1.A case of pure immature teratoma of the ovary.
Kwang Hwa AHN ; Seung Chul KIM ; Hak Soon KIM
Korean Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 1992;35(12):1849-1856
2.The Distribution Pattern and Related Factors of Waist-to-Hip Ratio in Middle Aged.
Seong Won KIM ; Hye Soon PARK ; Chul Ju KIM
Journal of the Korean Academy of Family Medicine 1997;18(5):501-510
BACKGROUND: The regional fat distribution is known to be related with some cardiovasular risk factors independently to total body fat amount. Regional fat distribution pattern can be assessed by waist to-hip ratio(WHR). WHR distribution patterns depend on age, sex, race and show regional difference. But, our own unique data are inadequate, so we tried to investigate distribution patterns, cut off points and related factors of WHR in middle aged men and women among Korean. METHODS: The study population were middle aged men and women above 40 years old who visited our hospital for routine check up from April to July, 1996. We measured height, weight, blood pressure, waist circumference, hip circumference, fasting blood sugar and total cholesterol in 1,000 persons. We gathered data about diet habits, exercise, smoking and drinking status by standard questionnaire. We analized above data by using SAS for Window 6.10. RESULTS: The study population numbers of men and women were 494 and 499, and average ages of men and women were 49.3 and 50.5 years respectively. For men, the average WHRs as a whole were 0.895, and 0.893, 0.893 and 0.911 in their forties, fifties and above sixties respectively. For women, the average WHRs as a whole were 0.827, and 0.816, 0.837 and 0.850 in their forties, fifties and above sixties respectively. The percentage above WHR 1.0, 0.95, and 0.90 in men were 2.4%, 11.7% and 46% and the percentage above WHR 0.90, 0.85, and 0.80 in women were 8.2%, 32.9% and 68.7%. Adjusting by age, body mass index, WHR was significantly correlated with weight, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure in men only. For men, WHR was associated with alcohol drinking positively and with exercise negatively. For women, WHR was associated with alcohol drinking and smoking status positively. CONCLUSIONS: The WHR had a tendency to increase according to age. The 90th percentile points in men and women were 0.957 and 0.894 respectively. WHR was related with several cardiovascular risk factors and several life styles.
Adipose Tissue
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Adult
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Alcohol Drinking
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Blood Glucose
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Blood Pressure
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Body Mass Index
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Cholesterol
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Continental Population Groups
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Drinking
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Fasting
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Female
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Food Habits
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Hip
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Humans
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Life Style
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Male
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Middle Aged*
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Risk Factors
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Smoke
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Smoking
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Waist Circumference
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Waist-Hip Ratio*
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Surveys and Questionnaires
3.A Study Of The Peripheral Neuropathy Among The Workers Exposed To Carbon Disulfide.
Dae Seong KIM ; Soon Suck KIM ; Chul Whan CHA
Korean Journal of Preventive Medicine 1993;26(2):282-292
Neurotoxicity in the workplace may occur with exposure to scores of chemicals. Although large acute outbreaks of the occupational neurological disease are rare, the incidence of occupational neurotoxicity in its subtler aspects is unknown. A working knowledge of both the major occupational neurotoxic solvents and the tools used by clinical neurologists and neurotoxicologists to evaluate neurotoxicity in working population is a necessity for the occupational physician. To investigate the effects of carbon disulfide(CS2) on the peripheral nerve system using the nervous conduction study, 105 male workers working in the spinning room of a viscose rayon factory were examined and compared with a sex and age matched, unexposed 105 male controls using t-test analysis. 72.4% of CS2-exposed workers complained of neurological symptoms, and the abnormal cases in nerve conduction study were 48.6%. The abnormal cases of nerve conduction study increased in number according as the age and duration of exposure increased. In this study, asymptomatic workers were confirmed to have subclinical neuropathy by nerve conduction study. Also as there were abnormal cases even in its duration of exposure below 4 years, nerve conduction study turned out to be ways of discovering of early peripheral neuropathy. In nerve conduction study, the amplitude, velocity, F-wave latency and H-reflex of the motor and sensory nerves in both upper and lower extremities were significant different between CS2-exposed workers and the controls. From the pathological viewpoint, both segmental and axonal degenerations were assumed in this study.
