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Urethral polyp is an unusual cause of bladder outlet obstruction in male patients. Diagnosis is made by cystourethrography and is confirmed by transurethral biopsy. We report on an infant with a congenital polyp of the prostatic urethra with brief review of literature.
Biopsy ; Diagnosis ; Humans ; Infant ; Male ; Polyps* ; Urethra ; Urinary Bladder Neck Obstruction

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Bone Density* ; Estrogens* ; Female ; Humans

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Child* ; Humans ; Infant* ; Urinary Tract Infections* ; Urinary Tract*

Objectives: ：The purpose of this study is to investigate the characteristics of the perception of the somatic symptoms and the cognitive emotion regulation strategies in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Methods: ：A total of 48 patients meeting DSM-5 criteria for PTSD and 48 normal controls were recruited for participation in this study. We evaluated subjects using Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS), Somato-Sensory Amplification Scale (SSAS), Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAM-A) and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ). We analyzed data using an independent t-test and Pearson’s correlation analysis. Results: ：In terms of SSAS, PTSD patients presented higher average SSAS scores than normal controls but the result is not statistically significant. In PTSD patients, the severity of PTSD is significantly correlated with CERQrumination and CERQ-catastrophizing. The SSAS scores of PTSD patients show the significant positive correla-tion with PTSD hyperarousal symptoms, CERQ-catastrophizing and CERQ-blaming others. Conclusions ：These results reveal that patients with PTSD have maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies such as rumination and catastrophizing. Somato-sensory amplification seems to be related with PTSD hyperarousal, CERQ-catastrophizing and CERQ-blaming others. Therefore, reducing somato-sensory amplifica-tion, rumination and catastrophizing can be helpful to reduce PTSD symptoms and somatic symptoms in PTSD patients.

By doing MRI of spinal cord and elctrophysiological studies we were going to correlate MRI and electrophysiologi-cal findings with the known pathology of tabes dorsalis. A 45 year old male patient developed gait ataxia with a tin-gling sense in hands and feet in september of 1996. Neurological examination revealed impaired position sense in his great toes and thumbs with profound instability in the Romberg test, and areflexias in his knee and ankle jerks. Serum VDRL and TPHA test results were positive. CSF revealed pleocytosis(WBC : 16/cubic mm), elevated protein level, and reactive VDRL and FTA-ABS tests. Spinal MRI showed high signal intensity in the posterior part of the entire length of the cervical cord without enhancement with Gadolinium. Follow-up spinal MRI of the cervical area, which was taken two years after penicillin treatment did not show any interval change and spinal MRI of thoracolumbar area also showed similar finding to that of the cervical cord. Nerve conduction studies before and after the penicillin trea-ment showed normal findings except absent H-reflexes. However, the somatosensory evoked potentials with posterior tibial nerve stimulation did not show any abnormalities, which were incompatible with previous report and the known pathologic abnormality. Normal somatosensory evoked potentials suggests using any other pathways than the posterior column in conducting somatosensory evoked potentials.
Ankle ; Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory ; Fluorescent Treponemal Antibody-Absorption Test ; Follow-Up Studies ; Foot ; Gadolinium ; Gait Ataxia ; H-Reflex ; Hand ; Humans ; Knee ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging* ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Neural Conduction ; Neurologic Examination ; Pathology ; Penicillins ; Proprioception ; Spinal Cord ; Tabes Dorsalis* ; Thumb ; Tibial Nerve ; Toes

BACKGROUND: Helicobacter pylori(H. pylori) is an important etiologic agent for chronic active gastritis and plays a role in the pathogenesis of peptic ulcer and stomach cancer and recently lymphomas occurring in mucosa associated lymphatic tissue. At present, H. pylori infection associated gastritis was estimated about 80% among the cause of chronic gastritis. In this study, we tested Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) assay to detect H. pylori infection in gastric biopsy specimens. This results were compared with results obtained by other tests. METHODS: A total of 70 patients with dyspepsia were evaluated for H. pylori infection through the use of PCR, culture and serologic tests. The study population had an age of 12 to 80 years(median 46.4), there were 31 males and 39 females. We tested PCR using H. pylori detection kit(TM) (Bioneer, Korea) and anti-H. pylori anti-body EIA using GAP test IgG and IgM(TM)(BIO-RAD, USA). We used anaerobic jar without catalyst for the microaerophilic condition. RESULTS: The positive result by PCR assay for diagnosis of H. pylori infection in gastric specimens was 71.4% in total of 70 patients, which the gastritis, peptic ulcer and gastric cancer were 63.2%, 77.8% and 85.7%, respectively. Among 10 gastrectomy specimens of stomach cancers, the detection rate of H. pylori infection by culture was 50% and the PCR assay was 100%. The detection rate of If pylori IgG and IgM antibodies by commercially available GAP test IgG and IgM EIA were 64.3%, respectively, and IgG or IgM were 85.7%. CONCLUSIONS: The serologic study was sensitive but it was appeared that the high false positive (75%) and false negative (25%) rate and could not confirm current infection. The PCR assay was shown to be more sensitive, rapid and easy to treat specimen for the detection of H. pylori infection than conventional methods such as culture and serologic test in dyspeptic patients.
Antibodies ; Biopsy ; Diagnosis ; Dyspepsia ; Female ; Gastrectomy ; Gastritis ; Helicobacter pylori* ; Helicobacter* ; Humans ; Immunoglobulin G ; Immunoglobulin M ; Lymphoid Tissue ; Lymphoma ; Male ; Mucous Membrane ; Peptic Ulcer ; Polymerase Chain Reaction* ; Serologic Tests ; Stomach Neoplasms

