Hemangiolymphangioma is a malformation of both lymphatic and blood vessels. While a hemangiolymphangioma is a benign lesion, its propensity to invade underlying tissues and to recur locally distinguishes it from the simple lymphangioma or hemangioma. Hemangiolymphangiomas are uncommon developmental anomalies and intraosseous hemangiolymphangioma of the mandible is a relatively rare condition: when it occurs, the clinical and radiographic presentation are often nonspecific. The author presents a case of hemangiolymphangioma in mandible.
Blood Vessels ; Hemangioma ; Lymphangioma ; Mandible*

This study demonstrates that prophylactic effect of plaster and cataplasm contained ketoprofen in adjuvant arthritis therapy by X-ray. Adjuvant arthritis was induced by a single injection of Freund's complete adjuvant. Mature female Sprague-Dawley rats were designated to 3 groups such as nontreated control, plaster-treated (PT) and cataplasm-treated (CT), each of which was composed of ten animals. The PT and the CT groups showed reduced primary paw swelling, but secondary paw swelling was not affected. Bony changes were observed in all regions of the femur and tibia of the nonadjuvant-injected leg and the adjuvant-injected leg. The mean radiographic scores of the PT and the CT groups were significantly lower than those of the control group from day 0 to 7 of the experimental period (p<0.05, p<0.01). The CT rats showed reduced poly-arthritis development than the PT rats. Our results suggest that radiographic assessment of bony changes is more suitable for measuring changes in long bones such as femur or tibia than in vertebrae. The prophylactic effect of CT prominently suppressed edematous swelling and bony changes in arthritic limb compared with PT.
Animals ; Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal/*pharmacology ; Arthritis, Experimental/*prevention & control ; Calcium Sulfate ; Drug Carriers/administration & dosage ; Excipients/*administration & dosage ; Female ; Freund's Adjuvant ; Ketoprofen/*administration & dosage/analogs & derivatives/therapeutic use ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley

BACKGROUND: It is a recent trend that the birth and mortality rates has been decreased and average life span prolonged in proportion to the socioeconomic and scientific advances. The goal of this study is to suggest basic data for comprehensive and continuous management of elderly patients. METHODS: Based upon ICD-10 (International Classification of Disease), the author analysed the outpatient's diseases 19,367 and inpatient's diseases 6,783 beyond the age of 65 who visited outpatient department and were hospitalized to the Kosin University, Kosin Medical Center in Pusan from January to December in 1997 RESULTS: The ratio of elderly patient in outpatient was 4.5% and inpatient was 15.0%. The number of outpatient each disease group were disease of the circulatory system 5,367 (27.7%), neoplasms 4,007 (20.7%), disease of the digestive system 2,635 (13.6%), endocrine, nutritional and metabolic disease 1,798 (9.8%) in order. Frequent diseases in individual system of outpatient were followed; malignant neoplasms of digestive organs 2,642 (13.6%), hypertensive diseases 2,053 (10.6%), diseases of esophagus, stomach and duodenum 1,804 (9.3%), ischemic heart disease 1,101 (5.7%) in order. The number of inpatient each disease group were disease of the neoplasms 2,138 (31.5%), disease of circulatory system 1,191 (17.6%), disease of the digestive system 730 (10.8%), endocrine, nutritional and metabolic disease 489 (7.2%) in order. Frequent diseases in individual system of inpatient were followed; malignant neoplasms of digestive organs 956 (14.1%), malignant neoplasms of respiratory and intrathoracic organs 351 (5.2%), hypertensive diseases 348 (4.2%), diabetes mellitus 325 (4.1%) in older. CONCLUSION: This result indicate that the elderly patients abounded mostly with disease of circulatory, neoplasm, disease of the digestive system and endocrine, nutritional and metabolic disease.
Aged* ; Busan ; Classification ; Diabetes Mellitus ; Digestive System ; Duodenum ; Esophagus ; Humans ; Inpatients ; International Classification of Diseases ; Metabolic Diseases ; Mortality ; Myocardial Ischemia ; Outpatients ; Parturition ; Stomach

The bony spur formation without degenerative change in the lumbar spines in the young age group is quite interesting and not uncommon. This bony spur is different from the degenerative spur in the old age group in shape and mechanism of formation. The authors analyzed 111 patients with such posterior lumbar bony spur for recent 3 years and 9 months. The authors concluded that posterioly located Schmorl's node is a main cause of the bony spur without degenerative change at lumbar region. The authors advocated 'Juvenile spur' as a new disease entity.
Humans ; Lumbosacral Region ; Spine*

The objective of this study was to determine the clincotherapeutic effect of whole bee venom in hypogalactic sows postpartum. Sows after parturition were assigned to treated and nontreated control groups. In the treated group, 22 sows were bee acupunctured once a day for 3 consecutive days. Honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) for bee acupuncture were about 15 days after metamorphosis. One live bee was used to sting the acupoints known as Yang-ming (ST-18, 1.5 cm lateral to the base of the last 2 pairs of teats) and Jiao-chao (GV-1, at the indentation between the base of tail and the anus). In the control group, 20 sows were intramuscularly injected with a standard dosage of penicillin G (400,000 IU/head) once a day for 3 consecutive days. At post-treatment, 85.0% of the drug-treated control and 90.9% of the bee venomtreated group recovered from hypogalactia syndrome. The advantages of apitherapy were that the patients did not have stress because they were not restrained for a long period. The result suggested that apitherapy using bee venom is an effective treatment for sows with hypogalactia syndrome postpartum.
*Acupuncture Points ; Animals ; Anti-Bacterial Agents/administration & dosage ; Bee Venoms/administration & dosage/*therapeutic use ; Body Temperature ; Escherichia coli/isolation & purification ; Female ; Injections, Intramuscular/veterinary ; Lactation Disorders/drug therapy/therapy/*veterinary ; Mammary Glands, Animal/microbiology ; Penicillin G/administration & dosage ; Staphylococcus/isolation & purification ; Streptococcus/isolation & purification ; Swine ; Swine Diseases/drug therapy/*therapy

