Primary intimal sarcoma of the pulmonary artery is a rare disease and there has been no report of any case originating from the pulmonary valve. Recently we experienced a 62 year-old female patient who had a primary intimal sarcoma of the pulmonary valve with distal metastasis. She was brought to medical attention due to exertional dyspnea facial edema productive coughing and general weakness for 1 month. Chest CT and echocardi-ography suggest an acute pulmonary thromboembolism or tumor. Exploration showed a large polypoid mass arising from the pulmonary leaflets and multiple masses on distal pulmonary arteries. We replaced the pulmonary valve and reconstructed the pulmonary artery. She received radiotherapy 1 month postoperatively and now 4 months after surgery she has begun receiving chemotherapy.
Cough ; Drug Therapy ; Dyspnea ; Edema ; Female ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Pulmonary Artery ; Pulmonary Embolism ; Pulmonary Valve* ; Radiotherapy ; Rare Diseases ; Sarcoma* ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Pneumomediastinum, also referred to as mediastinal emphysema or Hamman's syndrome, is defined as the presence of air or gas within the fascial planes of the mediastinum. Superior extension of air into the cervicofacial subcutaneous space via communications between the mediastinum and cervical fascial planes or spaces occurs occasionally. Pneumomediastinum frequently results from blunt tracheobronchial lesions and esophageal injuries. However, in most cases, the origin of pneumomediastnum remains unclear. In some cases, it is attributed to the Macklin effect. We report a case of patient with pneumomediastinum, that presented with Mackin effect on chest computed tomographic scan.
Humans ; Mediastinal Emphysema* ; Mediastinum ; Thorax*

No abstract available.
Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous ; Parotid Gland

The Kawasaki disease has been reported worldwide since the first description in 1967 in Japan. Approximately 20% of the children with untreated Kawasaki disease are believed to develop coronary artery aneurysm of which 2-3% progress to coronary artery stenosis. The Kawasaki disease rarely affects adults and accordingly, there have been only a few cases reported in literatures. The present case describes a successful surgical treatment of a 43-year-old female patient with coronary artery aneurysm and stenosis, which resulted from an episode of the Kawasaki disease that occurred 20 years earlier. The patient was well at 5 months followup.
Adult* ; Aneurysm ; Child ; Constriction, Pathologic ; Coronary Artery Bypass ; Coronary Disease* ; Coronary Stenosis ; Coronary Vessels ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Japan ; Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome*

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between tooth loss and sub-clinical atherosclerosis in Korean adults. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The subjects were part of a cohort study conducted in Ansan city by the Korea University medical school as part of the Korean Genome project. 749 subjects over than 40 years old were evaluated. After taking panoramic radiography, the amount of tooth loss was calculated. The intima-media thickness (IMT) was assessed by using ultrasonography at the common carotid artery. Traditional cardiovascular risk factors for atherosclerosis were also evaluated. The relationship between tooth loss and the IMT was evaluated using ANOVA with Scheffe's multiple comparison method in univariate analysis. Multiple regression analysis was also performed to determine the significance between the IMT and tooth loss. RESULTS: With age, tooth loss increased, but there was no significant increase in other traditional cardiovascular risk factors. Univariate analysis revealed the IMT to be positively related with the amount of tooth loss. Regression analysis of the IMT in the anterior and posterior tooth loss revealed that only the posterior tooth loss was significantly related with the IMT at all sites of the common carotid artery (right far wall, P = .015; left far wall, P = .008; right near wall, P < .001; left near wall, P = .001). CONCLUSION: This study verified the positive relationship between the increased tooth loss at the posterior area and the accumulation of atheroma in arteries.
Adult ; Arteries ; Atherosclerosis ; Carotid Artery, Common ; Carotid Intima-Media Thickness ; Cohort Studies ; Genome ; Humans ; Korea ; Plaque, Atherosclerotic ; Radiography, Panoramic ; Risk Factors ; Schools, Medical ; Tooth ; Tooth Loss

