A 36-year-old man has suffered from multiple, well defined, variable sized, and elevated papulonodular patches with oozing, scale, and crust on the face. He also presented multiple folliculitis-like eruptions on upper chest, back, and both limbs. He had no leukocytosis, but elevated ESR and fever during development of skin lesions. Histologically a dense iaflammatory cell infiltra,tion composed predominantly of polymorphonuclear neutrophils and few lymphoid cells were seen in the dermis and subcutis. The symptoms and signs did not spond to dapsone and tetracycline, but disappeared on orally administered predniselone.
Adult ; Dapsone ; Dermis ; Extremities ; Fever ; Humans ; Leukocytosis ; Lymphocytes ; Neutrophils* ; Skin ; Skin Diseases* ; Sweet Syndrome ; Tetracycline ; Thorax

We report a case of zosteriform cutaneous metastasis from lung cancer in a 72- year-old male patient who have asymptomatic confluent or discrete hard papulonodules over the right upper arm and right side of chest. Histopathologic examinations of the cutaneous lesion revealed neoplastic cell, which showing glandular structure, infiltrating in the drmis and subcutaneous layer. Also histopathologic findings of metastatic lesion of skull and olecranon are similar to them. Fie died after three months from the appearance of cutaneous metastasis
Arm ; Humans ; Lung Neoplasms ; Male ; Neoplasm Metastasis* ; Olecranon Process ; Skull ; Thorax

Antibody to hepatitis A antigen was detected, by radiommuncassay, in sera froom 455 hospitalized children and adolescents without a liver disease or a clinically recognizable hepatitis history. The positive rate of antibody was over 90% in newborn infants and then progressively decreased and reached its lowest level, 9.1%, at age 7-12 months. The high positive rate in newborn infants is suggested to be a result of transplacental passive immunity, which seems to nearly disappear by the age of 7 months. The positive rate gradually increased throughout childhood: 3% at age 4-6 years, 51.1% at 7-9 years, 83.0% at age 13-15 years and 93.1% at age 16-19 years. This finding indicate that hepatitis A had developed in about one half of children until the age of 10 years and in nearly all until the age of 19 years. The prevalence of antibody was independent of sex, socioeconomic status and resident area and did not correlate significantly with serologic evidence of hepatitis B virus infection.
Adolescent* ; Child* ; Child, Hospitalized ; Hepatitis A* ; Hepatitis B virus ; Hepatitis* ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; Korea* ; Liver Diseases ; Prevalence ; Social Class

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Cytogenetics* ; Down Syndrome* ; Humans

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It is well known that there is close relation of the left atrial pathology to atrial fibrillation(AF) in patients with mitral valvular disease. To evaluate such relation is existed or not in the right atrium, the right atrial wall biopsy was performed in 31 patients with mitral valvular disease during valve surgery. The specimens obtained were interpretated by the pathologist who had no information about the patients. The specimens were graded according to severity of morphological change. In Grade I, the atrial myocardium is degenerated and has moderate fibrosis in it. Grade II shows the atrial myocardial layer of the atrium and severe degenerated with pre and postoperative heart rhythm. Four patients had Grade I change and 3 patients among them had pre and postoperative AF. Eleven patients had Grade III changes and 9 among them had pre and postoperative AF. The results show there is strong tendency that the patients with pre and postopeative AF had Grade III change in the right atrium and the relation of the right atrial pathology to AF is same as that of the left atrium.
Atrial Fibrillation* ; Biopsy ; Fibrosis ; Heart ; Heart Atria ; Humans ; Myocardium ; Pathology*

No abstract available.
Fluorides* ; Osteoblasts*

No abstract available.
Amyloidosis*

No abstract available.
Mortality*

A 29-year-old male patient was admitted due to subacute onset of right chest pain. He had no history of trauma, chest surgery or other medical disease. Chest roentgenogram showed an expansile, radiolucent lesion on the posterior segment of right seventh rib. Computed tomogram of the chest also showed lytic expansile mass with septation. He took an en-bloc resection of the involved rib. Pathologically there were multiple cystic spaces, filled with blood and collagenofibrous tissue proliferation and locally areas of new bone formation and giant cells of osteoclastic type, which was compatible with aneurysmal bone cyst. We report a case of aneurysmal bone cyst of the rib with a brief review of literature.
Adult ; Aneurysm ; Bone Cysts ; Chest Pain ; Giant Cells ; Humans ; Male ; Osteoclasts ; Osteogenesis ; Ribs* ; Thorax