BACKGROUND: Psoriasis is a disabling and intractable disease influencing the psychosocial life of the patients. Patients who are frustrated with orthodox medicine may explore alternative therapies. OBJECTIVE: This study was done to research on the actual condition of the use of alternative medicine in the patients with psoriasis. METHODS: A self-administered questionnaire was constructed, and was given to the patients to answer our questions. RESULTS: Among 128 patients with psoriasis, 61 (47.7%) reported previous use of one or more forms of alternative medicine. The absence of satisfactory long-term effects of physician-provided therapy was the main reason for patients trying alternative medicine. Persons without skin s disease and the mass media were the main sources of information on alternative medicine. CONCLUSION: Alternative therapies were widely utilized by subjects participating in this study, and dermatologists need to be aware of alternative treatments employed by their patients.
Complementary Therapies* ; Humans ; Mass Media ; Psoriasis* ; Skin

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Denture, Partial, Removable*

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Female ; Humans ; Premenstrual Syndrome*

PURPOSE : The purpose of this study was to determine proper position and angulation of an implant for immediate implantation. MATERIALS AND METHOD : From the years 1997 to 2000, 52 Denta scanR views, 22 upper and 32 lower jaw with an average age of 43 and 40 respectively, were investigated, which comprise intact upper and lower 6 anterior teeth and premolars. on the Denta scanR, the optimal placement for the immediated implantation was simulated. The measuring methods included. 1) Angulation difference between tooth long axis and alveolar bone process. 2) Angulation difference of long axis between tooth and installing fixture 3) Distance between center of tooth at cervical area and center of fixture. 4) Distance from root apex to the bone limit of vital structure. One sample t-test was used for statistical analysis. RESULT : The results were as follows. 1) At the maxillary central incisor and lateral incisor, angulation difference of long axis between tooth and installing fixture was respectively 0.5 and 3.2degrees with the fixture center's palatally positioned 2mm apart from tooth center. 2) At the lower anterior 6 teeth, that was about -2.8degree to -4.6degree with the fixture center's lingually positioned 1mm apart from tooth center. 3) At the maxillary canine and premolar, that was respectively 11.8degree and 7.2degree with the fixture center palatally positioned 2~2.4mm apart from tooth center. 4) At the lower premolar area, that was about 0degree to 2degree with the fixture center's lingually positioned 0.5~1mm apart from tooth center. 5) Distance from root apex to the bone limit of vital structure, at the maxillary anterior and premolars, was the range of 10 to 12mm, and at the mandibular anterior teeth and the 1st premolar, that was the range of 18 to 20mm. CONCLUSION : The proper implant position of maxillary anterior and premolar teeth is as paralleled as or more buccally angulated than long axis of tooth with the fixture center's palatally positioned. in mandibular anterior region, long axis of implants is lingully angulated compared with compared with long axis of tooth and in premolar, almost parelleled with long axis of tooth and alveolar process.
Alveolar Process ; Axis, Cervical Vertebra ; Bicuspid ; Dental Implantation* ; Dental Implants* ; Incisor ; Jaw ; Statistics as Topic* ; Tooth

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Fetus* ; Klinefelter Syndrome* ; Prenatal Diagnosis*

Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Headache ; Humans ; Incidence ; Neck ; Neck Pain ; Shoulder Pain ; Temporomandibular Joint

We herein present a case of a 2-year-old girl with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma(NHL) of the lymphoblastic type involving cutaneous sites at the time of diagnosis. The histological finding was typical of lymphoblastic lymphoma. However, immunophenotypically, this lymphoma was not of the T-cell or B-cell type, although the vast majority of lymphoblastic lymphomas involving the skin are usually of the pre-B cell or T-ce11 type. Until now, there have been few reports of non-T, non-B primary cutaneous lymphoblastic lymphoma expressing surface CD10 and CD56 antigens as in this case.
Antigens, CD56 ; B-Lymphocytes ; Child, Preschool ; Diagnosis ; Female ; Humans ; Lymphoma ; Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma* ; Precursor Cells, B-Lymphoid ; Skin ; T-Lymphocytes

We herein report a case of secondary cutaneous diffuse large B-cell lymphoma(DLBCL) occurring in a 66-year-old woman. The skin lesions were erythematous infiltrative nodules on the right inguinal area. Histologically, the skin lesion disclosed DLBCL mainly composed of immunoblasts. Concurrently, she showed lymph node involvement. Initially, however, we could not define the conclusive temporal sequences between nodal lesions and skin lesions. Finally, additional further studies revealed this case as secondary cutaneous 8-cell lymphoma, and she was managed with systemic chemotherapy.
Aged ; B-Lymphocytes* ; Drug Therapy ; Female ; Humans ; Lymph Nodes ; Lymphoma ; Lymphoma, B-Cell* ; Skin

Peripheral T-cel1 lymphoma(PTCL) encompasses histopathologically and clinically various spectra of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma(CTCL). In this report, we describe two cases of PTCL showing diRerent clinical courses according to EBV(Epstein-Barr virus) positivity. The chnical course of case 1 with EBV-associated PTCL was rapidby fatal and refractory to intensive chcmotherapy. However, in case 2, EBV genomes were not found in her lesional tissues and she showed an indolent clinical course withoaat systemic symptoms. Accordingly, serological and immunohistochemical investigations for EBV might be mandatory in cutaneous PTCL to evaluate clinical prognosis.
Genome ; Herpesvirus 4, Human* ; Immunoblastic Lymphadenopathy* ; Lymphoma* ; Lymphoma, T-Cell, Peripheral ; Prognosis ; T-Lymphocytes