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Endometriosis ; Female ; Leuprolide* ; Pityriasis Rosea*

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Acrospiroma* ; Lip

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Neurofibroma*

OBJECTIVE: The patients of endometriosis may complain of dysmenorrhea, pelvic pain, and dyspareunia, but may be asymptomatic. We studied on the correlation between the pain and the psychologic stress, Also, we studied on the correlation between serum CA-l25 levels and the psychologic stress. METHODS: The data was obtained from il7 endometriosis patients. Psychological stress was studied with STAI(Stait-Trait Anxiety Inventory) and BDI(Beck Depression Inventory). We compared the degree of anxiety and depression according to existence of pain and the duration of pain. Also we examed the scores of STAI and BDI according to the level of serum CA-125. RESULTS: The pain group had more depression and anxiety, in comparison to the pain-free group. And the depression and anxiety significantly increased in long-term pain group. There was no correlation between the level of serum CA-125 and the depression,or axiety. CONCLUSION: The pain of endometriosis may play a role of pychological stress to the patients, so it seems to increase depression and anxiety.
Anxiety ; Depression ; Dysmenorrhea ; Dyspareunia ; Endometriosis* ; Female ; Humans ; Interleukin-7 ; Pelvic Pain ; Stress, Psychological*

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BACKGROUND: Lip skin diseases are common findings in dermatology. However, most dermatologists are not familiar with the clinical features of lip skin diseases due to the special characteristics of the lip. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate the clinical and histopathological features of lip skin diseases. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed 259 patients who underwent biopsy for labial diseases at the Department of Dermatology from January 2002 to December 2011. We compared the clinical and histopathological diagnoses and analyzed the rate of concurrence and labial tumor distribution. In addition, demographic and clinical features, including age, sex, location, and disease duration, were investigated. RESULTS: The mean age of the patients was 56.8 years and the male-to-female ratio was 1:0.77. Lip skin diseases accounted for 4.1% of all new patients during the study period, with the lower lip being the most commonly affected site (88.4%). The most common disease was actinic cheilitis (35.1%), followed by chronic cheilitis (11.6%), mucocele (10.0%), and squamous cell carcinoma (9.7%). The most common type of tumor was actinic cheilitis (54.8%), followed by mucocele (15.7%), squamous cell carcinoma (15.1%), hemangioma (4.2%), pyogenic granuloma (4.2%), keratoacanthoma (1.8%), and basal cell carcinoma (1.2%). Before the patients came to the university hospital, they received medical treatment at various clinics and departments, including dermatology clinics (55.3%), internal medicine (26.2%) and urology departments (10.7%), and general practitioners (9.7%). CONCLUSION: This study provides novel and useful data on the incidence and characteristics of lip skin diseases. Compared to previous studies, the frequency of lip tumors was relatively high and variable in this study. Based on these results, we advise physicians to, if in doubt, initially diagnose and treat for actinic cheilitis and labial tumors (especially squamous cell carcinoma) caused by long term exposure to the sun.
Actins ; Biopsy ; Carcinoma, Basal Cell ; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell ; Cheilitis ; Dermatology ; Diagnosis ; General Practitioners ; Granuloma, Pyogenic ; Hemangioma ; Humans ; Incidence ; Internal Medicine ; Keratoacanthoma ; Lip* ; Mucocele ; Retrospective Studies ; Skin Diseases* ; Solar System ; Urology

BACKGROUND: A medulloblastoma is a primitive neuroepithelial tumor of the cerebellum that occurs in children and metastasizes through the cerebrospinal fluid. It is highly malignant and invasive, and the 5-year survival rate is only 60%. Surgical resection techniques, radiation, and chemotherapy have improved the overall survival but the patients suffer life-long cognitive dysfunctions or endocrine abnormalities as the side effects of treatment. Therefore it is essential to identify prognostic markers to determine the appropriate treatment strategy in order to minimize the side effects. METHODS: This study evaluated the immunohistochemical differentiation and survival rate with synaptophysin, glial fibrillary acidic protein, epithelial membrane antigen, vimentin and primitive neuroepithelial marker nestin of 55 paraffin-embedded medulloblastomas, using a tissue microarray. The expression of survivin, the apoptotic inhibitor, and the survival rate with regard to the proliferation index of Ki-67 were also investigated. RESULTS: The group testing positive to vimentin, a mesenchymal differentiation marker, had a worse prognosis and there was a strong correlation between vimentin expression and nestin expression. Patients with a survivin expression rate >35% had a significantly poorer clinical course and there was a correlation between the survivin expression rate and Ki-67 expression rate. CONCLUSION: In conclusion, vimentin and survivin are negative prognostic markers in medulloblastomas.
Cerebellum ; Cerebrospinal Fluid ; Child ; Drug Therapy ; Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein ; Humans ; Medulloblastoma* ; Mucin-1 ; Nestin ; Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive ; Prognosis ; Survival Rate ; Synaptophysin ; Vimentin*

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Humans ; Mycosis Fungoides* ; Spondylitis, Ankylosing* ; Infliximab

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Foot* ; Neuroma*