No abstract available.
Apoptosis* ; Prostate* ; Prostatic Hyperplasia* ; Prostatic Neoplasms* ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc*

BACKGROUND/AIMS: The endoscopic mucosal resection has now been adopted for a useful modality in both curative therapy and accurate diagnosis of early gastric cancer. A retrospective study was done to evaluate the indication and the limitation of endoscopic mucosal resection of early gastric cancer. METHODS: We studied 20 cases of early gastric cancer treated by endoscopic mucosal resection in Chungnam National University Hospital from November, 1995 to July, 1997. RESULTS: 1) The size affected the curability: 83. 3% of lesions less than 2 cm and 50. 0% of those larger than 2 cm were resected completely. 2) The depth of cancer invasion affected the curability: 87. 5% of lesion confined to mucosa were resected completely, while all of submucosal cancers were resected incompletely. 3) Among fourteen cases resected completely, three cases of lesions larger than 2 cm were residual cancer and two of those less than 2 cm were recurred locally. CONCLUSIONS: To be a curative therapy by endoscopic mucosal resection of early gastric cancer, we think that careful selection of the lesion, that is lesion less than 2cm and confined to mucosa, is necessary
Chungcheongnam-do ; Diagnosis ; Mucous Membrane ; Neoplasm, Residual ; Retrospective Studies ; Stomach Neoplasms*

Amipaque is a water soluble, non-ionic myelographic contrast media, and owing to its high diagnostic accuracy and safety, its use is gradually increasing. The authors studied the complications after Amipaque lumbermyelography in 61 patients with low back pain during the period from Jan. 1981 to Nov. 1981 in Chung Ang University Hospital. The results were as follows; 1. Total complication rate was 52%(32 of 61) and there was nosexual difference in its occurrence. 2. In total, no difference in complication rate was found between head-up positioned group with a degree of 30degrees (group I) after procedure and head-up positioned group with a degree of 70degrees (group II) but female patients had more complication rate in group I than in group II (75% vs 50%).Headache was more common in group I and nausea was more common in group II. 3. Headache was most common complicaiton (44%) and there was no sexual difference in its occurrence. 4. No significant difference in complication rate was found between patients proved to have HBP and patients to have not. 5. Complications were less common in patients with punctured level of L4-5 than in patients with L2-3 or L3-4 level puncture.
Contrast Media ; Female ; Headache ; Humans ; Low Back Pain ; Metrizamide ; Myelography ; Nausea ; Punctures ; Water

BACKGROUND: Thin hairs are critical to achieve natural result in female hairline correction surgery. However, there are few studies on the usefulness of hair thinning by intense pulsed light (IPL) after hairline correction surgery in East Asian females. METHODS: Hair thinning using IPL was performed in 54 women who had complained about thick hairs along the frontal hairline after hairline correction surgery. Patient mean age was 31.2 years old and patients were an average of 2.1 years post-hairline correction surgery. Initial treatment used 10 J, while second and third sessions were conducted with 10 to 15 J according to responsiveness to treatment. RESULTS: Mean thickness of individual hairs assessed before the procedure was 78.86 µm. The mean number of procedures was 1.6 per patient. Forty of 54 subjects (74%) achieved satisfactory hair thinning with only one procedure from 78.01 to 66.14 µm after treatment. The measured thickness was 66.43 µm at the end of the first year in patients who were satisfied after one procedure. Thirteen cases achieved satisfactory hair thinning after two sessions. Mean thickness was 74.44 µm and 67.51 µm, before and after the second session. One case required a third session with 15J, thinning from 89.00 to 66.50 µm. CONCLUSIONS: Hair thinning by IPL is a very useful method to provide a natural look after hairline correction surgery in East Asians, who have naturally thick hair.
Asian Continental Ancestry Group* ; Female ; Hair ; Hair Follicle ; Hair Removal* ; Humans ; Laser Therapy ; Methods

