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Clinical Study ; Extremities ; Fractures, Spontaneous

Osteochondritis dissecans occurs most commonly in knee joint and often in elbow, ankle, shoulder, hip than in other joint. In osteochondiritis dissecans, an area of subchondral bone undergoes avascular necrosis and degenerative change ususlly occurs in cartilage overlying it. During the course of disease, unless interrupted by treatment or spontaneous healing, the necrotic bone and cartilage seperates from adjacent bone and cartilage and together becomes loose body. To promote healing, the proper treatment is necessary before degenerative change developes. The authors reviewed 11 cases of osteochondritis dissecans which recieved treatment at Severance hospital from January 1972 to December 1981. The results were obtained as follows: 1. The incidence of osteochondritis dissecans in male was a little more frequent than that of female and 50% were observed in the age of 16 to 30 years. 2. The most common symptom and sign was pain and limitation of motion, instability senastion, tenderness, snapping sound in order of frequency. 3. The most common area involved was the knee in 9 cases, 5 cases involved the medial femoral condyle, 4 cases involved the lateral femoral condyle. The ankle and elbow was 1 case for each. 4. Eight(72.7%) of 11 cases had history of trauma. 5. Among 9 cases of knee inlovement, 5 (55.6%) cases were associated with rupture of meniscus. 6. The methods of treatment were as follows. Conservative..................................................................1 Operative Curettage and drilling........................................................6 Excision......................................................................3 Curettage and bone graft.......................................................1 Internal fixation..............................................................1 7. Conservative treatment was performed in one case, but failed. So, all 11 cases recieved operative treatment and obtained satisfactory results in 72.8%.
Ankle ; Cartilage ; Curettage ; Elbow ; Female ; Hip ; Humans ; Incidence ; Joints ; Knee ; Knee Joint ; Male ; Necrosis ; Osteochondritis Dissecans ; Osteochondritis ; Rupture ; Shoulder

Birth injury is defined as any condition that affects the fetus adversely during the labor or delivery. These traumatic injuries are subdivided further into those that from hypoxia and mechanical factors. We analyzed 57 patients of birth trauma including fractures, nerve injuries and head injuries during the delivery at Severance Hospital from Jan. 1980. to Dec. 1985 and 24 patients which were transfered from other hospital after delivery and the following results were obtained. 1. The rates of birth trauma in our hospital were 0.36% including clavicle fractures 0.27%,femoral fractures 0.006%, brachial plexus injuries 0.031%, skull fractures 0.025% and intracranial hemorrhage 0.025%. 2. The site of clavicle fractures were all middle one third, and 71.4% of cases were displaced. 3. Five cases of brachial plexus injuries were found, and each type was Erb's palsy 3 cases, Klumpke's palsy 1 case and whole arm palsy 1 case. Three cases were recovered completely and 2 cases were recovered partially. 4. Methods of delivery were as followed; normal delivery 50.6%, breech delivery 3.7%, forcep 7.5%, vacuum 21.0%, and Cesarian section 17.2%. 5. The primipara was 65.4% of the patients of birth trauma. 6. There was no statistical significances in the birth weight, head circumferences, and chest circumferences of the patients comparing to the normal infants.
Anoxia ; Arm ; Birth Injuries ; Birth Weight ; Brachial Plexus ; Brachial Plexus Neuropathies ; Clavicle ; Craniocerebral Trauma ; Fetus ; Head ; Humans ; Infant ; Intracranial Hemorrhages ; Paralysis ; Parturition ; Skull Fractures ; Surgical Instruments ; Thorax ; Vacuum

Soft tissues, which are wide spread in body, are derived from a common primitive mesenchyme and the tumors are arising from them tend to closely resemble the prototype tissues in varying degree. Some soft tissue tumors have benign course, which can be cured by local excision and the others have malignant course being resistant to therapy and resulting in recurrence or metastasis to other organs or tissues. The authors reviewed 241 cases of soft tissue tumors which had been received treatment at Department of Orthopedic Surgery in Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine from January 1972 to December 1981. The results were obtained as follows: l. Among 241 cases of soft tissue tumors, 202 (83.8%) were benign and 39 (16.2%) were malignant. 2. The most common benign tumor was lipoma (68.7%) which was followed by hemangioma (8.4%), neurofibroma (6.4%) and schwannoma (5.0%) in decreasing order of incidence. Among malignant tumors, fibrosarcoma (35.9%) and rhabdomyosarcoma (33.3%) were the two most common ones, liposarcom (12.8%) and Kaposi's sarcoma (7.7%) being the next common group of tumors. 3. There was no apparent sex preference in benign soft tissue tumors, but in malignant tumors, male was affected about 3 times more common than female. 4. There was no predilection sites in benign tumors, which in malignant tumors, lower extremity was predominant site of occurence. 5. Metastasis of the malignant tumors was taken placed 13 cases (33.3%) at the time of admission, and the lung was the most common frequent site of metastasis. 6. Most of the benign tumors were treated by local excision, and malignant tumors were treated by wide excision with combination of chemotherapy and/or irradiation. 7. Local recurrence of benign tumors was developed in 12 (5.9%) out of 202 cases. 8. Among 19 cases, on follow up examination had been made, 13 survived more than 1 year and 2 cases longer than 5 years after surgery.
Clinical Study ; Drug Therapy ; Female ; Fibrosarcoma ; Follow-Up Studies ; Hemangioma ; Humans ; Incidence ; Lipoma ; Lower Extremity ; Lung ; Male ; Mesoderm ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Neurilemmoma ; Neurofibroma ; Orthopedics ; Recurrence ; Rhabdomyosarcoma ; Sarcoma, Kaposi

