This study was made in order to investigate the present status of superficial dermatophytoses and some changes on the frequency of the diseases, sex distributions and varieties of the causative organisms. The survey was made by 1486 out-patients of dermatology clinic of National Medical Center from May to August in 1978. Following results are obtained: 1. The incidence of superficial fungal infections including Tinea versicolor is 22. 2% and Tinea versicolor alone is 2. 8% among total l486 out-patients. 2. The ratio of male to female patients is 190:140 and shows more prevalence in male. 3. The age group from 20 to 29 shows the highest incidence and 38. 3% of all patients with superficial fungal infection falls in this age group. 4. Tinea pedis reveals the commonest disease and others in decreasing frequency are Tinea corporis, Onychomycosis, Tinea manus, Tinea corporis, Candidiasis and Tinea capitis. 5. Coexisting fungal infection is found in 60 patients and is most prevalent in the age group from 40 to 49, related to the ratio of age specific coexisting cases to each age group patients. 6. Tinea pedis with Onychomycosis reveals the most prevalent coexisting superficial fungal infection and others in decreasing frequencies are Tinea pedis with Tinea manus, Tinea pedis with Tinea cruris, Tinea cruris witb Tinea corporis and so on. 7. Positive rate of KOH mount among 362 scrapings is 64. 7% and Tinea cruris shows the highest positive rate (86. O%.) and Tinea corporis the next (78. 6%). 8. 187 strains are isolated by Sabourauds dextrose agar, 140 from positive KOH scrapings and 47 from negative KOH scrapings. a. Trichophyton rubrum is the most common organism of superficial dermatophytosis (43 8%) b, Microsporum species reveal the most common organism of Tinea capitis (80%).
Agar ; Candidiasis ; Dermatology ; Female ; Glucose ; Humans ; Incidence ; Male ; Microsporum ; Onychomycosis ; Outpatients ; Prevalence ; Sex Distribution ; Tinea Capitis ; Tinea Pedis ; Tinea Versicolor ; Tinea* ; Trichophyton

No abstract available.
Neoplasm Metastasis ; Small Cell Lung Carcinoma ; Thyroid Gland

Authors report herein a case of a 27-year-old male patient who had been suffering from chronic ulcerative dermatitis with scar-like changes and successive involvement of the ankles, limb folds, nape and abdomen, and no tendency to heal from age 4. At the age 14, an immunologic study showed a selective IgA deficiency with partial T-lymphocyte inactivation. Ten years later, at age 24, he showed a severe form of morphea over a generalized area and disabling joint contractures, and was diagnosed as disabling pansclerotic morphea with an IgA value that returned to a near normal level. At the age 27, an adult-fist, 7×6×4cm sized, squamous cell carcinoma with an easy bleeding tendency like an overgrowing granulation tissue vascular tumor had developed on the chronic ulcerative lesion on the posterior aspect of the right ankle for 2 months. Aggressive metastatic lesion occurred on the right popliteal area 3 months later. He died 1 month thereafter.
Abdomen ; Adult ; Ankle ; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell* ; Contracture ; Dermatitis ; Epithelial Cells* ; Extremities ; Granulation Tissue ; Hemorrhage ; Humans ; IgA Deficiency ; Immunoglobulin A ; Joints ; Male ; Scleroderma, Localized* ; T-Lymphocytes ; Ulcer*

Desmoplastic trichiepithelioma is a solitary tumor of the hair follicle with female preponderance, most commonly located on the face. Clinically the lesions appear annular and firm with a raised border and a depressed nonulcerated center, but the appearance is not so distinctive to hair follicle tumors that definite dignosis is established by the histopathologic findings. We report herein a case a case of desmoplastic trichoepithelioma in a 21-yeaar-old woman who had an asymptomatic hard, annular lesion, 0.4cm sized in diameter with a raised border and a depressed center on the right cheek. Histopathologic findings showed narrow strands of basaloid cells, horny cysts and desmoplastic stnoma, the features corresponding to the desmoplastic trichoepithelioma.
Cheek ; Female ; Hair Follicle ; Humans

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Orbit*

No abstract available.
Femur* ; Fracture Fixation, Intramedullary* ; Tibia*

PURPOSE: To investigate the therapeutic effectiveness of ultrasound (US)-guided trigger point injection for myofascial trigger points (MTrPs) in the internal rotator muscles of the shoulder in post-mastectomy patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This pilot study was a non-controlled, prospective, clinical trial. Nineteen post-mastectomy patients with a diagnosis of at least one active MTrP in the subscapularis and/or pectoralis muscles were included. We performed trigger point injections into the subscapularis muscle deep behind the scapula as well as the pectoralis muscle for diagnostic and therapeutic purpose by the newly developed US-guided method. RESULTS: Visual analogue scale and range of motion of the shoulder for external rotation and of abduction showed significant improvement immediately after the first injection and 3 months after the last injection compared with baseline (p<0.05 for both). Duration from onset to surgery and duration of myofascial pain syndrome in the good responder group were significantly shorter than in the bad responder group (p<0.05). Patients did not report any complications related to the procedure or serious adverse events attributable to the treatment. CONCLUSION: In post-mastectomy patients with shoulder pain, US-guided trigger point injections of the subscapularis and/or pectoralis muscles are effective for both diagnosis and treatment when the cause of shoulder pain is suspected to originate from active MTrPs in these muscles, particularly, the subscapularis.
Adult ; Aged ; Anesthetics, Local/administration & dosage/therapeutic use ; Female ; Humans ; Injections, Intramuscular/methods ; Lidocaine/administration & dosage/therapeutic use ; Mastectomy ; Middle Aged ; Muscle, Skeletal/drug effects/ultrasonography ; Myofascial Pain Syndromes/drug therapy ; Pectoralis Muscles/drug effects/*ultrasonography ; Trigger Points/*ultrasonography

