumonia* ; Pneumonia, Mycoplasma*

BACKGROUND: A lots of fires were happened every years. And then, the many peoples have died because of foe. It is important to plane for initial field emergency management that the major cause of death and injury type is analysed by large scaled fire. METHOD: We have analysed the fire victims by large scaled fire from Jan. 1995 to Dec. 1995 in Korea. We analysed systemic factors, environmental factors, patient factors which was acquired from medical records and interviews with victims, victim's famaly, rescuer. RESULT: The total number of victims are 130 and the mortality rate is 61.5% (80 patients). The major injury and cause of death were inhalation injury and trauma. The injury type of fire victims are 19 cases of inhalation injury, 13 cases of laceration,5 cases of burn,5 cases of contusion,4 cases of blephaloconjunctivitis. In fire deaths, the 78 victims (97.5%) were death associated with the gas inhalation, and the only 2 fire deaths were due to trauma. This result of the cause of death was higher inhalation injury than previously reported literature because most fires of our study was happened at the closed-maze area. CONCLUSION: When the fee was happened at closed-maze area, many victims foiled to escape the space because of smoke, toxic inhalants from combustible interior decoration, and then were death.
Cause of Death ; Emergencies* ; Emergency Treatment* ; Fees and Charges ; Fires* ; Humans ; Inhalation ; Korea ; Medical Records ; Mortality ; Smoke ; United Nations