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Endocrine System Diseases* ; Nuclear Medicine*

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Autoradiography* ; Brain* ; Rats, Wistar* ; Receptors, Muscarinic*

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Polyhydramnios*

A rare case of mesothelial/monocytic incidental cardiac excrescences (cardiac MICE) is described in the aspect of pathological interest. This cardiac lesion is pathologically characterized by exuberant proliferation of mixed mesothelia and monocytes and might be misdiagnosed as metastatic carcinoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, and histiocytoid hemangioma, if the disease is not in the minds of pathologists. The reactive nodular hyperplasia due to irritation to mesothelia by various causes is a most prevailing pathogenetic mechanism. About 20 cases have been reported in the worldwide literature. A 67-year-old female patient presented with cough and dyspnea for 2 months, without any history of previous cardiac operation. 2D echocardiography of the heart revealed moderate amount of pericardial effusion with posterior wall thickening. Under the impression of metastatic malignancy, pericardiostomy was performed. Grossly, the tissue was dark hemorrhagic and friable and the histologic sections revealed the solid tumor-like proliferation of round to polygonal histiocytic cells admixed with small cuboidal mesothelial cells which formed strips and tubular arrays. They were found within the fibrinous network and there were scattered empty vacuolar spaces. Immunohistochemical staining confirmed their biphasic nature with the CD68 positivity of the histiocytes and the cytokeratin positivity of the cuboidal cells. Factor VIII positivity was not detected in any cell components. The lesion was considered the monocytic and mesothelial proliferation of reactive nature, so-called cardiac MICE in the pericardial cavity. We report a typical case of so-called MICE first in the Korean literature.
Aged ; Animals ; Cellular Structures ; Cough ; Dyspnea ; Echocardiography ; Factor VIII ; Female ; Fibrin ; Heart ; Hemangioma ; Histiocytes ; Humans ; Hyperplasia ; Keratins ; Mice ; Monocytes ; Pericardial Effusion ; Pericardial Window Techniques ; Rhabdomyosarcoma

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Collagen Type IV* ; Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome* ; Ventricular Function, Left*

Two patients with Kienbocks disease were treated with microvascular loop graft to obtain the neovascularization of the avascular lunate. After each follow-up of forty-six months and eleven months, their results were complete relief of pain, definite decrease of sclerotic change in the radiologic finding and restoration of normal range of motion. This procedure is considered as a good method to help for the treatment of the Kienbocks disease.
Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Methods ; Osteonecrosis ; Reference Values ; Transplants

The authors have studied 60 cases of back pain with respect to diagnostic accuracy of myelography with metrizamide from January, 1983 to Decembar, 1984 at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University. The results were as followes; 1. Of the 60 cases, 57 cases (95%) showed excellent and good findings of myelography. 2. In case of the marginal clearance of the nerve-sleeve in myelography, the excellent finding was 93.3%.3. The side effect of myelography was slight and 44% of all patients complained of headache, which disappeared within 24 hours after onset in 92% of them. 4. The accuracy rate of myelography with metrizamide was 89. 2%.
Back Pain ; Clinical Study ; Headache ; Humans ; Metrizamide ; Myelography ; Spinal Canal

A clinical study of traumatic amputation by railroad accidents was made an 124 patients with 154 amputee, who had been treated at Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, National Seoul Hospital, during the 4 years period from January 1976 to December 1979. The results of this study are as follows: 1. The ratio of male to female was 9 to 1. The 3rd decade of age group showed the hightest number of accident causalties, as much as 37.1%. 2. Causalties showes a maximum during the sprlng (37.1%) and a minimum during winter. 3. The most common injured sites of the amputee were B–K in 44 cases among 154 cases of the amputee. 4. Considering the number of the multiple amputee in 26 casee among 124 cases, frequently they developed in 2 sites with 22 cases, 3 sites with 4 cases. 5. The frequent fracture sites with combined amputation were 18 cases of the pelvic bone, 12 cases of femur in amputation of the lower extremity. 6. Our methods of treatment were debridement, debridement and primary skin closure, debridement with open amputation, circular amputation, closed amputation with skin graft, and closed amputation. 7. The major complications were phantom limb in 108 cases (70.1%), infection in 44 cases (28.6%). 8. The most frequent infectious agent was pseudomonas (16 cases).
Amputation ; Amputation, Traumatic ; Amputees ; Clinical Study ; Debridement ; Female ; Femur ; Humans ; Lower Extremity ; Male ; Pelvic Bones ; Phantom Limb ; Pseudomonas ; Railroads ; Seoul ; Skin ; Transplants