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Kidney Transplantation*

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Kidney Transplantation*

Cranial fasciitis is a rare fibroblastic tumor which shows a predilection for the scalp of young children. We present a child with a rapidly growing mass and lytic skull lesion which on pathologic evaluation was diagnosed as cranial fasciitis. Histologically this lesion was identical to nodular fasciitis which was typically found in the trunk and extremities of adults. Cranial fasciitis is unique in that it may present as a lytic lesion in the skull, but this disease entity is not widely known to pathologists and radiologists, and should be included in the differential diagnosis of fibroblastic lesion occurring in the cranium of young children.
Adult ; Child ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Extremities ; Fasciitis* ; Fibroblasts ; Humans ; Scalp ; Skull

A clinical review was made on 2,191 cases of general pediatric surgery under the age of 15 years which were operated upon at the Divisionof Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Chonnam University Hospital from January 1988 to December 1997. The number of operations in pediatric age were 13,144 (13.2%) out of total 99,555 operations at Chonnam University Hospital and the most prevalent age group was under 1 year of age (14.3%). The number of operations in Divisionof General Pediatric Surgery were 2,191 (16.7%) out of total 13,144 operations in pediatric age and the incidence of patients under 1 year of age in general pediatric surgery was 42.9% (941/2,191). The prevalent diseases under 1 month of age were anorectal malformations (20.6%) and hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (20.3%) and between 1 month to 1 year of age were inguinal hernia (32.4%) and intussusception (19.6%). The total motality rate in neonatal intensive care unit was 31.3%. Gastroschisis presented highest mortality.
Gastroschisis ; Hernia, Inguinal ; Humans ; Incidence ; Infant, Newborn ; Intensive Care, Neonatal ; Intussusception ; Jeollanam-do ; Mortality ; Pyloric Stenosis, Hypertrophic

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Abdomen* ; Humans

Contact urticaria designates a local immediate and/or delayed urticaria reaction, with swelling and redness at the sites of contact with certain agents. Fruits are the frequently causative agent for immunologically mediated contact urticaria. We report herein a contact urticaria occurring in a 20-year-old male immediately aftar contact with peach and plum, and after ingestion of plum, peach and apple. Swelling and itching sensation of lips and oral cavity, and tightness of chest were also developed ofter ingestion of plum, peach and apple.
Eating ; Fruit ; Humans ; Lip ; Male ; Mouth ; Prunus persica* ; Prunus domestica ; Pruritus ; Sensation ; Thorax ; Urticaria* ; Young Adult

Autograft using suction hlistered epidermis is one of the surgical therapeutic mod- alities of vitiligo, and has been successfully used by several authors. The maintenance of grafting pigment is belieued to be more important than repigmentation itself. To examine the maintenance of pigment, 22 vitiligo patients were treated by autograft using suction blistered epidermis and followed for 16.8 months. Repigmentation developed in 20 patients, Two patients were lost to follow up. Out of 20 patients, grafting pigment was maintained in 17 patients(85% ) and disappeared in three patients(15% ). By clinical subtype, the rates of maintenance were 100% in segmental type, 80% in localized type and 66% in generalized type. The best results were observed in a head and neck location and the worst rates and maintenance were in the hand. However, these differences were not statistically significant. likewise, age and sex were not factors in maintenance and repigrnentation. Based on this study, autograft using suction blistered epidermis appears to be a good therapeutic modality for stable vitiligo, particularly segmental vitiligo.
Autografts* ; Blister* ; Epidermis* ; Follow-Up Studies* ; Hand ; Head ; Humans ; Lost to Follow-Up ; Neck ; Suction* ; Transplants ; Vitiligo

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Rheumatoid arthritis is considered to be a collagen disease which mainly involves articular structures, sometimes has extraarticular manifestations. It is generally accepted now that periarticular osteoporosis develops in early phase of rheumatoid arthritis and generalized osteoporosis in late period. Of several methods of non-invasive measurement of bone mass, single photon absorptiometry was introduced by Cameron and Sorenson(1963) and it has been used for measuring bone mass by many authors with its precision, reproducibility and objective quantification. We tried to observe the quantitative changes of bone mass in rheumatoid arthritis patients with single photon absorptiometry technique. Through the study of bone densitometry in 30 rheumatoid arthritic women compared with age-matched 60 healthy controls, we obtained follow results. 1. Bone mineral density of the rheumatoid arthritis group was lower than that of the control group, but had no significant statistical difference. 2. Bone mineral density of the 40–49-year-old group and 50–59-year-old group was considerablely different in the rheumatoid arthritis group and control group. 3. Bone mineral density of the group whose rheumatoid arthritis history was over 2 year was lower than that of the group below 2 year.
Absorptiometry, Photon ; Arthritis, Rheumatoid ; Bone Density ; Collagen Diseases ; Densitometry ; Female ; Humans ; Osteoporosis

Segmental fracture of the femoral shaft is known as an unusual injury, usually caused by severe force and associated with marked damage to the soft tissue, and is difficult to treat due to these causes it is a controversal topic in regard to the treatment. Authors analysed 14 cases of segmental fracture of the femoral shaft, except cases associated with hip fracture, which had received operative treatment at Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery, College of Medicine, Chosun University, from Jan. 1985 to Dec. 1990. The results are summarized as follows; 1. Of 14 cases, there were 12 cases of male and 2 cases of female: male was predominant. Most cases were at their 3rd and 6th decades of age. 2. Traffic accidents were the main causes of injury(11 out of 14 cases.) 3. There were 13 closed fracture and 1 open fracture. 4. In most cases, they accompanied injuries to other vital organ. Among 14 cases, 5 cases accompanied head injury. 5. We treated these fracture by flexible intramedullary nailing in 7 cases, open reduction and internal fixation with plate in 5 cases, locked intramedullary nailing in 2 cases. Bony union was more rapid in the distal fracture than in the proximal fracture. 6. Among 14 cases, primary bone grafting was done in 2 cases. In the group where primary bone grafting had not been done, dealyed union appeared but nonunion was not seen. 7. We could obtain rapid bony union and decreased operation time in the cases which were treated with intramedullary fixation, and thought that intramedullary fixation was a relatively good method in type of this fracture.
Accidents, Traffic ; Bone Transplantation ; Craniocerebral Trauma ; Female ; Fracture Fixation, Intramedullary ; Fractures, Closed ; Fractures, Open ; Hip ; Humans ; Male ; Methods