No abstract available.
Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2a* ; Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia*

No abstract available.
Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2a* ; Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia*

Surgery for a mid-esophageal lesion requires an open thoracotomy, But authors resected out a stenotic thoracic esphageal lesion with laparoscopic instrument without open thoracotomy. The patient was 50 years old woman with a long history of progressive dyaphagia. A small (3 cm in diameter) smooth ovoid submucosal mass lesion was found at 26 cm distal from incisor on both esophagoscopy and esophagogram. Two 5 mm and two 10 mm trocars were inserted into the right pleural cavity under general anesthesia with double lumen endotracheal tube, An induced pneumothorax by insuffulation of CO2 gas made lung collapse and a good exposure of esophagus. Transorally introduced esophagoscope helped to demonstrate the exact location of lesion and also to give a guide at safe excision of mass with prevention of mucosal perforation. The lesion was found to be a congromeration of an inflammed hilar lympnode and hypertorphic esophageal muscle. The entire lesion was carefully dissected from esphageal mucosa and resected out en bloc. A chest tube was introduced through a trocar site. The lung was reinflated immediately. Post-operatively patient was very comfortable. Laparoscopic surgery is very effective and safe, and it could be applied for the resection of lung bullae, benign pulmonary neoplasm and for an excision of benign esophageal tumor.
Anesthesia, General ; Chest Tubes ; Esophagoscopes ; Esophagoscopy ; Esophagus ; Female ; Humans ; Incisor ; Laparoscopy ; Lung ; Lung Neoplasms ; Middle Aged ; Mucous Membrane ; Pleural Cavity ; Pneumothorax ; Pulmonary Atelectasis ; Surgical Instruments ; Thoracotomy*

The transpedicular screw fixation is known to be capable of providing more secure correctional, force and rigid fixation to the spine. But it is often accompanied by various complications, including stress shield effects, loosening in osteoporotic spine, pseudoarthrosis, hardware problems and long-term change in motion behaviors at the adjacent motion segment and etc. The purpose of this study is to compare the flexible and rigid rods system in terms of complications and problems for various degenerative lumbar diseases. From September 1991 to November 1994, 41 patients were operated with the flexible rods system (group A) and 39 patients with the rigid rods system (group B). They were followed up for more than 4 years. The flexible rods system was composed of 41 cases of Wiltse system and the rigid rods system was composed of 29 cases of Diapason, 8 cases of TSRH and 2 cases of CD instrument. The resuits of the study were as follows: 1. By standard Cobb lateral measurement, 7 cases in group A and 10 cases in group B showed significant loss of sagittal angle (>4), post-operatively. 2. Hardware failure was noted in 7 cases in group A and 10 cases in group B. In group A, rod bending was seen in 4 cases, rod breakage in 2 and screw loosening in one. In group B, screw loosening was observed in 5 and screw-rod locking mechanism failure in 5 cases. 3. In spondylolisthesis patients, 10 cases in group A and 14 in group B, there was no statistically significant differences between the two groups in the reduction rate immediately after surgery and loss of reduction at the last follow up. 4. Clinical results were good to excellent in 85.4% of patients in group A and 82.1% of group B. No statistically significant differences between the two groups were found, 5. No statistically significant differences between the two groups were found with respect to degenerative changes at the adjacent motion segment to the fused level and pseudoarthrosis.
Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Pseudarthrosis ; Spine* ; Spondylolisthesis

Since calcification or ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament of the spine was first described inJapan in 1960 by Tsukimoto, Terayama used the term of OPLL(Ossification of Posterior Longitudinal Ligament) in1964 and mainly reported in Japanese. But recently, the incidence of the OPLL has been reported increasing amongthe non-Japanese. Because of the OPLL may be associated wtih severe neurologic symptoms, which need to havesurgical decompression, exact diagnosis and analysis are necessary. The OPLL can be diagnosed by simple spine,conventional tomography, myelography and CT. Authors analysed radiologic findings of the OPLL in 8 patients, whowere diagnosed by simple spine. Conventional tomography, myelography and CT, and then performed spinal operation,at Hanyang University Hospital from March 1980 to June 1983. The results were as followings; 1. The age range wasbetween 45 and 63 years and most prevalent age was 6th decades(63%). 2. All of the patients were male. 3. All ofthe OPLL occurred in the cervical spine and predominant at the level of C3,4 (48%). 4. The most common length ofthe OPLL was 2 vertebral level. 5. Except one, which was discontinuous at the level of disc space, all of the OPLLwere continuous in length. 6. 7 of 8 OPLL were located in the midline, but one was in right. 7. The OPLL seemed tocorrelate with spondylotic changes. 8. Of all diagnostic procedure, CT provided better and exact visualization ofthe lesion with axial scan and sagittal reconstruction.
Asian Continental Ancestry Group ; Decompression ; Diagnosis ; Humans ; Incidence ; Longitudinal Ligaments ; Male ; Myelography ; Neurologic Manifestations ; Spine

No abstract available.
Rhabdomyolysis* ; Technetium Tc 99m Medronate*

We present a case in which a patient with acute hemorrhagic gastritis demonstrated abnormal gastrointestinal accumulation of radiotracer during Tc-99m-methylene diphosphonate (MDP) skeletal scintigraphy. A hemorrhage gastritis was subsequsently demonstrated by endoscopy. The menchanism for the intestinal localization of Tc-99m-MDP in this patient is not clear, but we guess that the extravasated blood containing the radiopharmaceutical cannot recirculate and stays at the bleedings site, so we can see the intestinal activity.
Endoscopy ; Gastritis ; Hemorrhage* ; Humans ; Radionuclide Imaging* ; Technetium Tc 99m Medronate*

No abstract available.
Dipyridamole* ; Heart Ventricles*

No abstract available.
Anemia, Megaloblastic* ; Megaloblasts* ; Primary Myelofibrosis*

No abstract available.
Myocardium*