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Multiple trichoepithelioma is an uncommon skin disease with autosomal dominant transmission. A 21-year-old female ahd asymptomatic, flesh-colored, firm papules and nodules on the face, chest and back. Histopathologic examination showed multiple horn cysts and tumor islands composed of basaloid cells.
Animals ; Female ; Horns ; Humans ; Islands ; Skin Diseases ; Thorax ; Young Adult

Localized primary cuteneous nodular amyloidosis is the rarest form of the cutaneous amyloidosis, which appears as single or multiple nodules on the extremities, trunk, genitalia or face. A 44-Year-old woman had asymptomatic, translucent brown to pink papules and nodules on the toes for 5 years. Histopathologic exarnination showed deposition to pale, eosinophilic, amorphous material throughout the dermis, Under the electron microscope, the material consisted of straight, nonbranching, nonanastoimosing filaments. We thus made the diagnosis of nodular amyoidosis.
Adult ; Amyloidosis* ; Dermis ; Diagnosis ; Eosinophils ; Extremities ; Female ; Genitalia ; Humans ; Toes

No abstract available.
Myocutaneous Flap* ; Pressure Ulcer*

The elderly can experience a lot of stressful events and the stress acts as a various fluent that affects a well-being level, the self-contentment of lives. and the achievements by themselves. Also. the elderly are different from the young in many unexpressed stress and have diverse copings for perceived stress. Moreover. they mainly seem to use a problem-focused coping and an emotion-focused coping. To use whatever copings is to improve the quality of life in the old period and very important fact to achieve their ends. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Perceived Stress and the Ways of Coping in the Elderly and to gain the baseline data for development of nursing intervention program for improve to the quality of life in the elderly. The design of this study was a correlational study. The subjects of this study consisted of 230 of the elderly living in Pusan. The data was collected from 1st July, to 1st September. 2002. The instruments used for this study were 'Perceived Stress Scale(20items, 5point. scale)' developed by Kang In(990) and translated by Lee young-ja(1999). and its reliability is Cronbach's a= .89. Coping Scale(30items, 4point. scale. 14 items about a problem-focused coping, 16 items about an emotion-focused coping, 4 points scale) developed by Lazarus & Folkman (1984) and translated by Yang Young-hee(1998). The reliability of this study is Cronbach's a = .90. The data was analyzed by the SPSS WIN 10.0 program using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA & Scheffe test and Pearson's correlation coefficient. The results of this study were as follows: 1. The mean score of perceived stress was 31.75+/-0.23(Min 20, Max 100), which the item mean score was 1.59+/-.51(Min 1. Max 5). 2. The number of subjects in a problem-focused coping was 72(31.3%), the number of subjects in an emotion-focused coping was 158(68.7%) 3. There were statistically significant positive correlation between perceived stress and problem-focoused coping method and the more emotion-focoused coping method. (r = .180, r= .209, p< .05). It means the more stress, the more problem-focoused coping method and the more emotion-focoused coping method. 4. There was significant difference the score of perceived stress according to sex (F=-5.057, P=.000)marital status, (F=-2.909. P=.004) , economic level, (F=10.243, P=.000), paticipated meeting, (F=9.346, P=.000), perceived health status(F=5.1l7, P=.007). 5. There was significant difference the score of problem-focoused coping method according to age(F=14.200, P=.000), marital status (F=2.432, P=.0160), economic level (F=14.410, P=.000), monthly income, (F=8.300. P= .000), income resource (F=10.235, P=.000), educational level (F= 15.222, P= .000), occupation (F= 1.544, P=.04l), paticipated meeting (F=4.936, P= .008), perceived health status(F=5.655, P= .004). And there was significant difference the score of emotion-focoused coping method according to monthly income(F=4.781, P= .009), income resource (F=2.930, P= .035), educational level (F=6.101. P=.003), religion(F=2698, P= .032), paticipated meetings(F=7.285, P= .00l). As a result of the study, the elderly had a bit less stress and the two-thirds of the elderly used the emotion-focused coping. Thus, the more perceived stress, the more problem-focoused coping method and the more emotion-focoused coping method. Accordingly, to improve the quality of life of the elderly, there needs and applies a nursing intervention program that relieves the stress and use effective coping method.
Aged* ; Busan ; Humans ; Life Change Events ; Marital Status ; Nursing ; Occupations ; Quality of Life

