The clinical review was done on 17 cases with the foreign body in the upper gastrointestinal tract who underwent endoscopic removal of foreign body at Kang Nam Sacred Heart Hospital from Dec. 1981 to Dec. 1991. The results were as follows: 1) The age distribution varies from 3 months to 72 years of age, being most prevalent under 5 years of age. 2) The incidence of foreign body in the order of frequency was coin, fish bone, safety pinring, peanut, keyring, food bolus, artificial teeth and medal. Among 17 cases, 9 cases(53.0%) were lodged in the esophagus and 8 cases(47.0%) were lodged in the stomach. 3) Dysphagia or globus was the common symptom in 8 cases(47.2%), followed by absence of symptom in 7 cases(41.2%), upper abdominal discomfort in 1 case(5.8%) and vomiting in 1 case (5.8%). 4) l0 cases(58.8%) of foreign body were removed within 72 hours and 7 cases(41.2%) of foreign body were removed after 72 hours.
Age Distribution ; Deglutition Disorders ; Esophagus ; Foreign Bodies* ; Heart ; Incidence ; Numismatics ; Stomach ; Tooth, Artificial ; Upper Gastrointestinal Tract* ; Vomiting

Congenital pulmonary lymphangiectasis is a rare cause of severe respiratory distress in the newborn period and most of these patient die, usually within the first 24 hours of life. The light microscopic characteristics of the lungs are a network of partly tubular, partly cystically enlarged lymph vessels within large areas of connective tissue and they have thin wall lined by endothelium. Also congenital pulmonary lymphangiectasis is closely associated with cardiovascular malformation, and most frequently occurs in the clinical setting of congenital heart disease with or without pulmonary venous obstruction(total anomalous venous return, atresia of large pulmonary veins) The authors describe three typical cases of congenital pulmonary lymphangiectasis.
Connective Tissue ; Endothelium ; Heart Defects, Congenital ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; Lung ; Lymphangiectasis* ; Lymphangioleiomyomatosis

No abstract available.
Emergencies* ; Emergency Service, Hospital* ; Violence*

The tricuspid valve is not a simple but a complex structure, tricuspid valve complex. This complex is composed of tricuspid orifice, annulus, valve leaflet, chordae tendineae and papillary muscles. There are flew articles about these structures. The authors studied tricuspid valve complex in 53 cases of normal korean adults, such as circumference of tricuspid annulus, the maximum diameter of the tricuspid orifice, height and breadth of the cusps, including commissures, the ratio of rough to clear zone, the number of scallops of posterior cusp, the number, length and pattern of arrangement of the several types of chordae, the number and morphological characteristics of papillary muscles.
Adult* ; Chordae Tendineae ; Heart* ; Humans ; Papillary Muscles ; Pectinidae ; Tricuspid Valve*

The study presents the application of STR polymorphisms to male identification in the cases of a serial rapist in Korea. Since October 2000 a rapist from Cheongju city (a town located in central district) committed at least 36 rapes. DNA profiles obtained from semen stains, buccal cells and tongue tissue left at the scenes of crime and vaginal swabs of victims gave information that one and the same man had committed all the rapes. The Y-chromosome haplotype (12 loci) obtained was used for the identification process of rapist in mixed genotypes including victim's alleles. The crime scene data were referred from investigating police authorities described the relationship of victim to the offender, victim's age, time and place of sexual assault and rape locations. The behavioural analysis of crime scenes showed more similarities than differences for related crimes. These components were usually assessed in terms of proximity in time and space. Certain crime scene aspects of a serial rapist help identify components of offender spatial behaviour. As a result of this work, future research on the geography of rape and behavioural aspects of rapist will be directed towards those aspects of offences, which have been identified as relevant to the distance between an offender's base, and the site where he approached his victim.
Alleles ; Chungcheongbuk-do ; Coloring Agents ; Crime* ; Criminals ; DNA ; Genotype ; Geography ; Haplotypes ; Humans ; Korea ; Male* ; Police ; Rape ; Semen ; Tongue