Radioactive C(14)-glycine was given to Clonorchis sinensis in Tyrode medium in order to trace the metabolic fate of the labeled carbon. The labeled carbon from glycine enters into every major fraction of Clonorchis sinensis and is highest in the fraction of protein and nucleic acid. Significant amount of C(14)-glycine is incorporated into respiratory carbon dioxide. Relatively high percentage of C(14)-glycine in medium is converted to amino acid fraction and lipid fraction of the worm. In general, glycine is continuously being utilized in the synthesis of proteins and for energy production despite the uptake rate of glycine decreased gradually as incubation proceeds.
parasitology-helminth-trematoda ; Clonorchis sinensis ; metabolism ; biochemistry ; glycine ; amino acid ; nucleic acid ; protein ; lipid ; Tyrode medium

The truncated E1192-283 and E2384-649 genes of hepatitis C virus (HCV) linked to the gene for glutathione 5-transferase (GST) were constructed and their expressions were analyzed. The GST-E1192-283 fusion gene overexpressed the fusion protein in E. coli as a soluble form, while the GST-E1192-383 plasmid did not express expected fusion protein. The purified GST-E1192-283 fusion protein was efficiently cleaved by thrombin. More than 90% pure, HCV E1192-283 protein was obtained by GST-agarose chromatography. The truncated GST-E2384-649 fusion gene expressed the fusion protein mainly as an insoluble form, whereas the GST-E2384-740 did not express the fusion protein. The truncated GST-E1 182-283 and GST-E2384-649 fusion proteins reacted specifically with an HCV patient serum. In addition, mice immunized with either the purified E1192-283 or GST-E2384-649 proteins generated specific antibodies to each antigen. The results suggested that hydrophobic carboxyl portions of the E1 and E2 proteins might affect expression levels as well as the solubility of each fusion protein in bacteria. Also, the truncated E1 protein with Tyr-192 to Ser-283 contained antigenic epitope(s) which could be specifically recognized by an HCV patient serum.
Animals ; Antibodies ; Bacteria ; Chromatography ; Glutathione ; Hepacivirus* ; Hepatitis C* ; Hepatitis* ; Humans ; Mice ; Plasmids ; Solubility ; Thrombin

This survey was done on 79 out-patients in order to investigate the present status of cutaneous candidiasis in clinical and mycological aspects in dermatologic clinic of Korea University Hospital from January, 1982 to July1983. Among the 79 specimens, 56 strains of candida species were identified by KOli mount, Sabourauds dextrose agar culture, sugar assimilation test, sugar fermentation test a.nd corn meal agar with Tween 80 culture. Following results were obtained. 1. The incidence of cutaneous candiasis was l. 6A (79 cases among 4, 963 outpatients). 2. The cutaneous candidiasis was more frequent in fcmale than in male(1: 1. 7) 3. The cutaneous candidiasis had its highest in.cidence during first decade (45 .6%). 4 Candidal intertrigo was the commonest type of the infection (51. 9%,) 5. Thrush, diaper candidiasis and candidal intertrigo were common during first. decade, and candidal paronychia and candidal onychia were common during third decade. 6, Positive rate on KOH mount was 60. 8% Nail (38. 5%) and periungal area (42.9%) should low positive rate. 7. Positive culture rate on Sabourauds dextrose agar of Candida species was 70. 9% (56 cases). 8 Candida species isolated from cutaneous lesions were Candida albicans (52 case) and Candida trapicalis(2 cases). Two species could not be identified.
Agar ; Candida ; Candida albicans ; Candidiasis ; Candidiasis, Cutaneous* ; Candidiasis, Oral ; Fermentation ; Glucose ; Humans ; Incidence ; Intertrigo ; Korea ; Meals ; Outpatients ; Paronychia ; Polysorbates ; Zea mays

The echocardiographic study was performed to 13 cases with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and 105 normal persons between Nov. 1980 and Feb. 1982 in Heart center, Paik Hospital, In-Je Medical College, Busan, Korea. The left ventricular functions in the Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy were compared with those in the normal. The results were followings: 1. There were 10 male and 3 female of 13 cases with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, whose ages were above 20 years old. 2. LVDeD 4.29+/-0.60cm, LVSeD 2.85+/-0.66cm, LVDeV 82.06+/-24.66ml and LVSeV 26.91+/-9.21ml in the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy were significantly changed with those in the normal. 3. E.F. 68.63+/-10.46% and F.S. 34.32+/-6.43% in the Hypertrophic Cardiomopathy were significantly increased with those in the normal. 4. VSTh 1.66+/-0.37cm, LVPWTh 1.04+/-0.29cm in the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy were significantly increased with those in the normal.
Busan ; Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic* ; Echocardiography* ; Female ; Heart ; Humans ; Korea ; Male ; Ventricular Function, Left ; Young Adult

No abstract available.
Child* ; Humans ; Obesity*