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Colon* ; Diverticulitis*

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Leg* ; Skin*

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Leg*

OBJECTIVES: The reported incidence rate of varicella infection in Jeju-do is higher compared with the national average. This study aimed to examine varicella vaccination history and evaluate clinical manifestation of varicella cases in Jeju-do.METHODS: Based on the guideline suggested by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), two epidemic investigations for varicella infection were conducted in the first half of 2017. The history of varicella vaccination was confirmed using the Integrated Control System for Diseases and Health operated by the KCDC.RESULTS: Out of a total of 60 elementary school children as the study subjects, all had been previously vaccinated against varicella. Twenty cases (33%) showed mild clinical manifestations and no complications.CONCLUSIONS: As the government of Jeju-do has supplied a single-labeled vaccine since 2011, there is a need to evaluate the type of vaccination failure such as primary or secondary.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; Chickenpox Vaccine ; Chickenpox ; Child ; Humans ; Immunization ; Incidence ; Jeju-do ; Korea ; Vaccination

OBJECTIVES: The reported incidence rate of varicella infection in Jeju-do is higher compared with the national average. This study aimed to examine varicella vaccination history and evaluate clinical manifestation of varicella cases in Jeju-do. METHODS: Based on the guideline suggested by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), two epidemic investigations for varicella infection were conducted in the first half of 2017. The history of varicella vaccination was confirmed using the Integrated Control System for Diseases and Health operated by the KCDC. RESULTS: Out of a total of 60 elementary school children as the study subjects, all had been previously vaccinated against varicella. Twenty cases (33%) showed mild clinical manifestations and no complications. CONCLUSIONS: As the government of Jeju-do has supplied a single-labeled vaccine since 2011, there is a need to evaluate the type of vaccination failure such as primary or secondary.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; Chickenpox Vaccine ; Chickenpox* ; Child* ; Humans ; Immunization ; Incidence ; Jeju-do ; Korea* ; Vaccination*

PURPOSE: To setup procedures of quality assurance (QA) for implementing intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) clinically, report QA procedures performed for one patient with prostate cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS: P3IMRT (ADAC) and linear accelerator (Siemens) with multileaf collimator are used to implement IMRT. At first, the pos itional accuracy, reproducibility of MLC, and leaf transmission factor were evaluated. RTP commissioning was performed again to considers mall field effect. After RTP recommissioning, a test plan of a C-s haped PTV was made using 9 intensity modulated beams, and the calculated isocenter dose was compared with the measured one insolid water phantom. As a patient-specific IMRT QA, one patient with prostate cancer was planned us ing 6 beams of total 74 segmented fields. The same beams were used to recalculate dose in a solid water phantom. Dose of these beams were meas ured with a 0.015cc microionization chamber, a diode detector, films, and a narray detector and compared with calculated one. RESULTS: The pos itioning accuracy of MLC was about 1 mm, and the reproducibility was around 0.5 mm. For leaf transmission factor for 10 MV photon beams, interleaf leakage was measured 1.9% and midleaf leakage 0.9% relative to 10x10 cm2 open filed. Penumbra meas ured with film, diode detector, microionization chamber, and conventional 0.125 cc chambers howed that 80~20% penumbra width meas ured with a 0.125cc chamber was 2 mm larger than that of film, which means a 0.125 ccionization chamber was unacceptable for meas urings mall fields uch like 0.5 cm beamlet. After RTP recommissioning, the discrepancy between the meas ured and calculated dose profile for a small field of 1x1 cm2 size was less than 2%. The isocenter dose of the test plan of C-s haped PTV was meas ured two times with microionization chamber in solid phantom showed that the errors upto 12% for individual beam, but total dose delivered were agreed with the calculated within 2%. The transverse dose distribution meas ured with EC-L film was agreed with the calculated one ingeneral. The isocenter dose for the patient meas ured in solid phantom was agreed within 1.5%. Off-axis dose profiles of each individual beam at the position of the central leaf measured with film and array detector were found that at out-of-the-field region, the calculated dose underestimates about 2%, at inside-the-field the meas ured one was agreed within 3%, except some position. CONCLUSION: It is necessary more tight quality control of MLC for IMRT relative to conventional large field treatment and to develop QA procedures to check intensity pattern more efficiently. At the conclusion, we did setup an appropriate QA procedures for IMRT by a series of verifications including the measurement of absolute dose at the isocenter with a microionization chamber, film dosimetry for verifying intensity pattern, and another meas urement with an array detector for comparing off-axis dose profile.
Film Dosimetry ; Humans ; Particle Accelerators ; Prostatic Neoplasms ; Quality Control ; Water