Clonorchiasis procucts diffuse dilatation of the small and medium sized intrahepatic bile ducts and its cholangiogram shows visualization of many bile ducts, especially, tertiary, quaternary, and more peripheral tributaries up to the 6th tributaries. In an attempt to clarify this cholangiographic sign quantitively, we counted the visualized smaller bile ducts in clonorchiasis and compared the number of visualized ducts in normal cholangiogram, recurrent pyogenic chlangitis and carcinoma of the extrahepatic ducts. In clonorchiasis the number of visualized smaller bile ducts was considerably geater than in normal subjects and recurrent pyogenic cholangitis, but there was no singnificant statistical differences in the number of visualized bile duct tributaries between clonorchiasis and carcinoma of the bile ducts. Thus it is considered that too many ducts sign is not a unique cholangiographic finding of clonorchiasis, but we believe that in the presence of this sign with other we l known cholangiographic findings, diagnosis of clonorchiasis is very easy.
Bile Ducts ; Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic ; Cholangitis ; Clonorchiasis* ; Diagnosis ; Dilatation

Cystic hygroma is a rare, endothelial lined cystic lesion of lymphatic origin which is encountered most often in children, usually at birth or early in life. The tumor is usually found in the neck and axilla. It is a soft, nontender, semifluctuant freely movable tumor of varying size filled with lymphatic fluid. The mass is sometimes pedunculated and is uaually multilocular, althouh it may be monolocular. The cystic hygroma of the right axilla and the upper arm, in a 4 month-old female infant, is presented with a review of the literature.
Arm ; Axilla ; Child ; Female ; Humans ; Infant ; Lymphangioma, Cystic ; Neck ; Parturition

Forty six cases of Legg-Calve-Perthes disease were reviewed clinically and roentgenographically in order to determine a satisfactory method of assessing the prognosis and to correlate the clinical and roentgenographical results. 1. The patients were children 3 to 12 years of age, with the peak at 6 years. The average age of visit (or diagnosis) was 6.7 years and that of onset was 6.4 years. 2. The total number of hips involved were 49, three cases being bilateral (6. 5%). Boys predominated girls by a ratio of 4.7:1 3. End results in children below 6 years of age were better than those in children above 6 years. The end results of treatment with the containment method were better than those with the noncontainment method. 4. The hips with excellent result had an average of 2.5mm. of uncovering of the femoral head at the time of diagnosis. The degree of uncovering increased as the roentgenographical result deteriorated, in the poor hips the average uncovering being 9mm. The average for the normal side was 2mm. The uncovering at onset is an accurate guide to the likely end result. 5. The Catterall assessment was of reliable prognostic value. In the excellent group, the majority of the hips belonged to Groups 1 and 2, In the poor group, there were no hips in Group 1 and increasing number of hips belonged to Groups 2,3 and 4. 6. The head at risk judged by Gage's sign, calcification of lateral epiphysis, lateral subluxation of the femoral head, and presence of a horizontal epiphyseal line indicated poor prognosis. 7. There was a close correlation between the severity of clinical features and the severity of residual roentgenographic findings.
Child ; Clinical Study ; Containment of Biohazards ; Diagnosis ; Epiphyses ; Female ; Head ; Hip ; Humans ; Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease ; Methods ; Prognosis

The os calcis is fractured more frequently than any other tarsal bone. Fractures involving subtalar joint can, be associated with prolonged and severe disability. So there is no universal agreement in the treatment of these fractures. Calcaneal fractures of 64 feet in 56 patients who were treated at Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine from Jan. 1971 to Dec. 1980 were analyzed in clinical and radiological aspects. The results obtained from this study were as follows; 1. Of 56 patients, 46 patients were male and 10 female. 2. The main cause of fractures of calcaneus was a fall from a height in 71.4 percents of cases, and spine injury was associated in 15 patients (26.8%) with calcaneal fractures. 3. The fractures were almostly closed (89.1%). 4. Fractures involving subtalar joint were in 52 feet (81.3%) and Rowe's type 5 were 38 fractures (39.4%). Of these type 5 fractures, 31 fractures were treated by closed reduction and axial pin fixation and then favourable results were obtained. 5. The most common complication after treatment was persistant foot pain. Pain beneath the lateral malleolus was the most common (8 feet), and correlated with the decrease of Bohler's angle.
Calcaneus ; Clinical Study ; Female ; Foot ; Humans ; Male ; Spine ; Subtalar Joint ; Tarsal Bones

Carpal tunnel syndrome is most commonly applied to compression neuropathy of the median nerve at the wrist, and is the most cause of buring pain, numbness and tingling in the thumb, index and long fingers, and in the lateral half of the palm, with or without progressive atrophy of the thenar muscles. Fifteen symptomatic hands of 13 patients of the carpal tunnel syndrome managed and operated at the Department of Orthopedic Surgery Severance Hospital from Jan. 1972 to Mar. 1982 were analized in clinical aspect. l. Among 13 patients, 3 were male and 10 were female. 2. Nine patients (69.2%) were affected on dominant hand. 3. Average duration of the symptoms was 17 months. 4. In electromyographic study, conduction delay of the motor fiber of the median nerve was found in 11 cases(73.3%) and sensory fiber in 13 cases(86.6%). Fibrillation of the thenar muscles was found in 11 cases(73.3%). 5. Ten patients, 11 cases were followed up from 11 months to 9 years and 11 months and 72.8% was improved.
Atrophy ; Carpal Tunnel Syndrome ; Clinical Study ; Female ; Fingers ; Hand ; Humans ; Hypesthesia ; Male ; Median Nerve ; Muscles ; Orthopedics ; Thumb ; Wrist

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Clinical Study