Prednisolone, a cortisol analogue, was given intraperitoneally to rats with 5, 10 or 15 doses of 5 mg. per kg. of body weight per day. Sacrificing the animals 24 hours after the last injection, unfixed frozen sections from small pieces of liver tissue were incubated and stained by a modification from the method of Wachstein and Meisel(1965) for glucose-6-phosphatase (G-6-Pase) activity. Some of the tissue blocks were processed for staining with hematoxylin and eosin for histopathological observation. Glucose-6-phosphatase activity, being represented histochemically by brownish-black deposits, was progressively increased after administrations 5 or 10 times. With 15 doses of prednisolone the general histochemical picture of G-6-Pase activity appeared to be similar to that of the control group, except for a different distribution of hepatocytes possessing strong activity. In prednisolone treated rats, the swollen hepatocytes showed a marked, cytoplasmic vacuolization and nuclear pyknosis, particularly in the periportal and midzonal areas of hepatic lobules. Some discussion of the G-6-Pase corticosteroids are presented in terms of their metabolic effects.
Animal ; Glucose-6-Phosphatase/analysis* ; Liver/drug effects ; Liver/enzymology* ; Male ; Prednisolone/pharmacology* ; Rats

The patients of developmental dislocation of the hip(DDH) are almost found after walking age because of early diagnosis of DDH in younger children is not easy. A controversy still exists as to the relative value of closed and operative management in the treatment of a child who has reached walking age. This study is a report of the results of 16 patients(17 cases) in developmental dislocation of the hip who have visited our hospital at the age of 9 months to 3 years old, and have been followed more than 12 months (12-112 months) on review of plain radiographs and arthrograms. The results were as follows 1. The age at diagnosis was 16.4 months(9-31 months) in average. The methods of treatment were conservative for 8 cases, and operation for 4 cases and secondary operation for 5 cases who were failed with conservative therapy. 2. By Severin's radiologic grade, the result was good in 4 cases, fair in 3 cases and poor in 1 case in conservative treatment. In operative treatment, fair was in 2 cases and poor in 2 cases. In secondary operative -patients who were failed with conservative therapy, good was in 2 cases, fair in 2 cases and poor in 1 case. 3. Avascular necrosis of femoral head was developed in 3 cases. 4. In the good reduction as determined by arthrogram according to Race and Herring, we can get a favorable result in conservative treatment, and in the poor reduction as determined by arthrogram, the better
Child ; Continental Population Groups ; Diagnosis ; Dislocations* ; Early Diagnosis ; Head ; Hip* ; Humans ; Necrosis ; Walking*

PURPOSE: Hyperhomocysteinemia is accepted as an independent risk factor for peripheral arterial disease (PAD). The purpose of this study is to evaluate the correlation between the preoperative plasma homocysteine concentration and restenosis after therapeutic revascularization. METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed the clinical records of 58 consecutive patients (they were confined to Trans Atlantic Inter-Society Consensus [TASC] type C & D) among 103 patients who were diagnosed as having infrainguinal PAD and who were treated with bypass surgery or endovascular surgery from July 2003 to July 2009. We analyzed the effect of several factors such as gender, age, the plasma lipid profile and the protein C, protein S, fibrinogen, C-reactive protein, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, ankle-brachial index (ABI), and homocysteine levels, which are all considered to be risk factors for restenosis. Multivariate and univariate analyses were performed to assess the effect of possible confounders. RESULTS: The subjects were 50 men and 8 women (mean age: 63.8+/-10.9). There were 33 (56.9%) cases of bypass surgery and 25 (43.1%) cases of endovascular surgery. Of them, 19 cases (32.8%) showed restenosis after revascularization. In the patients with restenosis, 18 cases (94.7%) showed a preoperative high plasma homocysteine level and 1 case (5.2%) showed a normal level. A lower ABI and hyperhomocysteinemia were significantly more common in the patients with restenosis (P=0.025, P<0.001). There were no significant differences of the other factors, except for the plasma homocysteine level on multivariate analysis (P=0.001). CONCLUSION: We can regard the preoperative hyperhomocysteinemia level as a predictive marker of restenosis after revascularization. Special attention may need to be given to the patients who have a lower preoperative ABI and hyperhomocysteinemia after revascularization.
Ankle Brachial Index ; C-Reactive Protein ; Consensus ; Diabetes Mellitus ; Female ; Fibrinogen ; Homocysteine ; Humans ; Hyperhomocysteinemia ; Hypertension ; Male ; Multivariate Analysis ; Peripheral Arterial Disease ; Plasma ; Protein C ; Protein S ; Retrospective Studies ; Risk Factors