No abstract available.
Drug Therapy*

Herpes zoster is a viral infection of the dorsal nerve root causing painful vesicular eruptions over the skin or mucous membrane of the affected nerve. It is less well known to the dermatologists that berpes zoster causcs bladder dysfunction when the zoster affects the lumbar and sacral spinal ganglia. The authors observed a case of herpes zoster involving the S 2~4 dermatomes, associated with bladder atony in a 58 year old male who had received rad.iotherapy and chemotherapy for his malignant Iymphoma of lymphocytic type. Conservative treatment with urinary catheterization and antibiotics resulted in complete recovery of the bladder function about 3 weeks later. He had also ichthyosiform skin lesions on his back and lower extremities which, by carefuI history and histopathological examination, proved to be acquired ichthyosis.
Anti-Bacterial Agents ; Drug Therapy ; Ganglia, Spinal ; Herpes Zoster* ; Humans ; Ichthyosis* ; Lower Extremity ; Lymphoma* ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Mucous Membrane ; Skin ; Urinary Bladder ; Urinary Bladder, Neurogenic* ; Urinary Catheterization ; Urinary Catheters

No abstract available.
Autoantibodies* ; Incidence* ; Interferon-gamma*

No abstract available.
Blood Platelets* ; Humans* ; Membranes* ; Plasminogen*

No abstract available.
Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor* ; Granulocytes* ; Humans* ; Macrophages* ; Methotrexate*

No abstract available.
Colorectal Neoplasms* ; Fluorouracil* ; Humans ; Interferon-gamma*

No abstract available.
Bone Marrow Transplantation* ; Bone Marrow* ; Erythroid Precursor Cells* ; Pathology*

A total of 47 patients with a diagnosis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma was treated in Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Seoul National University Hospital during last 4 years. Of the 47 patients, 23(49%) had undifferentiated carcinoma, 20(43%) had squamous cell carcinoma, while 4(8%) had lymphoepithelioma. Most of the patients(71%) has Stage IV disease, cervical lymph node metastases were found in 36(77%) and distant metastasis was found in 1 at the time of diagnosis. Complete response rate after radiotherapy for 47 patients of nasopharyngeal carcinoma was 85.1%. The overall actuarial 3 year survival rates was 0.718 and the disease free actuarial 3 year survival rates was 0.468. Nodal involvement and symptom duration were statistically significiant influencing factors for actuarial survival rate. Treatment failures were found in 20 patients (42.6%), local recurrence only in 6(30%), local and neck recurrence in 3(15%), local recurrence with metastasis in 4(20%) and distant metastasis only in 7(35%). Local failures were more frequent in the patients with cranial nerve symptoms (P=0.032). Distant metastases were more frequent with T4 lesions (P=0.047), and with nodal involvement (P<0.01). Retreatment after the tumor recurrence was chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy, two patients refreated for local recurrence were alive without evidence of disease for more than 19 and 44 months after retreatment.
Carcinoma ; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell ; Cranial Nerves ; Diagnosis ; Drug Therapy ; Humans ; Lymph Nodes ; Neck ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Radiation Oncology ; Radiotherapy* ; Recurrence ; Retreatment ; Seoul ; Survival Rate ; Treatment Failure

No abstract available.
Leukemia*

No abstract available.
Drug Therapy, Combination* ; Multiple Myeloma*