No abstract available.
Spinal Muscular Atrophies of Childhood*

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Epidermal Cyst* ; Nevus*

No abstract available.
Epidermal Cyst* ; Nevus*

No abstract available.
Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone* ; Gonadotropins*

No abstract available.
Meningitis* ; Salmonella*

We report a case of type III hyperlipoproteinemia which is called a broad-beta disease. A 53 year old female patient visited our clinic for the evaluation of multiple yellowish papules on extremities and eyelids. The patient showed various types of xanthoma includiiig eruptive, tuberous, tendinous xanthomas and xanthelasma palpebrarum, xanthoma striatum palmare. The blood chemistry revealed a marked elevstion of cholesterol and triglycerides and agarose gel electrophoresis showed a single peak at prebeta and beta portion without separation. On histopathologic studies, typical foam cells were showen.
Chemistry ; Cholesterol ; Electrophoresis, Agar Gel ; Extremities ; Eyelids ; Female ; Foam Cells ; Humans ; Hyperlipoproteinemia Type III* ; Hyperlipoproteinemias ; Middle Aged ; Triglycerides ; Xanthomatosis

We reviewed 50 skin biopsies obtained from 40 patients with cutaneous leiomyoma during a 10 year period from January 1980 to December 1989. The result.s were summarized as follows: 1) Sex distribution showed a female preponderance with male.female ratio of 1: 1.9. 2) The age distribution was relatively even from childhood to old age. The mean age was 47,8 years, 3) The most common site of lesion was lower leg(34%) followed by hand(24%), foot(12% ), anterior chest(8% ), face(6% ), neck(4%), upper arm(4% ), labia major(2 %) and nipple(2%). 4) The lesions were relatively well circumscribed subcutaneous nodule, papule, plaque and nodule which measured between 0.3cm to 5cm in size and their colors were erythematous to light brown. 5) The most common clinical and histopathologic type was angioleiomyoma(75%) followed by solitary piloleiomyoma(12.5%), multiple piloleiomyoma(7,5%) and solitary genital leiomyoma(5% ). Angioleiomyomas were clincally associated with cavernous hemangioma, myoma of uterus and systemic lupus erythematosus. 7) The clinical diagnoses were mass(30% ), epidermal cyst(20%), dermatofibroma (12.5% ), leiomyoma(12,5%), neurilemmoma(5%), lipoma(5%), calcifying epithelioma(2.5%), metastatic carcinoma(2.5%), morphea(2.5% ), fibrocystic disease(2.5%), glomus tumor(2.5 % ) and Dupuytrens contracuture(2..5%).
Age Distribution ; Angiomyoma ; Biopsy ; Diagnosis ; Female ; Hemangioma, Cavernous ; Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous ; Humans ; Leiomyoma ; Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic ; Myoma ; Sex Distribution ; Skin ; Uterus

PURPOSE: Three-dimensional(3D) magnetic resonance(MR) projection imaging was evaluated as a noninvasive alternative to direct cholangiography for the assessment of its reliability in patients with obsructive jaundice. METHODS AND MATERIALS: A heavily T2-weighted gradient-echo sequence(PSIF) was used for 3D MR projecion imaging of the biliary system in five healthy volunteers and 25 patients with obstructive jaundice. The 3D images of the bile ducts were formed by stacking consecutive coronal MR images obtained with a fast imaging method to a maximum-intensity projection algorithm. RESULTS: In the volunteers, MR cholangiography could demonstrate the anatomy of the biliary tract in only two subjects. The extrahepatic and intraheparic bile ducts were well visualized in 23 patients with obstructive jaundice. The leve of obstruction and the grade of dilatation were dipicted with MR cholangiography in all cases. And the cause of obstruction could be determined with MR cholangiography in 18 cases, MR cholangiography was successful in two patients in whom ERCP failed. The gallbladder or dilated pancreatic duct not demonstrated by means of direct cholangiography was demonstrated with MR cholangiography in six cases.
Bile Ducts ; Biliary Tract ; Cholangiography* ; Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde ; Dilatation ; Gallbladder ; Healthy Volunteers ; Humans ; Jaundice ; Jaundice, Obstructive* ; Pancreatic Ducts ; Volunteers

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Purpura, Thrombocytopenic* ; Rifampin*

We report a case of epidermal nevus syndrome. The patient was a 26-year-old female who had numerous linear verrucous plaques on her neck, upper back and anterior chest. Biopsy of these lesions revealed epidermal hyperkeratosis, acanthosis and papillomatosis. Variable sized cafe-au-lait spots were scattered around the verrucous nevi. The other associated findings were claw hand deformity and epilepsy. Electroencephalogram showed very irregular, random and slow waves confined to the right temporooccipital area.
Adult ; Animals ; Biopsy ; Cafe-au-Lait Spots ; Electroencephalography ; Epilepsy ; Female ; Hand Deformities ; Hoof and Claw ; Humans ; Neck ; Nevus* ; Papilloma ; Thorax