Background: Hemophilia is the most common clotting disorder in the hereditary blood clotting disorders causing harm to health and psychology. The disease can lead to disability and leave the burden on families and society as well as the development of race\r\n', u"Objectives: To study the familial characteristics of haemophiliacs treated at Regional Hematology and Blood Transfusion Center of Hue Central Hospital. Subject and method: This was a prospective study. It included 48 patients diagnosed and treated Haemophilia A and B at Regional Hematology and Blood Transfusion Center of Hue Central Hospital from 7/2005 - 8/2007. Results: In 48 patients, there were 23 patients who had obviously familial history (included 12 families). They were siblings, cousins, maternal grandfathers or mother's brothers. Among 67 haemophiliacs, 23 haemophiliacs had been studied (34.32%), 30 haemophiliacs died of the disease (44.77%). Most of them died at childhood, below age of 15 years (80.64%). Conclusion: Numbers of deaths in the family was not related to the severity of the disease. The age of clinical detection, morphology, number, site, characteristics of haemorrhage as well as the level of articuar injures were not completely the same between the haemophiliacs of the same family. \r\n", u'\r\n', u'
Hemophilia A/ history ; pathology

China ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Pathology ; education ; history

A case of teratoma in a male patient aged 53 years old at the liver left lobe, hospitalized 25 November 2002 at The Hospital 198 was persented. It was a special form of mature teratoma of dermoid cyst. Macroscopically, it was a cyst of large size with thick fibroid shell, containing fat fluid, caseinous matter, hair, cartilaginous bone and even 3 molar teeth. Microscopically, it was a lining of cells of keratinoid epithelial scale tissue in the wall. Under the epithelial cover there was a conjunctive tissue inserted by sebacenous tissues, sweat gland tissues, hair alveoli and vessels with thick fibrous wall.
Teratoma ; Liver ; Diagnosis ; Pathology ; History

History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; International Agencies ; history ; Pathology ; education ; history

Anniversaries and Special Events ; Authorship ; China ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Pathology ; history ; Periodicals as Topic ; history

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Erythrocytes/*pathology ; Hematologic Diseases/blood/*diagnosis/history/pathology ; *Hematology/history/methods ; History, 20th Century ; Humans

Young-Jo, 83 years old, was the longest lived king of the Chosun Dynasty. Seungjeongwon Ilgi gives more detail about the diseases and prescriptions of Young-Jo. We could close look at what the Annals of the Chosun Dynasty just described that king received medical attention. In inspecting Jung-Jo's constitution, to examine his medical history is very important. Yong-jo had a weak constitution, but he was always concerned about health care. Youn-jo complained of colic syndrom and heart fire when young; ascris and shoulder pain since middle age; severe fatigue and gait disturbance caused by edema in his latter years. During his last 20 years, he had taken and resorted to Ken-GongTang, the reason was not psychological disposion, but physical disease. Also, Yong-Jo's condition just before death could be assumed in Seungjeongwon Ilgi and Jonhyeongak Ilgi. According to continuous complaints such as edema of the lower limbs, faint(lethargy) and eating disorder caused by abnormal rising of GI (anorexia), we could presume that the cause of death was uremia. In addition, it has significance to correct feasible misconceaption about the cause of death grounded on The Annals of the Chosun Dynasty.
Attitude to Health ; *Cause of Death ; Edema/history/pathology ; *Famous Persons ; Fatigue/history ; History, 18th Century ; Humans ; Korea ; Uremia/history/pathology

Over the decades, there has been a great deal progress in the understanding of gallstones owing to the continuous efforts aimed at elucidating their pathogenesis. An optimal classification system is needed because the etiology, pathogenesis, clinical features and treatment can be different according to the classes. Currently, two systems are widely used: one from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) -International Workshop on Pigment Gallstone Disease held in 1981 and the other from Gallstone Research Committee from the Japanese Society of Gastroenterology in 1984. However, some stones cannot be classified into either of these categories. In addition, several terms have been not been clearly defined. In several aspects, both systems need to be reevaluated. This paper reviewed the classification systems and terms that are currently used for gallstones, and raises several points that need to be reconsidered. In the near future, large scaled prospective studies on gallstones need to be carried out on the basis of the external color, chemistry, cutting surface, etc. Only when these studies are completed can an ideal classification system for gallstones be expected.
Cholelithiasis/*classification/history/pathology ; History of Medicine, 19th Cent. ; History of Medicine, 20th Cent. ; Human ; Korea ; *Terminology

The oriental medicine differs from the western medicine in many aspects. Especially they show great differences in their understnding of diseases as the object of medical science. But their differences were often exaggerated and accentuated. In this article I would like to reveal various aspects of oriental medicine which have often been ignored by schematic comparison with the western medicine. They are as follows. 1) The pathology theory of the oriental medicine has changed as the time has gone by. 2) The pathology theory of the oriental medicine is not based on single paradigm. 3) Nosologic problems in oriental and western medicine.
Asia ; English Abstract ; History of Medicine, Modern ; Pathology/*history ; Philosophy, Medical/*history

The concept of modern pathology had not been present in Korea until it was introduced through the Japanese pathologists who came to Korea to work as staff pathologists at (Chong-doc bu) Hospital in 1913. Two prominent Japanese pathologists at that time were Dr. Inamoto and Dr. Tokumitzu who taught pathology at Hospital affiliated Medical Institute. Department of Pathology was established at Kekjo Medical College in 1916 and at Keijo Imperial University Faculty of Medicine in 1926. In the private medical school, Severance Union Medical School, the pathology was taught by Japanese and American Physicians until Dr. Il Sun Yun established Department of Pathology in 1929. Papers on histopathological description of disease started to appear in the medical literature, Chosen Medical Journal that was first issued just after Japanese occupation of Korea in 1910. Many diseases of Koreans had been scientifically documented in medical literature since 1911 by the leading role of faculty pathologists of Keijo Medical College and Keijo Imperial University Faculty of Medicine until 1940. Korean students started to join Pathology Department of above two national medical schools since 1920. However, Professor Il Sun Yun should be the first Korean pathologist who did his best to promote pathology in Korea during the Japanese occupation and after Independence, that lasted from 1927 to 1980. He was trained at Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine in Japan and returned home to take the position of assistant professor of pathology at Keijo Imperial University Faculty of Medicine in 1927. He then became the first chaired professor of pathology at Severance Union Medical College and established a prominent Department of Pathology there. He established Korean Medical Journal in Korean language during Japanese occupation and also became the editor of the Journal that lasted for 10 years. After the end of the second world war he played a leading role in founding the Korean Society of Pathologists in 1946 and became the first president and served for 10 years until 1956. The last part of this paper summarizes all available papers of pathology published during a period of 1911 to 1945.
Education, Medical/*history ; English Abstract ; History of Medicine, 20th Cent. ; Korea ; Pathology/*history