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Germ Cells* ; Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal* ; Prognosis*

Unilateral absence of a pulmonary artery is an uncommon anomaly, which presents as an isolated lesion or in combination with other congenital heart disease such as TOF or PD^. We encountered three cases of isolated unilateral absence of a pulmonary artery;one was left pulmonary artery agenesis with right sided aortic arch and the others were right pulmonary artery agenesis with left sided aortic arch. Plain chest radiograph showed considerable loss of unilateal lung volume and lack of ipsilateral hilar shadow. Pulmonary angiogram which was done in two cases, revealed proximal interruption of a pulmonary artery. Chest CT was done in only one case, on which right pulmonary artery was absent and was replaced by adipose tissue. CT with its clean demonstration pulmonary artery without any evidence of aquired obstruction of a pulmonary artery by pulmonary embolism or tumor invasion, maybe a valuable method for evaluaton of the unilateral absence of a pulmonary artery.
Adipose Tissue ; Aorta, Thoracic ; Heart Defects, Congenital ; Lung ; Pulmonary Artery* ; Pulmonary Embolism ; Radiography, Thoracic ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed

PURPOSE: To assess relative diagnostic value of Ga-67 planar, Ga-67 SPECT, and CT images for detection of head and neck tumors and cervical lymph node metastasis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Thirty eight patients of pathologically proven head and neck tumors including squamous cell carcinomas(n=32), malignant lymphomas(n=3), undifferentiated carcinomas(n=2), adenocarcinomas(n=l) were enrolled in this study. Ga-67 planar and SPECT images were obtained with intravenous injection of 5mCi of Ga-67 citrate. On the basis of 30 and 20 mm in the greatest diameter of cervical lymph nodes, we compared lesion detectability of Ga-67 planar, SPECT, and CT. RESULTS: Thirty eight cases of head and neck tumors were detected in 29 cases(76.3%) with Ga-67 planar image, 37 cases(97.3%) with Ga-67 SPECT, and 32 cases(84.2%) with CT. 25 of 32 squamous cell carcinomas were positive with Ga-67 planar image and all of 32 cases with Ga-67 SPECT. Both of two undifferentiated carcinomas were positive with Ga-67 planar and SPECT images. Two of three malignant lymphomas were positive with Ga-67 planar image and all of three with Ga-67 SPECT. Eight of nine tumors were negative with Ga-67 planar image and those were less than 30ram. One case of adenocarcinoma was negative with Ga-67 planar and SPECT images. Seven of nine lymph nodes greater than 30mm were positive with Ga-67 planar image and all of nine with Ga-67 SPECT. On the basis of 20mm in greatest diameter, 16 of 21 lymph nodes greater than 20 mm were positive with Ga-67 planar and SPECT images. CONCLUSION: CT providing better resolution than Ga-67 scan permitted analysis of size and location of metastatic cervical nodes, however primary tumors of oral cavity, vocal cord, and nasopharynx were often not detected on CT when metallic and motion artifacts were present, where Ga-67 SPECT was useful. Ga-67 SPECT enabled better anatomical localization than Ga-67 planar image and was useful in detection of lymph nodes greater than 30 mm.
Adenocarcinoma ; Artifacts ; Carcinoma ; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell ; Citric Acid ; Head* ; Humans ; Injections, Intravenous ; Lymph Nodes ; Lymphoma ; Mouth ; Nasopharynx ; Neck* ; Neoplasm Metastasis* ; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon ; Vocal Cords