Axons
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Carbon Disulfide*
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Carbon*
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Disease Outbreaks
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H-Reflex
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Humans
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Incidence
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Lower Extremity
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Male
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Neural Conduction
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Peripheral Nerves
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Peripheral Nervous System Diseases*
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Solvents
4.Usefulness of Three - Dimensional CT Angiography as a Confirmatory Diagnostic Test for Scalp Pseudoaneurysms.
Soon Kwon KIM ; Sun Chul HWANG ; Bum Tae KIM
Korean Journal of Cerebrovascular Surgery 2010;12(2):87-90
OBJECTIVE: We report here on two cases of pseudoaneurysms that were diagnosed using computed tomographic angiography (CTA), with one arising in the superficial temporal artery and the other arising in the occipital artery. METHODS: Case 1: A 29-year-old man presented with a slow growing, pulsatile mass on the left side of his forehead following a blow from a fist 10 days earlier. CTA revealed an 11 x 8 x 11-mm oval pseudoaneurysm arising from the frontal branch of the left superficial temporal artery. Case 2 : A 36-year-old man presented with a pulsatile mass in the right suboccipital region that had been present for the past year. He had no history of direct trauma. CTA revealed a 15 x 8 x 13-mm oval dye-filled sac arising from the right occipital artery. RESULTS: Based on the CTA images, the parent arteries were exposed and ligated proximally and distally to the pseudoaneurysms and then they were completely excised. CONCLUSION: CTA is a minimally invasive technique for making the diagnosis of scalp pseudoaneurysms and CTA is also useful for the preoperative planning.
Adult
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Aneurysm, False
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Angiography
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Arteries
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Diagnostic Tests, Routine
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Forehead
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Humans
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Parents
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Scalp
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Temporal Arteries
5.Modulation of the Host Antimicrobial Peptide (Human beta-defensin-1, -2) Expression of Vaginal Squamous Epithelial Cells with using 17beta-Estradiol and Progesterone.
Min Su KIM ; Yu Chan KIM ; Sang Chul KIM ; Soon Chul MYUNG
Korean Journal of Urology 2007;48(4):439-443
PURPOSE: In mammals, alphaand beta-defensins are antimicrobial peptides that are expressed in various epithelial and phagocytic cells. Human beta-defensin-1 and -2 (hBD-1, hBD-2) have recently been shown to be expressed in various epithelial cells. Vaginal mucosa can be a target of vaginitis and the site of uropathogens' colonization that precedes urinary tract infections. Therefore, innate host defense mediators like antimicrobial peptides in the vaginal mucosa are important. Estrogen and progesterone receptors have been shown to be expressed in the vaginal squamous epithelium. Sex hormones like estrogen and progesterone may cause vaginal atrophy or susceptibility to uropathogens. So, we performed this study to investigate the expression patterns of hBD-1 and -2 mRNA in vaginal squamous epithelium (VSE) with using lipopolysaccharide (LPS), 17beta-estradiol and progesterone. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Normal VSE cells that were retrieved from vaginal tissue during vaginoplasty were primarily cultured in keratinocyte growth medium and they we allowed to undergo their 3rd passage. Modulation of the expressions of hBD-1 and -2 mRNA by various stimuli (LPS 0.5microgram/ml, E2 2nM, P 1micrometer) was measured by semiquantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). RESULTS: HBD-1 and -2 were constitutively expressed in the normal VSE cell lines, but the hBD-2 expression was not significant. A marked increase of the constitutive expression of hBD-2 mRNA was observed upon stimulation with LPS, but not upon stimulation with E2. A moderate decrease of the constitutive expression of hBD-2 mRNA upon stimulation with LPS was observed with administering progesterone. CONCLUSIONS: These expressions of hBD-2 mRNA may have important roles in the innate host defense of the urogenital area. Artificial intake of progesterone may lead to susceptibility via a decrease of defensins.