The femoral neck fractures in children remain an unsolved problem because of lack of the optimal treatment followed by unpredictable, serious complications. Since the first trial of muscle pedicle bone graft by Judet(1962), Meyers et al(1973) refined and promoted this method for nonunion and as a primary procedure, and Baksi(1983, 1986) expanded its indication to post-traumatic avascular necrosis of the femoral head. Two cases of avascular necrosis and Two nonunion cases treated by quadratus femoris muscle pedicle bone graft at the Chonbuk National University Hospital from Jan. 1986 to Jun. 1988 were reported. The age of the patients varied from 6 to 16 years ; Follow-up ranged 6 to 29 months ; all cases were displaced transcervical fracture. In according to Ratliffs assessment, three cases showed satisfsctory results and one poor.
Child ; Femoral Neck Fractures ; Femur Neck ; Follow-Up Studies ; Head ; Humans ; Jeollabuk-do ; Methods ; Necrosis ; Transplants

Measurement of various portions of the corpus callosum was performed on magnetic resonance(MR) images of 114 subjects with no known or suspected corpus callosal disorders. Midsagittal T1-weighted images used for measurements and mean diameters of various portions in each age and sex group were obtained. Measures of five portions were made : (A) the anterio-posterior length, (B) the diameter of genu portion, (C) the diameter of splenium, (D) the diameter of and mid-body portion, (E) the diameter of narrow portion at the body of corpus callosum. The mean diameter in each gender group for A, B, C, D, and E were 68.8mm, 12.1mm, 12.3mm, 6.9mm, 4.1mm in male and 69.9mm, 12.0mm, 12.1mm, 6.4mm, 4.1mm in female, respectively. The groups of 0-9 years of both genders showed the minimum mean value in each portion.
Corpus Callosum* ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Sex Differentiation*

We report a patient with a cutis laxa-like, generalized PXE without systemic involvement. A 28-year-old woman had loose, pendulous skin of the neck, axillae, thighs, trunk and body folds which resulted in a prematurely aged appearance. She had no family history of related diseases. Histological examination showed considerable accumulations of swollen and irregularly clumped fibers in the middle and lower dermis and von Kossa s stain revealed calcium deposits along the altered elastic fibers.
Adult ; Axilla ; Calcium ; Dermis ; Elastic Tissue ; Female ; Humans ; Neck ; Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum* ; Skin ; Thigh

We report a patient with a cutis laxa-like, generalized PXE without systemic involvement. A 28-year-old woman had loose, pendulous skin of the neck, axillae, thighs, trunk and body folds which resulted in a prematurely aged appearance. She had no family history of related diseases. Histological examination showed considerable accumulations of swollen and irregularly clumped fibers in the middle and lower dermis and von Kossa s stain revealed calcium deposits along the altered elastic fibers.
Adult ; Axilla ; Calcium ; Dermis ; Elastic Tissue ; Female ; Humans ; Neck ; Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum* ; Skin ; Thigh

Aging process of the forehead in human reflects imbalance of the forehead muscles, forehead ptosis including eyebrow, and winkles of the forehead and glabella. Forehead lifting through bicoronal incision was adopted as an universal method to correct these problems of the aging process. In a view of the aesthetic surgery, however, there are several problems such as large scar alopecia, and numbness beyond the incision line in the scalp for the correction of the forehead aging stigma. During the part few decades, minimally invasive technology forced many surgical specialities to undergo dramatic changes. In plastic & reconstructive surgery also minimally invasive technology using endoscope gave many advantages. Therefore it has reduced morbidity rates and got greater patient acceptances for the forehead lifting. When we perform endoscopic blow-forehead lift to get a good results in oriental people, 1. it needs a extended periorbital dissection. 2. we have to concern lift in the lateral part of forehead rather than in medial forehead. 3. it needs more aggressive tissue modifications (e.g. myotomies, neurotomy) 4. it needs more strong fixation such as permanent microscrew fixation or cortical bone drill hole technique. We performed 13 cases of the eyebrow-forehead lifting by using endoscope from August 95 to September 96 followed up them from 3 to 12 months and obtained satisfactory result. We would like to report our experiences with literature review.
Aging ; Alopecia ; Cicatrix ; Endoscopes ; Eyebrows ; Forehead ; Humans ; Hypesthesia ; Lifting* ; Muscles ; Plastics ; Scalp