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy (ARVD/C) is characterized histologically by massive infilteration of right ventricular wall by fat tissue with surviving strands of cardiomyocytes bordered by or embedded in fibrosis. ARVC has been recognized as a cause of sudden death, especially in the young. We report an autopy case of ARVD/C in a 35-year-old female. She was found dead in her house under apparently natural circumstances. The autopsy revealed a dilated 340-gram heart with a fibrofatty replacement of the right ventricular myocardium. On the review of her past medical history, she had taken medical examination for prolonged general weakness about 1 year prior to death. At that time the echocardiogram revealed dilatation of right ventricular cavity size and moderately decreased left ventricular systolic function, the electrocardiogram revealed R>S at V1 lead and T-wave inversion at V1-V3 leads. To the best of our knowledge, this is the second autopsy case of ARVD/C, reported in the literature of Korea.
Adult ; Autopsy* ; Death, Sudden ; Dilatation ; Electrocardiography ; Female ; Fibrosis ; Heart ; Humans ; Korea ; Myocardium ; Myocytes, Cardiac

Huntington's disease (HD), an autosomal dominant dominant disorder of mid-life onset, is characterized by progressive involuntary choreiform movement, psychological change and dementia. We present here one case of Huntington's disease, who was admitted at Seoul National University Hospital from 2nd Oct. to 16 Oct. 1985.
Chorea ; Dementia ; Huntington Disease ; Seoul

No abstract available.
Carcinoma, Adenosquamous* ; Lung*

Authors reviewed about scoliosis the chest films of 325 congenitalheart diseasepatients who visited Seoul National University Hospital during the period of Jan. 1986 to Dec. 1987 to find out the incidence of scoliosis in congenital heart disease patients and to define the nature of scoliosis associated with congenital heart disease and came to following conclusions. 1. When curvatures of 10 degrees or more on chest P-A was classified as scoliosis, the incidence of scoliosis was 14.4%. It was more than 6 times the prevalence of scoliosis of 2. 3% in general population in Korea. 2. There was no difference in the incidence of scoliosis between the cyanotic and acyanotic heart diseases (P < 0.05). 3. There was no difference in the incidence of scoliosis between individual heart diseases (P < 0.05). 4. The scoliosis associated with congenital heart diseases showed a relative male preponderance. The male to female ratio of scoliosis was 1: 2.1 in patients with congenital heart disease while male to female ratio of idiopathic scoliosis in in general populationwas 1: 8.7 in Korea. 5. The curve pattern of scoliosis associated with congenital heart disease was predominantly right sided, comprising 74.5%. There was no difference of curve pattern between the scoliosis associated with congenital heart disease and the scoliosis in the general population. 6. The curve pattern of scoliosis was influenced neither by the side of the aortic arch nor the thoracotomy incision.
Aorta, Thoracic ; Female ; Heart Defects, Congenital ; Heart Diseases ; Humans ; Incidence ; Korea ; Male ; Prevalence ; Scoliosis ; Seoul ; Thoracotomy ; Thorax

The scaphoid is the most commonly fractured carpal bone and the nonunion of the scaphoid has continued to represent a challenge to the surgeon who treats hand injuries. The are many treatment modalities and the technique of bone grafting described by Otto Russe in 1960, which is quite appropriately called the Matti-Russe procedure, has become a well-accepted method of treating nonunion of the scaphoid. And the results of this method has been presented by several authors. At the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, From May 1985 to September 1988, ten cases of the scaphoid nonunion had been treated by Matti-Russe procedure and followed up more than 1 year. Fracture healing was observed in all ten cases. Seven patients were totally free of pain both at rest and at excercise and three patients noted moderate pain at excercise. All patient were satisfied with the results of operation and none felt worse.
Bone Transplantation ; Carpal Bones ; Fracture Healing ; Hand Injuries ; Humans ; Methods ; Orthopedics ; Seoul