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Thyroid Gland* ; Thyroid Nodule*

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Choledochal Cyst*

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Urinary Bladder*

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Thyroid Diseases* ; Thyroid Gland*

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Humans ; Moral Development* ; Students, Medical*

BACKGROUND: It is well known that atrial fibrillation is common cardiac arrythmia in old age and poses a definitive risk factor of cerebral infarction. Therefore, effective treatment of atrial fibrillation is very important in the prevention of cerebral infarction. However, oral anticoagulant medication for the prevention of embolic ischemic stroke may be dangerous due to cerebral hemorrhage side effects. METHODS: This is a controlled case study designed to identify the risk factors in a large numbers of stroke and atrial fibrillation patients and to assess those patients with atrial fibrillation as a high risk group for cerebral infarction. All patient discharged from Chonnam National University Hospital were identified over a 42 month period who met our case standards of atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke (n=62), and compared them with the control groups who were discharged with atrial fibrillation without stroke(n=68). We excluded the atrial fibrillation due to valvular heart disease, ischemic heart disease and congestive heart failure during the selection of subjects. RESULTS: Subjects and the controls were characteristically similar with common past medical histories of diabets, smoking, and hyperlipidemia. Sex, familial history, left ventricular hypertrophy in 2D-echocardiogram were also similar in both groups, however differences did exist. Subjects were significantly older than controls(68.9 : 63.9, p<0.001) and more likely to have a history of hypertension(56.5% : 23.5%, p<0.001) and left atrial enlargement(>40mm)(52.6% : 29.0%, p<0.001). Each of these 3 factors were assinged a measure of 1 point as a risk score, ischemic embolic stroke was found in 4 out of 28 patients(14.3%) with a risk score of 0, in 16 out of 39 patients(41.0%) with a risk score of 1, in 29 out of 41 patients(70.7%) with a risk score of 2, in 8 out of 11 patients(72.7%) with a risk score of 3. CONCLUSIONS: Based on the above results, a subject having more than two risk factors should be regarded as a high risk group for cerebral infarction and the long term anticoagulant therapy for the prevention of stroke may also be necessary even though some complications are present.
Arrhythmias, Cardiac ; Atrial Fibrillation* ; Cerebral Hemorrhage ; Cerebral Infarction* ; Heart Failure ; Heart Valve Diseases ; Humans ; Hyperlipidemias ; Hypertension ; Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular ; Jeollanam-do ; Myocardial Ischemia ; Patient Selection ; Risk Factors* ; Smoke ; Smoking ; Stroke

CT findings and comparison between clinical and CT staging were reviewed in 45 consecutive patients withbiopsy proven carcinoma of the cervix. CT was done for staging of primary untreted cercial cancer in 36 patientsand for diagnosis of recurrent cervical cancer or follow-up study 14 times in 9 patients . The results are asfollows; 1. As comparing with clinical staging in 36 cases, CT agreed with clinical stage in 19 cases (52.8%),upstaged in 10 cases(27.8%) and downstaged inn 7 cases (19.4%). 2. The main upstaged CT findings are detection ofunsuspected bladder or rectal invasion and paraaortic lymph node metastasis. Inadequate delineation ofintravaginal tumor was the leading causes of understage of CT than clinical one. 3. CT detected all 10 cases ofthe hydronephrosis shown by IVP and detected unsuspected bladder invasion in 3 cases. 4. CT was valuable in thediagnosis of recurrent tumor and follow-up study after treatment. 5. CT offeres distinct advantages over clinicalstaging and can be integrated into the present FIGO classification of uterine cervix carcinoma. CT can served asan initial radiological staging work-up of primary of recurrent cervical carcinoma.
Cervix Uteri ; Chungcheongnam-do ; Classification ; Diagnosis ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Hydronephrosis ; Lymph Nodes ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Urinary Bladder ; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms

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The authors experienced a case of the monomorphic adenoma of lacrimal gland. Monomorphic adenoma is an extremely rare salivary gland tumor. A fifty eight year old Korean female was admitted to our Dept. of Ophthalmology because of multiple small nodular masses on her right upper eyelid and a large hard solitary mass in the supraorbital area since one year ago. On B-scan ultrasonogtaphy, round echo-free zone was detected in the superiortemporal orbit. Well defined hyperdense, enhanced round extraconal mass in the superiororbital area was detected by orbital CT scan. Two large well encapsulated, dark brown colored masses were extracted by supraorbital approach and lateral orbitotomy under general anesthesia. After removal of the masses, histopathologic examination confirmed the lacrimal monomorphic adenoma.
Adenoma* ; Anesthesia, General ; Eyelids ; Female ; Humans ; Lacrimal Apparatus ; Ophthalmology ; Orbit ; Salivary Glands ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed

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Paragonimiasis*