PURPOSE: To report a case of monocular elevation deficiency as the presenting manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). CASE SUMMARY: A 23-year-old, otherwise healthy female presented with a 3-day history of vertical diplopia and headache. She had a left hypotropia, which worsened in adduction and supra-duction and a profound inferior oblique underaction (-3). Magnetic resonance imaging showed an enhancement around the left superior oblique muscle and multiple infarctions in the left midbrain. On repetitive serological tests, anemia, lymphopenia, and anti-phospholipid antibody were positive. A presumptive diagnosis was a myositis of left superior oblique muscle and hyper-coagulation related with anti-phospholipid antibody. Two months after high-dose steroid treatment, the vertical diplopia was resolved. Five months later, the left hypotropia recurred as a more severe form with the inability to elevate the left eye in all directions. In addition, the infarction associated with vasculitis recurred in the left midbrain. As the treatment with high-dose steroid failed to relieve her ocular symptoms, recession of the left inferior rectus was performed 8 months later. One month after the surgery, she developed multiple lesions of erythematous nodosa with tenderness. Skin biopsy of the lesion in the fingers showed the histological findings consistent with lupus. CONCLUSIONS: Eye movement abnormality can be an initial manifestation of SLE, which should be considered as a differential diagnosis especially in young female patients.
Anemia ; Biopsy ; Diagnosis ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Diplopia ; Eye Movements ; Female ; Fingers ; Headache ; Humans ; Infarction ; Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic* ; Lymphopenia ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Mesencephalon ; Myositis ; Serologic Tests ; Skin ; Vasculitis ; Young Adult

Renal hemangioma is a rare benign tumor which usually causes unexplained painless gross hematuria with clotsin the renal pelvis or ureter. It isgenerally venous origin but may be arterial or mixed venoarterial; it may becapillary but is generally cavernous type which has predilection of submucosal, papillary,and medullary locations.It is very important ot include renal hemangioma in the diffrential diagnosis in cases of unexplained grosshematuria with clots in order to save the renal parenchyme. And preoperative selective renal angiography can offerhelpful diagnostic informations and may be helpful to decide surgical procedure. A case of surgically proven renalhemangioma is reported with a brief review of the literatures.
Angiography ; Diagnosis ; Hemangioma ; Hemangioma, Cavernous ; Hematuria ; Kidney Pelvis ; Kidney ; Ureter

No abstract available.
Carcinoma, Basal Cell ; Facial Dermatoses* ; Keratosis, Actinic ; Skin*

We report a case of primary cutaneous mucinous adenocarcinotna in a 64-year-old female. The tumor was about 2cm in size, forminga round dome-shaped alopecic scalp mass which had gradually increased in size over about 5 years, Histalogic examination revealed that the tumor was divided into numerous compartments by strands of fibrous tissue. In each compartment, abundant amounts of pale-staining mucin surrounded nests or cords of moderately anaplastic epithelial cells. We couldn't find any evidence of internal neoplasms as a source of metastasis. We resected the tumor with approximately a 1 cm margin and then performed a split thickness skin graft.
Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous* ; Betazole ; Epithelial Cells ; Female ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; Mucins* ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Scalp ; Skin ; Transplants

The present study was undertaken to investigate the effect of acute administration of ethanol on production of cytokines such as IL-1j3, IL-2, IL-6, IL-10 and TNF-a, induction of penicillin V-induced active fatal anaphylaxis, and resistence to Salmonel/a typhimurium infection in mice. Ethanol administration into mice was performed by intraperitoneal injection of 0.5 ml of 20 % ethanol for 3 consecutive days before induction of cytokines with lipopolysaccharide (LPS), Con A or Salmone/la injection. Serum levels of cytokines were measured by ELISA. It was found that ethanol administration significantly inhibited both the serum levels of all cytokines examined and the resistance of mice to S. typhimurium. However, ethanol administration failed to prevent penicillin-induced fatal anaphylaxis. Taken together, the present results may need new insights in the diagnosis and treatment of various immunologically-mediated diseases.
Anaphylaxis* ; Animals ; Cytokines* ; Diagnosis ; Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay ; Ethanol ; Injections, Intraperitoneal ; Interleukin-10 ; Interleukin-2 ; Interleukin-6 ; Interleukins ; Mice* ; Penicillin V* ; Penicillins* ; Salmonella Infections* ; Salmonella*

No abstract available.
Paraffin* ; Silicones*