No abstract available.
Female ; Ovulation*

The femoral neck fracture having concomitant fracture of the femoral shaft occurs predaminantly in young man and have known to associate the serious complications. One of such factures is sometimes overlooked and is possibly due to a more obvious nature of the shaft fracture than that of the ipsilateral neck. Six cases of this type of combined fractures in ipsilateral femur are reported with the review of 1 iteratures. In six cases of the femoral neck fractures, three which were unrecognized at initial examiaation in early phase, resulting in serious residue as much as deformity and avascular necrosis of the femoral head, and other three were recognized in early at initial examination healed in good anatomic position and in due time. Through this observation it is stressed that early discovery and adaquate treatment of the fracture is the only solution to minimize the sequelae.
Congenital Abnormalities ; Femoral Neck Fractures ; Femur ; Femur Neck ; Head ; Neck ; Necrosis

No abstract available.
Hemorrhoids*

No abstract available.
Animals ; Immunohistochemistry* ; Neurons* ; Rats* ; Substantia Nigra*

No abstract available.
Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome*

Acute hematogenous osteomyelitis adjacent to hip, though uncommon, should be included in the differential diagnosis of the patients presenting symptoms suggestive of septic arthritis of hip. When it occurs in children, it is particularly serious, because the diagnosis at first may be very difficult to be made. Our observations on seven cases reported here suggest the following findings to be helpful for early differential diagnosis of osteomyelitis of innominate bones from septic hip. 1. Among 7 cases, 4 had lesions in ischium, and 3 in os ilii. 2. The initial diagnosis on admission in 3 cases out of 7 was wrongly made to be septic arthritis of hip. 3. Early accurate diagnosis is essential to initiate early treatment, and there by shortens the convalescent time and minimize sequelae. 4. The diagnosis could be made in the cases by clinical and roentgenographic findings, such as fever, pain nature, antalgic posture of hip together with range of hip motion, tender point around hip and positive soft tissue and bony X-ray findings, but K-ray taken on early stage of infection could not provide any clue until bone lesion appears. 5. Gentle passive motion of hip is more easily permitted without eliciting severe pain and restriction of motion in the infection of innominate bone than in the septic hip. This also can be another clue to differentiate the acute osteomyelitis of innominate bone from septic arthritis of the hip.
Arthritis, Infectious ; Child ; Diagnosis ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Fever ; Hip ; Humans ; Ischium ; Osteomyelitis ; Pelvic Bones ; Posture

The effect of exercise on plasma insulin, free fatty acid, and glucose uptake and glycogen concentration in soleus, and intravenous glucose tolerance of streptozotocin treated, diabetic Sprague-Dawley rats were studied. Diabetic-trained animals were subjected to a regular program of treadmill running for 4 weeks. Seventy-two hours after the last training session, basal and insulin-stimulated glucose uptake was studied in incubated strips (about 20 mg) of soleus muscle in vitro. Glucose tolerance was measured with intravenous infusion of 0.5 g glucose/kg body weight. In diabetic rats, training was associated with increase glucose uptake in basal and maximal insulin concentrations, decreased fasting glucose concentrations, and increased muscle glycogen levels, but there were no changes in glucose tolerance curve and plasma insulin concentrations. These results suggest that regular running program for 4 weeks improve responsiveness of insulin on soleus muscle, but fails to cause improvement of impaired intravenous glucose tolerance in mild degree streptozotocin induced diabetic rats.
Animals ; Body Weight ; Exercise* ; Fasting ; Glucose Tolerance Test* ; Glucose* ; Glycogen ; In Vitro Techniques ; Infusions, Intravenous ; Insulin ; Muscle, Skeletal ; Plasma ; Rats* ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Running ; Streptozocin*

Tibial nonunion is often associated with the soft tissue atrophy and the local circulatory disturbance, so it is important to minimize the soft tissue injury and maintain the stability at fracture site for bone union. We reviewed 29 cases of subcortical onlay bone grafts and plate fixations for the nonunion and delayed union of tibial shafts, from Jan. 1988 through Jan. 1994. The results were as follows. 1. Twenty-nine patients who had nonunion of the tibia underwent subcortical cancellous onlay bone graft and plating, and 28 fractures(96.6%) went on to union. 2. Subcortical elevation or shingling of cortical bone fragments of the tibial cortex, is advocated to provide sound biological condition in atrophic soft tissue envelope. 3. Narrow DCP encouraged early motion and reliably promoted obtaining anatomical alignment. So, in treatment of protracted tibial nonunion, especially in an area with deficient soft tissue or unyielding scar tissue, subcortical onlay bone graft and plate fixation is very useful method, result in good union and no skin problem.
Atrophy ; Cicatrix ; Humans ; Inlays ; Methods ; Skin ; Soft Tissue Injuries ; Tibia ; Transplants

During development of central nervous system, cell proliferation, cell migration, cell differentiation and cell death are required. It has been reported that a number of cells are dying during development in the mammalian retinae examined so far, but the pattern of cell death has not been clarified yet. In addition. little has been studied on cell proliferation after birth. This study was conducted to identify histogenesis, cell death and cell proliferation in the retinae of the developing rats by light and electron microscopic methods as well as by immunohistochemical method using anti-proliferating cell nuclear antigen [PCNA] antiserum. The results were as follows : 1. In the developing rat, from postnatal 0 through 7 days, retina consisted of ganglion cell layer, inner plexiform layer and neuroblast layer. Neuroblast layer could be subdivided into three sublaminae : sublamina a, sublamina b and sublamina p, from postnatal 3 through 7 days. 2. From postnatal 10 days, retina consisted of ganglion cell layer, inner plexiform layer, inner nuclear layer, outer plexiform layer and outer nuclear layer. 3. Cells undergoing degeneration were observed from postnatal 0 to 13 days, and patterns of cell death were apoptosis, cytoplasmic degeneration and autophagic degeneration. 4. PCNA-immunoreactivity was seen in the cells located in sublaminae b and p of the neuroblast layer at postnatal 0 and 1 days. From postnatal 3 days PCNA immunoreactivity decreased. At 7-day-old rat, PCNA-Immunoreactive cells scattered in the distal part of sublamina p of the neuroblast layer.No immunoreactivity was observed from postnatal 10 days. These results demonstrate that retinal cell proliferation ends at postnatal 7 days, and histogenesis of retina is completed at postnatal 10 days, and superfluous cells during retinal development are eliminated by apoptosis, cytoplasmic degeneration and autophagic degeneration.
Animals ; Apoptosis ; Cell Death* ; Cell Differentiation ; Cell Movement ; Cell Proliferation* ; Central Nervous System ; Cytoplasm ; Ganglion Cysts ; Parturition* ; Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen ; Rats* ; Retina* ; Retinaldehyde

No abstract available.
Head* ; Knee* ; Necrosis*