No abstract available.
Follow-Up Studies* ; Needles* ; Prostate* ; Prostatic Hyperplasia*

Prophylactic treatment of varices is an appealing concept because 50% of patients who experience variceal bleeding will die within the first 6 weeks of the first bleeding. However, the majority of trials which have evaluated prophylactic therapy gave failed to demonstrate advantage, We tried prophylactic endoscopic variceal ligation(EVL) in 10 patients, to evaluate the safety and effect of prophylactic EVL for esophageal varices with high-risk of hemorrhage. The eradication rate was 100% without bleeding and mortality, the mean session for eradication of varices 1.9, the number of bands per person 16.9 and the number of bands per session 8.9. Although mild chest pain(5.3%) and chest discomfortness(31.6%) were observed, no serious complication related with EVL resulted from 19 EVL sessions. The patients were followed for a mean of 327.0 days(85-708), during which recurrent esophagea1 varices were found in a case at 260 days from last session, but no bleeding nor death was occured. No late complication of EVL was documented. In conclusion, prophylactic EVL is safe and may be effective for esophageal varices with high-risk of hemorrhage. But, the large controlled-trial should be required.
Esophageal and Gastric Varices* ; Hemorrhage* ; Humans ; Ligation* ; Mortality ; Thorax ; Varicose Veins

In general, arthroplasty in the hand is divided into three categories, namely fusion, soft tissue arthroplasty and interpositional arthroplasy, each of that having some problems and limited indications. Frequently orthopedic surgeons fall into difficulties in deciding the treatment for the ankylosed joints of the hand in young adults. We now report a case of living joint transplantation from the M-P joint of 2nd toe for post-traumatic ankylosis of that of index finger. The follow-up shows improved range of motion and good pain relief.
Ankylosis ; Arthroplasty ; Fingers ; Follow-Up Studies ; Hand ; Humans ; Joints ; Orthopedics ; Range of Motion, Articular ; Surgeons ; Toes ; Young Adult

PURPOSE: We performed a retrospective study to determine the comparative characteristics of vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) between the infants less than 1 year and children more than 1 year old and whether early treatment in infantile VUR may be of benefit to preserve the renal function and to prevent the new renal scar. MATERIALS AND METHODS: All of 62 cases (infant group 19 and children group 43) with primary VUR were managed as the ureteral reimplantation from January 1991 to December 1996. RESULTS: The average age of patients was 7.1 months in infant group and 6.0 years in children group. The sex ratio of male to female showed no difference between infant and children group (1.7:1 Vs 1.5:1). The average follow up periods were 20.5 and 23.7 months in infant and children groups, respectively. The high grade reflux and renal scarring in infant group were significantly more frequent than those in children group (P<0.05), but the prevalence of urinary tract infection in children group was significantly higher than that in infant group (P<0.05). There was no significant difference in the rates of bilaterality and in the sex ratio between infant and children group. The success rate of operation was 100 percent in both groups. CONCLUSION: We suggest that the early surgical treatment in infants with bilateral and higher grade VUR may be of benefit to the preservation of renal function and the decrease of renal parenchymal change.
Child* ; Cicatrix ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Infant* ; Male ; Prevalence ; Replantation ; Retrospective Studies ; Sex Ratio ; Ureter ; Urinary Tract Infections ; Vesico-Ureteral Reflux*

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Reference Values*

No abstract available.
Female ; Humans

We describe a 23-year-old man showing typically clinical and histological features of targetoid hemosiderotic hemangioma. About 35 cases of this newly-described entity have been reported since the first description by Santa Cruz and Aronherg in 1988. It is important to distinguish these tumors from patch stage Kaposi's sarcoma, retiform hemangioendothelioma and progressive lymphangioma.
Hemangioendothelioma ; Hemangioma* ; Humans ; Lymphangioma ; Sarcoma, Kaposi ; Young Adult

No abstract available.
Hematoma* ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging*

No abstract available.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging* ; Tuberculosis, Spinal*

Microvenular hemangioma (MH) is a recently described, uncommon, acquired vascular, tumor presenting clinically as a small reddish nodule in young and middle, aged individuals of either gender. Histologically, thin and irregularly branching small venules with inconspicouous lumia and without cellular atypia are found widely throughout the dermis. The presence of histologic features of the collagen dissection and vascular tufts makes it necessary to differentiate MH with Kaposi's sarcoma and angioblastoma. As we are aware, the description of these two cases which showed the characteristic clinical and histologic features of MH, is the first report of MH in Korea.
Collagen ; Dermis ; Hemangioma ; Korea ; Sarcoma, Kaposi ; Venules