BACKGROUND: Helicobacter pylori(H. pylori) is an important etiologic agent for chronic active gastritis and plays a role in the pathogenesis of peptic ulcer and stomach cancer and recently lymphomas occurring in mucosa associated lymphatic tissue. At present, H. pylori infection associated gastritis was estimated about 80% among the cause of chronic gastritis. In this study, we tested Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) assay to detect H. pylori infection in gastric biopsy specimens. This results were compared with results obtained by other tests. METHODS: A total of 70 patients with dyspepsia were evaluated for H. pylori infection through the use of PCR, culture and serologic tests. The study population had an age of 12 to 80 years(median 46.4), there were 31 males and 39 females. We tested PCR using H. pylori detection kit(TM) (Bioneer, Korea) and anti-H. pylori anti-body EIA using GAP test IgG and IgM(TM)(BIO-RAD, USA). We used anaerobic jar without catalyst for the microaerophilic condition. RESULTS: The positive result by PCR assay for diagnosis of H. pylori infection in gastric specimens was 71.4% in total of 70 patients, which the gastritis, peptic ulcer and gastric cancer were 63.2%, 77.8% and 85.7%, respectively. Among 10 gastrectomy specimens of stomach cancers, the detection rate of H. pylori infection by culture was 50% and the PCR assay was 100%. The detection rate of If pylori IgG and IgM antibodies by commercially available GAP test IgG and IgM EIA were 64.3%, respectively, and IgG or IgM were 85.7%. CONCLUSIONS: The serologic study was sensitive but it was appeared that the high false positive (75%) and false negative (25%) rate and could not confirm current infection. The PCR assay was shown to be more sensitive, rapid and easy to treat specimen for the detection of H. pylori infection than conventional methods such as culture and serologic test in dyspeptic patients.
Antibodies ; Biopsy ; Diagnosis ; Dyspepsia ; Female ; Gastrectomy ; Gastritis ; Helicobacter pylori* ; Helicobacter* ; Humans ; Immunoglobulin G ; Immunoglobulin M ; Lymphoid Tissue ; Lymphoma ; Male ; Mucous Membrane ; Peptic Ulcer ; Polymerase Chain Reaction* ; Serologic Tests ; Stomach Neoplasms

OBJECTIVES: Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is one of the most important work related musculo-skeletal diseases in Korea. However, there are few epidemiologic studies on the work-related CTS (WR-CTS). This study aimed to investigate the epidemiologic characteristics of WR-CTS in Korea. METHODS: Data obtained from the"CTS Surveillance System". Physician case-reports in the surveillance were used to document patterns of WR-CTS by age, gender, occupation, sign, symptom, working history. RESULTS: Six hundred and seventy-two cases of WR-CTS were ascertained. of which 314 with complete information on occupational history were analyzed. It has been estimated that as many as 72% of all CTS cases are work-related. The highest proportion of WR-CTS was observed in 'elementary occupation workers', followed by 'skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers'. The distributions of WR-CTS cases were similar with respect to age, obesity, and past medical history. The proportion of WR-CTS was higher in females. There was no significant difference in physical examination findings between WR-CTS and non WR-CTS cases. Repetitive work and the inappropriate hand posture seemed to be the risks for WR-CTS. CONCLUSION: WR-CTS is a significant public health problem. The CTS surveillance system is quite useful to elucidate the characteristics of WR-CTS, but it remains of limited use in targeting specific industries and occupations for intervention.
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome* ; Epidemiologic Studies ; Female ; Fisheries ; Forestry ; Hand ; Humans ; Korea* ; Obesity ; Occupations ; Physical Examination ; Posture ; Public Health