Splenosis is the autotransplantation of fragmented splenic tissue that occurs as a result of traumatic splenic rupture or a routine splenectomy. Generally, splenic implants are numerous and located within the peritoneal cavity; peritoneum, omentum and abdominal viscera, and occasionally on extra-abdominal surfaces. Splenic implants are rarely clinically significant and are incidental found during an abdominal operation, but occasionally mimics primary or metastatic tumors, as seen on radiological studies. Herein, the case of a patient in whom multiple abdominal masses were identified as splenosis, but the initial radiographic finding was that of carcinomatosis peritonei.
Autografts ; Carcinoma* ; Humans ; Omentum ; Peritoneal Cavity ; Peritoneum ; Splenectomy ; Splenic Rupture ; Splenosis* ; Stomach Neoplasms* ; Viscera

Chondroblastoma is an uncommon, benign, cartilaginous neoplasm originating in an epiphysis or apophysis of a long tubular bone. The rib is an unusual site for chondroblastoma. The authors describe a case of chondroblastoma of the rib and present a brief review of the literature.
Bone Neoplasms ; Chondroblastoma* ; Epiphyses ; Ribs*

Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPLS) was diagnosed in a 64-year-old male who was admitted to our hospital with dyspnea. The clinical and radiological examinations showed pulmonary thromboembolism, and so thromboembolectomy was performed. Abdominal distention rapidly developed several days later, and the abdominal computed tomography (CT) abdominal scan revealed thrombus within the superior mesenteric artery with small bowel and gall bladder distension. Cholecystectomy and jejunoileostomy were performed, and gall bladder necrosis and small bowel infarction were confirmed. The anticardiolipin antibody was positive. Anticoagulant agents and steroids were administered, but the patient expired 4 weeks after surgery due to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). We report here on a case of catastrophic APLS with manifestations of pulmonary thromboembolism, rapidly progressing GB necrosis and bowel infarction.
Antibodies, Anticardiolipin ; Anticoagulants ; Antiphospholipid Syndrome* ; Cholecystectomy ; Dyspnea ; Humans ; Infarction ; Male ; Mesenteric Artery, Superior ; Middle Aged ; Necrosis ; Pulmonary Embolism ; Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult ; Steroids ; Thrombosis ; Urinary Bladder

Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPLS) was diagnosed in a 64-year-old male who was admitted to our hospital with dyspnea. The clinical and radiological examinations showed pulmonary thromboembolism, and so thromboembolectomy was performed. Abdominal distention rapidly developed several days later, and the abdominal computed tomography (CT) abdominal scan revealed thrombus within the superior mesenteric artery with small bowel and gall bladder distension. Cholecystectomy and jejunoileostomy were performed, and gall bladder necrosis and small bowel infarction were confirmed. The anticardiolipin antibody was positive. Anticoagulant agents and steroids were administered, but the patient expired 4 weeks after surgery due to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). We report here on a case of catastrophic APLS with manifestations of pulmonary thromboembolism, rapidly progressing GB necrosis and bowel infarction.
Antibodies, Anticardiolipin ; Anticoagulants ; Antiphospholipid Syndrome* ; Cholecystectomy ; Dyspnea ; Humans ; Infarction ; Male ; Mesenteric Artery, Superior ; Middle Aged ; Necrosis ; Pulmonary Embolism ; Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult ; Steroids ; Thrombosis ; Urinary Bladder

A choriocarcinoma is a rapidly invasive, widely metastatic, human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG)-producing neoplasm, which are usually intrauterine and gestational. A primary gastric choriocarcinoma is very rare, and its pathogenesis is still uncertain. A 56-year old man presented with gastrointestinal bleeding and a gastric mass, clinically suspicious of a gastric adenocarcinoma. Thus, a radical subtotal gastrectomy and lymph node dissection, with a reconstruction, was performed. The resected specimen was found to be a Borrmann type I tumor, and a histological examination showed it to be a primary gastric choriocarcinoma, with an associated adenocarcinoma and a syncytiotrophoblast, which was immunostained by human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG). The serum HCG level, on the 7th postoperative day, was found to be 2, 775 mIU/ml. Chemotherapy was administered two months after surgery, as the patient refused chemotherapy during the immediate post operative period. At that time, the tumor rapidly recurred and disseminated to the liver. The patient died three months after the initial diagnosis.
Adenocarcinoma ; Choriocarcinoma* ; Chorionic Gonadotropin ; Diagnosis ; Drug Therapy ; Female ; Gastrectomy ; Hemorrhage ; Humans ; Liver ; Lymph Node Excision ; Pregnancy ; Trophoblasts