Decubitus means 'a lying down', so pressure sore is a more correct term because tissue necrosis and ulcers are caused by excessive and continuous pressure. Pressure sores are easily developed in patients with chronic illness such as unconsciousness, spinal cord injury, anemia, diabetes, or malaise. So these patients need special attention, and the prevention is most important. Nowadays infected pressure sores are very difficult to control due to highly resistant bacterias such as MRSA (methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus). Early-stage pressure sores can be healed with local conservative treatments or skin grafts, but advanced and deep pressure sores need flap surgery with good blood supply and enough tissue padding over bony prominence. In postoperative state. the recurrence of pressure sores is very common occurring in about half of patients, so nursing care should be focused to relieve pressure. We have to recover patients with pressure sore as early possible as in order to relieve the patients physically and psychologically.
Anemia ; Bacteria ; Chronic Disease ; Deception ; Humans ; Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus ; Myocutaneous Flap ; Necrosis ; Nursing Care ; Pressure Ulcer* ; Recurrence ; Skin ; Spinal Cord Injuries ; Staphylococcus ; Transplants ; Ulcer ; Unconsciousness

There is no method of single surgical treatment for facial paralysis, because of its variable condition and variable patient's demand. We usually have been performed the free vascularized gracilis muscle transfer to achieve facial reanimation in cases of the complete facial paralysis. However. most of the patients who visit outpatient room are incomplete facial paralysis. In these cases, we performed the several auxiliary operations for the correction of a drooping eyebrow, paralyzed eyelids, paralysis of the lower lip, and for similar paralytic deformities. To correct a drooping eyebrow, we performed simple eyebrow lifting and upper blepharoplasty. Gold plate implantations and Kuhnt-Szymanowski's method were performed for the lagophthalmos and ectropions individually. To correct a paralyzed lower lip, tensor fascia lata graft was performed with the face lifting. The authors also discuss their operative methods and results of various surgical methods for treating facial paralysis.
Blepharoplasty ; Congenital Abnormalities ; Ectropion ; Eyebrows ; Eyelids ; Facial Paralysis* ; Fascia Lata ; Humans ; Lifting ; Lip ; Outpatients ; Paralysis ; Rhytidoplasty ; Transplants

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Child* ; Humans ; Mycoplasma pneumoniae ; Mycoplasma* ; Pneumonia, Mycoplasma*

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Animals ; Capsaicin* ; Colon* ; Cytokines* ; Lung* ; Melanoma, Experimental* ; Mice* ; RNA, Messenger*

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Bleomycin* ; Lymphangioma, Cystic*

Abdominal pain usually originates from the abdomen, but the lack of evidence of any abdominal disease suggests the pain originate from the thorax or have metabolic and neurogenic causes. Especially, neurogenic abdominal pain is recurrent and sustained causalgic pain, regardless of diet and without abdominal distension or rigidity, may be accompanied by signs of neurologic dysfunction. We have experienced a very rare case of abdominal pain arising from the intramedullary cavernous hemangioma of spinal cord. We report this case with a review of the literature.
Abdomen ; Abdominal Pain* ; Diet ; Hemangioma, Cavernous ; Neurologic Manifestations ; Spinal Cord ; Thorax

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Bone Development*

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Bone Development*

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Fracture Healing* ; Hematoma*