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Appendectomy* ; Lymphocyte Subsets* ; Lymphocytes*

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Kidney Calculi*

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Animals ; Endometriosis* ; Female ; Horns* ; Kidney*

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Animals ; Endometriosis* ; Female ; Horns* ; Kidney*

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Posterior Cruciate Ligament*

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Humans* ; Knee* ; Synovial Fluid*

Nine patients with ipsilateral tibial shaft fractures and knee ligament injuries were retrospectively reviewed to determine the methods of the diagnosis and the results of the treatment. The incidence of this combined injuries was 5% in one hundred and eighty two tibial shaft fractures. The injuries of posterior cruciate ligament were combined most freqently. Five of nine patients were open fractures. Bone union was obtained in all cases and the mean duration of bone union was 22.5 weeks. Athroscopy and stress X-ray for the cruciate ligament were helpful to diagnose this combined injures. The ligament injuries were surgically managed in eight and conservatively in one. Better results were obtained when this combined injuries were operated early, but four of nine patients were disabled. The results suggest that the examination of the knee is necessary to document ligamentous injuries that occur with tibial shaft fractures.
Diagnosis ; Fractures, Open ; Humans ; Incidence ; Knee ; Ligaments ; Posterior Cruciate Ligament ; Retrospective Studies

Duplications of the alimentary tract are uncommon congenital anomalies that usually present in childhood. They are cystic or tubular in shape, and composed of muscular walls with gastrointestinal mucosal lining. These lesions are almost invariably adjacent to the alimentary tract, most often found in the ileum, may communicate with the lumen, and may be multiple. We experienced an unusual case of a 18-month-old male patient who presented with intermittent blood-tinged stool as an initial manifestation of ileal duplication. The lesion was revealed by bleeding scan and Meckel's scan and was suspected to be a bleeding Meckel's diverticulum due to peptic ulceration of the ileum adjacent to the ectopic gastric mucosa. At laparotomy, a 3-cm-sized cystic mass communicating with the adjacent bowel lumen and multiple conglomerated lymph nodes were identified at the mesenteric side of the distal ileum. Resection of the lesion and adjacent ileum containing enlarged lymph nodes was done. In microscopic findings, the unilocular cystic structure lying in the mesenteric border showed an intestinal wall lined in part by gastric fundic mucosa with a small ulcer, especially at the blind end, and in part by small intestinal mucosa. Muscularis propria and serosa were also present.
Deception ; Gastric Mucosa ; Hemorrhage* ; Humans ; Ileum ; Infant ; Intestinal Mucosa ; Laparotomy ; Lymph Nodes ; Male ; Meckel Diverticulum ; Mucous Membrane ; Peptic Ulcer ; Serous Membrane ; Ulcer

PURPOSE: This study was performed to determine the incidence of BMM and to correlate the presence of these micrometastases with prognosis and othet clinicopathologic features. Materials AND Methods: BMM was evaluated in 220 breast cancer patients between July, 1991 and January, 1997, using mouse monoclonal antibody (AE1/AE3) against cytokeratin in an immunofluorescent assay. RESULTS: Of the 220 patients, 71 (32.3%) were positive for BMM. There were no association between bone marrow positivity and nodal status, TNM stage, known histopathologic parameters, and hormona1 receptor. Median follow-up for 220 patients was 41.6 month. The relapse rate was 16.8% (37/220). Twenty-four (33.8%) of 37 patients were positive for BMM and 13 (8.7%) were negative (p<0.05). Bone metastasis occurred in 16 cases, and was more common in BMM positive patients (14 of 24, 54.2%, versus 2 of 13, 15.4%, p < 0.05). Twenty-six patients were died of relapsed breast cancer. In overall survival, patients who was negative for BMM showed higher survival rate (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: BMM was a good predictor for distant metastasis, especially bone metastasis, and for poor prognosis. But no association was found between bone marrow positivity and tumor size, nodal status, stage, histologic parameter and hormonal receptor status.
Animals ; Bone Marrow* ; Breast Neoplasms* ; Breast* ; Fluorescent Antibody Technique ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Incidence ; Keratins ; Mice ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Neoplasm Micrometastasis* ; Prognosis ; Recurrence ; Survival Rate

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Diagnosis* ; Humans ; Thoracic Injuries* ; Thorax* ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed*