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Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1* ; Korea*

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Obesity*

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Cumulative Trauma Disorders*

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Patients with thalamic lesions can experience ataxia on the contralesional side. We report here a 24 year old female patient who presented with a left thalamic tumor and experienced bilateral ataxia of the upper and lower extremities after a left thalamic resection. Her right-sided ataxia was more severe than that of the left side. The bilateral ataxia was likely to be from cerebellar ataxia. The right-sided ataxia may have been caused by injury of the dentatorubrothalamic tract originating from the dentate nucleus of the right cerebellum and terminating in the contralateral ventrolateral nucleus of the left thalamus. We believe that the left sided ataxia in this patient was due to an uncrossed dentatorubrothalamic tract, which control the movement of the ipsilateral side of the human body.
Ataxia

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Fistula*

BACKGROUND: The differentiation between basal cell carcinoma(BCC) and trichoepithelioma(TE) is sometimes difficult clinically and histologically, and their differentiation is important since their treatment and prognosis are sometimes different. OBJECTIVE: Our purpose was to investigate whether there was a difference in CD34 staining patterns in the stromas (immediate and distant stromas from the tumor lobules) of BCC and TE, since the histopathologic characteristics of the stromas are one of the most important features to differentiate the two tumor. METHOD: We perfomed immunoperoxidase staining(modified ABC technique) by using a monoclonal anti CD34 antibody(QBEND10, IgG1) on the formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded biopsy specimens of 11 BCC as and 10 TEs. RESULTS: 1. In the immediate strcimas, spindle-shaped cells were stained in 4 out of ll cases of BCC and in 9 out of 10 cases of TE. However, the staining patterns observed in the 4 cases of BCC were all loosely scattered, week staining, while those of the 9 cases of TE were all densely compact, strong staining. CD34 was not expressed in one case of TE. 2. In the distant stromas, all cases of BCC and TE showed staining of loosely scattered spindle-shaped cells, and there was no difference in staining patterns of the two tumors. 3. Papillary mesenchymed bodies were observed in 8 cases of TE and in none of BCC, and they expressed CD34 focally. CONCLUSION: CD34 sta ining patterns of the immediate peritumoral stromas of BCCs and TEs were different and could differentiate the two tumors.
Biopsy ; Carcinoma, Basal Cell* ; Prognosis

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Humans ; Muscle Spasticity*

PURPOSE: The goal of this study was to estimate development of secondary sex characters and genitalia including testicular volume, penile length and girth, and prevalence of varicocele. In addition, we evalua ted the relationship between testicular volume and presence of varicocele. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross sectional study was conducted on 893 school boys between the ages of 14 to 15 years, 3rd grade middle school in Chonju city during the period september to October, 1999. The testicular volume was measured in the upright posture using Prader's orchidometer and penile length and girth were estimated with a ruler. Varicocele was evaluated by dubin's method. RESULTS: The testis volume (mean+/-SD) was 10.20+/-2.6ml on right and 9.93+/-2.6 on left and penile length (mean+/-SD) was 10.9+/-1.6cm and penile girth (mean+/-SD) was 8.0+/-0.8cm. The prevalence of varicocele was 38.2% (342/893) in left side, 16%(146/893) in right side. The difference in testicular volume between right and left testis was statistically significant in students with unilateral varicocele than the students without varicocele (0.78+/-1.06ml v/s, 0.54+/-1.01ml, p=0.004). CONCLUSIONS: In this study, we obtained mean testicular volume, penile length and girth and higher incidence rate of varicocele on adolescent school age group in Chonju area. The difference in testicular varicocele. The reduction of the testicular volume with varicocele correlated with the severity of grade of varicocele need following up to disclose the effect of the varicocele on the testicular growth and fertility potential.
Adolescent ; Fertility ; Genitalia* ; Humans ; Incidence ; Jeollabuk-do* ; Posture ; Prevalence* ; Testis ; Varicocele*

BACKGROUND: The morphalogy of fibroblast in culture is important in the discrimination of normal and abnormal cells as well as in recogniring general physiologic status of the cells. There have been many reports on the morphologic clialges in various skin diseases and in response to various drugs. However, we couldnt find any report on the time-sequential morphologic changes of normal fibroblasts in early subculture using light microscopy. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to describe the time-sequential morphologic changes of normal fibroblhst in early subculture. METHODS: The fibroblaats from 4 normal donors were cultured. We observed the morphologic changes of fibrolMasts in the third passage of subculture using light microscopy at 0-, 30-, 60-, 90-, 120-minutes, 3-, 5-, 24-, 72-hours and days after trypsinization, and electron microscopic exarriioation was done at 21 day-culture. RESULTS & CONCLUSION: Just after trypsinization, the cell were small and round, which divided and increased in number as time went by. At 120-minute culture, many cells had long and thin cytoplasmic elongations and they took stellae,shape at 5-hour culture. At 24-hour culture, several spindle-shaped cells were observec with cell-cell contacts. At 72-hour culture, many spindlle-shaped cells were arranged in medirection, with the appearance of parallel or whorl patterns and showed prominent cell-cell contacts. On electron microscopic examination, there were prominent RER, residial bodies and microfilaments.
Actin Cytoskeleton ; Cytoplasm ; Discrimination (Psychology) ; Fibroblasts* ; Humans ; Microscopy ; Skin Diseases ; Skin* ; Tissue Donors ; Trypsin