No abstract available.
Epidemiologic Studies*

Over twenty per cent of adult knees have a synovial plica which always has possibility of changes into pathologic synovial plica symptomes and signs resembling those of other common internal derangement of the knee joint. Especially the young active patient who has a history of trauma to the knee should once be suspected incarcerated synovial plica not only the possibility of internal derangement. Four cases of symptomatic synovial plica experienced by authors are reported with available references.
Adult ; Humans ; Knee ; Knee Joint ; Patella

Pulmonary hyalinizing granuloma (PHG) is a rare disease that usually presents with multiple bilateral pulmonary nodules and characteristic histological findings, with hyalinized collagen lamellae. Because of the absence of characteristic radiologic and clinical features, PHG is usually diagnosed after surgical resection or biopsy. We performed thoracoscopic wedge resection for a pulmonary nodule located in the right lower lobe that proved to be PHG histopathologically. We report two cases along with a review of the literature.
Biopsy ; Collagen ; Granuloma ; Hyalin ; Rare Diseases

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to identity the effects of a tailored health promotion program on rural residents' self efficacy, health problems and quality of life. METHOD: Data were collected from May 13th, 2006 to July 29th, 2006. The subjects were selected at Gajo-myeon, Geochang-gun, Gyeonsangbuk-do, Korea. Forty three residents were included in the experimental group and 39 in the control group. The 12-week health promotion program was given to the experimental group. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, chi2-test, t-test and ANCOVA test with the SPSS/Win 12.0 program. RESULT: The experimental group showed higher scores of self efficacy and quality of life than the control group, and a lower score of health problem than the control group. CONCLUSION: From the above results, it can be concluded that the tailored health promotion program for rural residents is an effective intervention for improving their self efficacy and quality of life and reducing their health problems. Therefore, it is necessary to spread the tailored health promotion program for residents in other rural areas in Korea.
Gyeongsangbuk-do ; Health Promotion* ; Korea ; Quality of Life* ; Self Efficacy*

During last 20 years from 1959 to 1978, 75 cases of the congenital pyloric stenosis were admitted to department of pediatrics of Yonsei University College of Medicine, and evaluated clinically. The results obtained are asfollows: 1.Vomiting is usually developed during 2 to 4 weeks of life(38 cases, 50%) and the ratio of male to female was 6.5:1. 2. The incidence among siblings were 37 cases in 1st born, 20 cases in 2nds and 9 cases in 3rds. 3. The duration from onset to admission showed a eak incidence between one to two weeks(41 cases among 75 cases) 4. In the symptoms and physical findings; Non-bile stained vomiting was developed in all of the cases, abdominal masses palpated in 67 cases(90%), and visible peristaltic waves were observed in 25 cases(33%). 5. Metabolic alkalosis was developed in 25 cases (33%), serum Na concentration was ranged between 130~150mEq/l in 59 cases and serum K concentration between 3~5mEq/l in 65 cases. 6. 70 cases received surgical treatment. 69 cases were improved, and one case was expired due to aspiration pneumonia. 4 cases were improved with medical treatment including anticholinergics.
Alkalosis ; Cholinergic Antagonists ; Female ; Humans ; Incidence ; Male ; Pediatrics ; Pneumonia, Aspiration ; Pyloric Stenosis ; Pyloric Stenosis, Hypertrophic* ; Siblings ; Vomiting

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Humans ; Pneumoconiosis*

BACKGROUND: There are many rating scales for assessment of geriatrics. But each of these scales were not sufficient to evaluate comprehensive geriatric assessment, physical and psychologic efforts for care. METHODS: We developed new scales to comprehensive geriatric assessment for care of geriatric patients. The Geriatrics Physical Support Scale(GPSS) evaluates physical effort consists of 10 areas and the Geriatrics Global Support Scale(GGSS) evaluates general condition of patients consist of 6 areas. Eighty probable and possible AD patients received the Clinical Dementia Rating Rating Scale(CDR), Korearn version of Mini-Mental State Examination(K-MMSE), Barthel Activity of Daily Living Index(B-ADL) GPSS, GGSS. We tested internal consistency, correlation among dementia rating scales. RESULTS: The GPSS correlated to CDR -0.63(p<0.01), B-ADL -0.90(p<0.01) and the GGSS correlated to CDR -0.60(p<0.01), B-ADL -0.75(p<0.01). The internal consistency were 0.69(GGSS), 0.92(GPSS). CONCLUSION: The Geriatrics Global Support Scale evaluate general condition of patients and the Geriatrics Physical Support Scale evaluate physical efforts needed for care of geriatric patients. These scales an also brief and easy rating scales to grade degree of caregiver`s burden.
Dementia ; Geriatric Assessment ; Geriatrics* ; Humans ; Physical Exertion ; Reproducibility of Results* ; Weights and Measures

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Apoptosis* ; Cell Line* ; Colon* ; Colonic Neoplasms* ; Etoposide*

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Citrobacter freundii* ; Citrobacter* ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn* ; Meningitis*

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to identify the health promotion behavior, health problem, perceived health status and farmers' syndrome of rural residents. METHODS: The subjects of this study were 637 adults of 19 primary health care post extracted from 1.875 primary health care post in Korea by quota sampling method. The collected data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation. RESULTS: The average score of health promotion behavior was 2.23. In the sub-scales, the highest degree of performance was 'nutrition', followed by 'spiritual growth' and the lowest degree of performance was 'physical activity'. The most prevalent health problem was ailments in 'musculoskeletal system', followed by 'fatigue', 'eyes and ears', 'cardiovascular system'. The mean score of perceived health status was 8.54. The prevalence of farmers' syndrome was 98.4%. Health promotion behavior showed a significant positive correlation health status and perceived health status showed a significant negative farmers' syndrome. CONCLUSIONS: With the above findings, rural residents' physical activity is less than urban residents', and the rural resident's score of perceived health status, musculoskeletal system and fatigue are lower than urban residents'. The farmers' syndrome of the rural people is high. A tailored health promotion program for rural community is needed to develop in the consideration of these findings.
Adult ; Fatigue ; Health Behavior ; Health Promotion ; Humans ; Korea ; Motor Activity ; Musculoskeletal System ; Prevalence ; Primary Health Care ; Rural Population