No abstract available.
Scoliosis*

IVRO is one of the most common procedures to setback prognathic mandible. Since 1993 we have set-up our own protocol for functional physiotherapy(Park's protocol) after IVRO. This is a study on openbite and relapse tendency after IVRO followed by our protocol. We obtained lateral cephalograms of twenty-seven patients which were taken immediately after surgery, 3 months, 6 months and 1 year postoperatively. Changes in positions of each point were analyzed. The results were as follows: 1. No remarkable openbite occured during the first year after IVRO. Upper teeth, lower teeth and anterior mandible moved upward, it seems to show that post-op orthodontic treatment did not contribute to reduce openbite tendency during post-op period. Rater, the lower teeth and mandible moved with the upper teeth as the compensation mechanism. 2. Lower Incisal Edge moved anteriorly up to 6 months, so overjet decreased from 3.3mm to 2.9mm during the first six months. Skeletal changes in anterior mandible showed slight anterior movement, therefore showing slight relapse tendency, but it represented no statistical significance. 3. The physiotherapy according to our protocol was used for only a month after operation, but there was no openbite tendency, and the occlusion was stable over one year.
Compensation and Redress ; Humans ; Mandible ; Open Bite* ; Prognathism* ; Recurrence* ; Tooth

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Thyroid Gland* ; Thyroid Nodule*

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Child* ; Gastritis* ; Humans

PURPOSE: The diagnosis of Budd-Chiari syndrome on CT is difficult if CT do not demonstrate obstruction of the IVC or hepatic vein and other parameter is needed for the correct diagnosis. The purpose of our study was to determine the usefulness of measuring the diameter of azygos-hemiazygos vein on CT to differentiate Budd-Chiari syndrome from advanced liver cirrhosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Fourteen patients who were proven as Budd-Chiari syndrome on vena cavography were studied for analysis. All patients showed evidence of liver cirrhosis on CT. As a control group fifteen cases of advanced liver cirrhosis who underwent endoscopic sclerotheraphy due to esophageal variceal bleeding were also included for comparison. The largest short axis diameter of azygos-hemiazygos vein was measured in all patients at the level of diaphragm on axial CT and the results were compared in both groups. RESULTS: In patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome the largest short axial diameter of azygos-hemiazygos vein ranged from 0.5cm to 2.5cm(mean ;1.5cm). Only one patient who showed hepatic venous obstruction demonstrated a diameter of less than 1 cm(0. Scm). In contrast, the diameter in patients with advanced liver cirrhosis without obstruction of IVC or hepatic vein was less than 1 cm with a range from 0.2cm to 1 cm(mean ;0.6cm). CONCLUSION: The short axis diameter of azygos-hemiazygos vein was an indicator of IVC obstruction (Budd-Chiari syndrome).
Axis, Cervical Vertebra ; Budd-Chiari Syndrome* ; Diagnosis* ; Diaphragm ; Esophageal and Gastric Varices ; Hepatic Veins ; Humans ; Liver Cirrhosis ; Veins*

Drug-induced toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) is a bullous erythematous disease that is characterized by the appearance of scaled lesions and large sheets of pilling on the skin. A caseof TEN occured in a 10 month old female patient. The characteristic skin lesions of TEN developed after oral administration of carbamazepine for a partial seizure. Thig case consists of prodrome of malaise, fever, anorexia, and conjunctivity followed by erythema & flaccid bullae formation. Diagnosis was confirmed by histologic findings. This patient was treated with a massive systemic corticosteroid, antibiotics, fluid and electrolytes, and topical measures. Authors experienced an extremely rare case of TEN dur to carbamazepine, So report it with a brief review of literature.
Administration, Oral ; Anorexia ; Anti-Bacterial Agents ; Carbamazepine ; Diagnosis ; Electrolytes ; Erythema ; Female ; Fever ; Humans ; Infant ; Seizures ; Skin ; Stevens-Johnson Syndrome*

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Spleen*

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Aging* ; Erythrocytes* ; Humans ; Lipid Peroxidation*

PURPOSE: We reviewed the clinical finding of malignant melanoma of the foot in korean because it's advanced stage and extended lesion at diagnosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Retrospective study was enforced about the 11 cases who has diagnosed to malignant melanoma of the foot from February 1995 to March 2004. The mean follow up period was 61 months. In this study we used age, sex, site, depth, histology, clinical stage, precursor lesion, misdiagnosis, interval to diagnosis, survival time, survival. RESULTS: Average age was 58 years and number of female was six. Common site of involvement were heel of plantar surface (6 cases) and subungual area (2 cases). Depths of involvement were 0.3 to 10 mm, most common histological type was acral lentiginous melanoma (7 cases), stage 5 according to classification of Clark were 5 cases and stage 2 or more according to clinical staging were 8 cases. precursor lesion were benign melanocytic nevi (2 cases) and ill defined (9 cases). Chief complaint were increasing of size, color change, pain and ulceration. CONCLUSION: Malignant melanoma of the foot usually arise at nonvisible area and is easy to be misdiagnosed or delayed treatment. So it is hard to early diagnosis and have poor prognosis. So we need education and effort to early detection and diagnosis.
Classification ; Diagnosis ; Diagnostic Errors ; Early Diagnosis ; Education ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Foot* ; Heel ; Humans ; Melanoma* ; Nevus, Pigmented ; Prognosis ; Retrospective Studies ; Ulcer

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Nephritis, Interstitial* ; Yersinia pseudotuberculosis* ; Yersinia*