No abstract available.
Drug Therapy* ; Humans

The infantile cortical hyperostosis is relatively rare unknown cause disease. After the first report of a case of this was that of caffey in 1945, this disease is increasing in frequency. This disease characterized by subperiosteal new bone formation on various bone, leukocytosis, increased Erythrocyte Seidmentation Rate, fever. We experienced two cases of this and reported them in this paper with a brief review of tbe literature.
Erythrocytes ; Fever ; Hyperostosis, Cortical, Congenital ; Leukocytosis ; Osteogenesis

PURPOSE: This research is to know whether aroma foot massage has influence on the relief of anxiety and pain during colonoscopy under conscious sedation. METHOD: This research was designed as a quasi-experiment of non-equivalent control group pretest-posttest. Data were collected from April 1 2005 to August 30 2005. The subjects were divided into three groups (control group, foot massage group and aroma foot massage group) with 30 persons each. Anxiety was evaluated with Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), blood pressure and pulse. Pain response was measured with VAS and non-verbal pain behavior score. Sleep satisfaction was measured with a graphic rating scale. Data were analyzed through Chi-square test, t-test and repeated measure ANOVA. RESULTS: Systolic blood pressure, pulse, subjective anxiety and pain scores from the aroma foot massage group decreased significantly. Sleep satisfaction score of the aroma foot massage group increased significantly. Diastolic blood pressure from the aroma foot massage group did not decrease. CONCLUSION: The results show that aroma foot massage with refined oils can increase sleep satisfaction and decrease anxiety and pain during colonoscopy under conscious sedation.
Anxiety* ; Blood Pressure ; Colonoscopy* ; Conscious Sedation* ; Foot* ; Humans ; Massage* ; Oils

The authors have reviewed 16 cases of the fracture of the femoral neck in children which were treated at Pusan Gospel Hospital during the period of 5 years from March 1975 to January 1980. 12 of the 16 fractures of femoral neck had sustained the injury by automobile accidents. The ratio between boy and girl was 1.6:1. There were five Type-II (Transcervical), nine Type-III (Cervicotrochanteric) and two Type-IV (In-tertrochanteric) femoral fractures by Delbets classiflcation. 2. cases of undisplaced and displaced Type-IV were treated with abduction plaster spics cast. 14 cases, which were displced and had associated injury, were reduced by closed reduction and internal fixation with hagie pin, cortical screw and cancellous screw under general anesthesia. 11 of 16 cases were followed for 7 months to 29 months, average 14 months. The results were rated according to criterias of the Ratliff. Satisfactory results were obtained in 9 cases and those of 5 cases were treated by closed reduction and internal fixation wlth cancellous screw. Pain was developed in a Type-II and Type-II due to loosening of metal devices for internal fixation.
Anesthesia, General ; Automobiles ; Busan ; Child ; Female ; Femoral Fractures ; Femur Neck ; Humans ; Male ; Spine

Many factors including social rejection, family problems, loss of educational opportunity, fear, prejudice and ignorance, compound the inherent paychologicaI stress of leprosy. In ligh.t of these problems this present study was undertaken to evaluate the psychologica.l status of 1cprosy patients. The subjects of the present study were 220 patients staying at home and 304 control people living in similar isolated areas to resettlemert villages. A self reprort symptom inventory,, SCL--90 symptom check list 90) was used and the group", were analysed and compand by many factors. The results of this study are follows. -countinue-
Humans ; Leprosy* ; Prejudice ; Social Distance

No abstract available.
Hypopharyngeal Neoplasms*

Based on our experience with 23 frontotemporal reconstructions performed, this paper attempts to provide guidelines for appropriate selection among the four most commonly employed materials (e.g., autogenous parietal bone, silicone rubber, methylmethacrylate, and porous polyethylene) so that optimal results can be achieved. Clinical follow-up ranged from 6 to 91 months (mean 32 months). Every patient was analyzed clinically by ordinary scale method. The mean defect size was 134.8 cm2 in the silicone rubber, 36.5 cm2 in the methylmethacrylate, 17.4 cm2 in the autogenous bone graft and 7.3 cm2 in the porous polyethylene. The clinical assessment was excellent (mean, 29.3 points) in silicone rubber, excellent (mean, 28.6 points) in autogenous bone, excellent (mean, 26.8 points) in methylmethacrylate, and good (mean, 24.8 points) in polyethylene. To sum up, a large bony defect of congenital calvarial anomaly produced an excellent result using custom-made silicone implant. A relatively small bony defect with a scarred bed produced an excellent result using autogenous parietal bone grafting. Unexpected and medium-sized defect was reconstructed successfully through a simple procedure using methylmethacrylate. Porous Polyethylene was used at an incidental small defect because of its expensiveness.
Cicatrix ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Methylmethacrylate ; Parietal Bone ; Polyethylene ; Silicone Elastomers ; Transplants

Teratoma is very rarely developed in the third ventricle. We report a case of third ventricular mature teraroma in 12 year old boy with headache and precocious puberty. In TlWl and Gd-DTPA enhanced TlWl, the mass in the third ventricle showed mixed signal intensities with signal void and partial contrast enhancement. The tumor was confirmed as a mature teratoma including teeth and fatty tissue.
Adipose Tissue ; Child ; Gadolinium DTPA ; Headache ; Humans ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging* ; Male ; Puberty, Precocious ; Teratoma* ; Third Ventricle* ; Tooth

Gougerost-Blum syndrome is a rare disease and characterized by lichenoid papules in association with purpuric lesions. So far as we know there has been no report of, in literatures, Gougerot-Blum syndrome with leukemia. We experienced a case of typical Gougerrot_Blum syndrome with acute myeloblastic leukemia in a 30 year-old female patient. This patient complained of rashes on whole body for 2 months, and frequent epistaxis and gum bleeding for 20 days. The skin revealed miliary to rice sized rusty colored lichenoid papules on whole body especially on legs and arms. Histopathologically the skin showed the picture of Gougerot-Blum syndrome. On peripheral blood examination and bone marrow aspiration myeloblastic leukemia was confirmed. The patient was treated with 6-mercaptopurine, cytoxan and prednisolone with slight improvement of skin lesions, but no improvement of leukumia itselt.
6-Mercaptopurine ; Adult ; Arm ; Bone Marrow ; Cyclophosphamide ; Epistaxis ; Exanthema ; Female ; Gingiva ; Granulocyte Precursor Cells ; Hemorrhage ; Humans ; Leg ; Leukemia* ; Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute ; Prednisolone ; Rare Diseases ; Skin

We report two cases of recurrent BCC in a 51- year-old woman and a 39-year-old woman which had been misdiagnosed aind treated as pigrnented nevi. Complete surgical resections were done followed by reconstruction using local rhombic transposition flaps. Final cosmetic results were excellent and no local recurrence was noticed during one year follow-up.
Adult ; Carcinoma, Basal Cell* ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Nevus ; Recurrence