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Female ; Pregnancy ; Pregnancy, Abdominal* ; Ultrasonics*

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Anesthesiology* ; Education* ; Publications*

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Adenocarcinoma* ; Cervix Uteri* ; Female

Gastric cancer is the most common malignancy in Korea. Although five years survival rate of gestric cancer has been gradually improved due to advances in the diagnostic technique and therapeutic modalities, the advanced gastric cancer remains a disease with poor pragnosis. At the time of diagnosis, the disease, is usually advanced and longterm survivor is uncommon without a proper surgical treatment or chemotherapy. We experienced a case of advanced gastric cancer who lived for more than 6 years after making a diagnosis, without curative surgical therapy or chemotherapy. The patient at age of 76 year-old, was seen in St. Mary's hospital due to gastroinestinal bleeding in January of l985. A large ulcerating cancer in the diameter of 2.0 cm was found at the posterior wall of body with endoscopy and confirmed the diagnosis of stomach cancer by the endoscopic biopsy. He was recommended the surgical intervention of gastric cancer but he denied the operation due to his age, He had been treated symptomatically with H2 receptor antagonist and antacid with relief of symptoms. Thereafter he had been followed-up clinically at every 2-4 weeks, and the lesion was examined 3-4 times in a year endoscopically, In May l990, an endoscopic esophageal dilation was done due to esophageal stricture with tumor invasion at the lower esophageal sphincter. He was expired in July, 1991 in this hospital. Here we report a case of long term survived advanced gastric cancer who had been followed-up for 6 and half years clinically and endoscopically with review of literatures.
Aged ; Biopsy ; Diagnosis ; Drug Therapy ; Endoscopy ; Esophageal Sphincter, Lower ; Esophageal Stenosis ; Hemorrhage ; Humans ; Korea ; Stomach Neoplasms* ; Survival Rate ; Survivors ; Ulcer

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to investigate the clinical and histological features of odontogenic keratocyst PATIENTS AND METHODS: A retrosective review of 100 patients who were diagnosed as odontogenic keratocyst by hitological findings during the period of January 2000 and December 2005 in the Dept. of Oral and Maxillofacial surgery Pusan National University was consecuted. For each patient, age, sex, location of lesion, initial diagnosis by radiographic features, treatment procedure, hitologic findings and recurrance rate were evaluated. RESULTS: In this study, OKC has male prevalance to female by 1.38:1, and most likely occurs during third decade. The most common site of lesion was mandibular ramus region(34.6%) and the most common symptom was swelling(50%). The most common initial diagnosis by radiographic findings was OKC and cyst enucleation was the most common treatment method. The recurrance rate was 28% and existence of daugther cyst is thought to be most convincing factor for prediction of recurrence. CONCLUSION: In this study, total recurrence rate was 28% and existence of daugther cyst is thought to be most convincing factor for prediction of recurrence. But, since 97% of patients were treated by enucleation and adjuntive excision, further styudy is need about concordance of recurrence rate with surgical method.
Female ; Humans ; Male ; Odontogenic Cysts ; Recurrence ; Surgery, Oral

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Drug Therapy* ; Neutropenia*

BACKGROUND: Cisplatin (CP), an antitumor agent widely used in the treatment of cancers, has nephrotoxicity. This side effect is closely related to oxidative stress. In the present study, we attempted to reduce CP-induced nephrotoxicity in rats by administering melatonin, an antioxidant. METHODS: Male Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into different groups and were treated as follows: (1) saline control; (2) CP (16 mg/kg, i.p.); (3) CP plus melatonin (10 mg/kg, i.p.). The rats were sacrificed at the 6th day after CP treatment. To evaluate renal damage, BUN, serum creatinine, creatinine clearance and microscopic examination were done. Hydrogen peroxide which is one of the oxygen free radicals, and malondialdehyde which is known as a marker of the oxygen free radical mediated injury, and the activities of the antioxidant enzymes such as superoxied dismutase, catalase, and glutathione peroxidase were also measured. RESULTS: CP-treated rats showed the increase of BUN, serum creatinine, malondialdehyde, hydrogen peroxide and superoxide dismutase (SOD) in kidney. And CP-treated rats also showed the decrease of creatinine clearance and catalase levels. CP-treated rats showed severe tubular necrosis in proximal convoluted tubules under the light microscopic examination. The light microscopic finding and all of the parameters except SOD were restored in the rats injected with CP plus melatonin than those with CP alone. SOD level was higher in the rats injected with CP plus melatonin than that with CP alone. CONCIUSION: These results suggest that melatonin suppresses CP-induced nephrotoxicity by suppressing the production of reactive oxygen species via the activation of SOD and catalase.
Animals ; Catalase ; Cisplatin* ; Creatinine ; Free Radicals ; Glutathione Peroxidase ; Humans ; Hydrogen Peroxide ; Kidney ; Male ; Malondialdehyde ; Melatonin* ; Necrosis ; Oxidative Stress ; Oxygen ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Reactive Oxygen Species ; Superoxide Dismutase

Oxygen free radical activity is elevated in diabetes mellitus and has been implicated in the etiology of vascular complications and diabetic nephropathy is a serious microvascular complication in patients with IDDM. Despite intensive investigation, the pathophysiology of diabetic renal disease has not been fully elucidated. However, several clinical and experimental studies have suggested that endothelial dysfunction and changes of peritubular microcirculation might deteriorate renal function in patients with IDDM. We performed this study to examine the oxidative stress and correlation between levels of serum creatinine and erythrocytic MDA, SOD, catalase, GPX in IDDM patients with diabetic nephropathy. Twenty one patients with IDDM(diabetic duration >5 years) and persistent albuminuria(albumin excretion>1000mg/day) and 15 normal healthy controls were investigated prospectively for erythrocytic MDA(thiobarbituric acid assay) and antioxidant enzymes[SOD(Hyland et al.), catalase(Nelson and Kiesow), GPX(Palgia and Valentine)] and correlation to serum creatinine levels. Levels of erythrocytic MDA were significantly higher in patients with diabetic nephropathy than in normal healthy controls(p<0.05) and levels of erythrocytic antioxidant enzymes were significantly lower in patients with diabetic nephropathy than in normal healthy controls(p<0.05). There was no significant correlation between serum levels of creatinine and erythrocytic MDA in group 1(r=0.12, p>0.05) and group 2(r=0.12,p>0.05) but there was significant correlation between serum levels of creatine and erythrocytic MDA in group 3(r=0.96, p<0.05). There was no significant correlation between serum levels of creatinine and erythrocytic antioxidant enzymes in all patients with diabetic nephropathy groups(group 1, group 2, and group 3; p>0.05). We concluded that increased oxidative stress and decreased antioxidative defense mechanism might be factors in the initiation of diabetic nephropathy and the oxidative stress correlated with higher serum levels of creatinine(more than 5mg/dL)(p<0.05).
Catalase ; Creatine ; Creatinine* ; Diabetes Mellitus ; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 ; Diabetic Nephropathies* ; Humans ; Microcirculation ; Oxidative Stress ; Oxygen ; Prospective Studies

Humans ; Odontogenic Cysts ; Osteoclasts ; Recurrence

Aged ; Animals ; Bone Matrix ; Collagen ; Female ; Humans ; Osteoporosis ; Osteoprotegerin ; Rats ; Stem Cells ; Tibia ; Titanium