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Adolescent* ; Humans ; Mothers* ; Psychotherapy, Brief*

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Checklist* ; Child ; Child Behavior* ; Child* ; Conduct Disorder* ; Humans

POEMS syndrome is an unusual plasma cell dyscrasia with multisystemie manifestations featuring polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopsthy, M protein and skin changes. We have seen a 49-year-old woman presenting with hyperpigmentation, hypertrichosis, hyperhidrosis, and taut thickened skin of the extremities as a skin manifestation of this syndrome. We review the literature and report a case.
Extremities ; Female ; Humans ; Hyperhidrosis ; Hyperpigmentation ; Hypertrichosis ; Middle Aged ; Paraproteinemias ; POEMS Syndrome* ; Polyneuropathies ; Skin ; Skin Manifestations

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Leiomyoma*

Up to now, it has been a prevailing concept that psychotherapy rather than pharmacotherpy is the main treatment modality for personality disorders. The use of medication to treat personality disorders has been derived from the recent confluence of anecdotal experience, a growing body of controlled studies and emerging evidence of the presence of psychobiological traits that may underlie personality disorders. Antipsychotics may be helpful for cluster A personality disorders, while antiserotonergic agents may be useful in improving mood and impulsivity for cluster B personality disorders. However data on the utility of antipsychotics and mood stabilizers are inconsistent. There have been very few studies done for cluster C personality disorders. The big problem lies in the fact that there is no consensus yet on the more fundamental areas of therapy such as classification of personality disorders, reliable measuring instruments, the relationship between axis I and axis II disorders, ruling out the effect of psychotherapy, and so on. This study reviewed the principal problems regarding the results of pharmacological treatment research of personality disorders in order to shed light on the future research directions in this area.
Antidepressive Agents ; Antipsychotic Agents ; Axis, Cervical Vertebra ; Classification ; Consensus ; Impulsive Behavior ; Personality Disorders* ; Psychotherapy ; Serotonin Antagonists

In spite of the long history of notice, research on the pharmacotherapy of body dysmorphic disorder is limited. No placebo-controlled, continuation, maintenance, or discontinuation studies have been published. But accumulated data and experiences in recent days enable us even roughly to set up a pharmacological treatment step for body dysmorphic disorder. In addition to the clinical aspect of body dysmorphic disorder and its relation to obsessive-compulsive disorder, this article reviewed recent researches and clinical experiences about the pharmacotheray issues like SRI treatment, augmented treatment strategy using buspirone or neuroleptics or others, clomipramine pulse-loaded intravenous therapy, and other treatment methods including ECT and brain surgery, mainly for the purpose of making helpful guidelines for the clinicians. Some tips about cognitive-behavior therapy and future research directions were also added.
Antipsychotic Agents ; Body Dysmorphic Disorders* ; Brain ; Buspirone ; Clomipramine ; Drug Therapy ; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

No abstract available.
Rhabdomyosarcoma* ; Urinary Bladder*

BACKGROUND: Transfusion-transmitted virus (TTV) and TTV-like mini virus (TLMV) are small DNA virus with single-stranded, closed circular, antisense genome infecting man. TTV and TLMV are trans-missible by transfusion. However there had been a few study about TTV prevalence and no study about prevalence in blood donors in Korea. There has been no study about the TTV and TLMV infection in blood products in Korea. The aim of this study was to gain the prevalence of two viruses in blood products. METHODS: A total of 150 plasma samples from blood products (each 50 units of Red blood cell, whole blood, and platelet concentrate) were tested. The samples are obtained from the segments of the blood products. TTV DNA was detected using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with two sets of primers (A set and B set) and TLMV DNA was detected using nested PCR with primer set C. RESULTS: TTV DNA was detected in 85.3% (128/150) of blood products. TLMV DNA was detected in 41.3% (62/150) of blood products. Either TTV or TLMV was detected in a total of 140 blood products (92.3%) and both TTV and TLMV were detected in 50 products (33.3%). CONCLUSIONS: The blood products are frequently infected with TTV and (or) TLMV in Korea and they can be transmissible by blood products with high probability.
Blood Donors ; Blood Platelets ; DNA ; DNA Viruses ; Erythrocytes ; Genome ; Humans ; Korea ; Plasma ; Polymerase Chain Reaction ; Prevalence ; Torque teno virus*

Repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a noninvasive treatment method recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of major depressive disorder in adults. Few clinical experiences with TMS or rTMS have been reported in children and adolescents. The clinical application of rTMS in children and adolescents should rest on data showing clinical efficacy and age-related safety. Despite these cautions, rTMS offers the advantage of noninvasive treatment and represents an alternative to classical drug treatment. We reviewed the effect of TMS and rTMS in child and adolescent psychiatric disorders.
Adolescent ; Adult ; Child ; Depressive Disorder, Major ; Humans ; Imidazoles ; Nitro Compounds ; Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation ; United States Food and Drug Administration

The cyto-histologic correlation and cytologic accuracy are reported in thirty cases of consecutive aspirated cells and their biopsied tissues of patients with clinical and neuroradiologic evidences of central nervous system tumors and other lesions investigated at the Pathology and Neurosurgery Department, Korea University Hospital, from Apr. 1987 to Apr. 1988. The series comprised of 17 benign and 12 malignant histopathologically verified brain neoplasms and 1 infectious lesion. In 78% of the cases, the cytologic diagnosis was concordant with the histologic diagnosis provided adequate sample was obtained. In 17 benign tumors, the diagnostic rate was 87% ; the diagnostic accuracy for 12 malignant CNS tumors was 63% cytologically. In almost all cases, differentiation of non-neoplastic lesion from neoplastic one and that of benign tumors from malignant ones were possible. Most discordance stemmed from failure to distinguish different types of malignant tumors. In meningioma, neurilemmoma, pituitary adenoma, and medulloblastoma, cytologic diagnostic accuracy was high, but germinoma, malignant ependymoma, and hemangioblastoma were difficult to diagnose by cytology alone.