Atrophy
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beta-Defensins
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Cell Line
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Colon
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Defensins
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Epithelial Cells*
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Epithelium
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Estrogens
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Gonadal Steroid Hormones
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Humans
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Keratinocytes
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Mammals
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Mucous Membrane
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Peptides
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Phagocytes
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Polymerase Chain Reaction
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Progesterone*
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Receptors, Progesterone
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Reverse Transcription
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RNA, Messenger
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Urinary Tract Infections
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Vagina
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Vaginitis
6.Congenital Hepatic Fibrosis with Caroli's Disease.
Yoon Jung KIM ; Soon Ae OAK ; In Chul LEE
Korean Journal of Pathology 1997;31(3):275-279
Congenital hepatic fibrosis is an inherited, congenital disorder of the liver, and is occasionally associated with cystic disease of the liver and kidney. We present a case of congenital hepatic fibrosis with Caroli's disease. A 21-year-old woman had suffered from an episodic fever with headaches for 3 years. In laboratory examination, the liver function test was within the normal limits. Esophageal varix was noted by an endoscopic examination. Hepatosplenomegaly and multiple dilated bile ducts were seen by abdominal CT scanning. An orthotopic whole liver transplantation was done. The liver was fibrotic and enlarged. Multiple cystically dilated intrahepatic ducts were noted. Microscopically, diffuse portal fibrosis and widening with proliferation of bile ductules were seen. Intrahepatic bile ducts were markedly dilated and tortuous. The liver cell cords were well preserved.
Bile
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Bile Ducts
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Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic
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Caroli Disease*
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Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities
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Esophageal and Gastric Varices
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Female
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Fever
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Fibrosis*
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Headache
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Humans
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Kidney
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Liver
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Liver Function Tests
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Liver Transplantation
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Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Young Adult
7.New DNA Extraction Method for Diagnosis of Tuberculosis by Polymerase Chain Reaction.
Dae Young SEO ; Han Chul SON ; Soon Ho KIM
Korean Journal of Clinical Pathology 1997;17(1):109-119
BACKGROUND: To assess the clinical utility of new DNA extraction method, the authors attempted PCR using mycobacterial DNA extracted by Chelex 100 ion exchange resin method for 63 clinical samples in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and compared with proteinase K method, simultaneously. METHODS: We used Chelex 100 ion exchange resin for preparation of DNA. Decontaminated sputums were mixed with resin and incubated at 56degrees C and 100degrees C without opening tube. After centrifugation, supernatants were used directly as template for PCR. 245 bps in primary PCR and 188 bps in nested PCR were amplified and analysed by agarose gel electrophoresis EtBr staining. RESULTS: Chelex 100 ion exchange resin method is more simple, rapid and reliable than proteinase K method, and during sample preparation, carry-over contamination loss of amplificated DNA, influence of organic solvents and cross-contamination are diminished. The results of PCR products are interpreted more distinctively in Chelex 100 ion exchange resin method than proteinase K method. CONCLUSIONS: In the basis of the results, it could be suggested that extraction of mycobacterial DNA by Chelex 100 ion exchange resin is more simple, rapid reliable method than that of conventional method for detection of mycobacterial DNA in patients with tuberculosis by polymerase chain reaction.
Centrifugation
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Diagnosis*
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DNA*
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Electrophoresis, Agar Gel
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Endopeptidase K
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Humans
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Ion Exchange
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Polymerase Chain Reaction*
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Solvents
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Sputum
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Tuberculosis*
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Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
8.A case of amniotic band syndrome with anencephaly.
Young Chul YOO ; Chung Hoon KIM ; Soon Beom KANG
Korean Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 1991;34(5):705-710
No abstract available.
Amniotic Band Syndrome*
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Anencephaly*
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Infant, Newborn
9.A Case of Rieger's Syndrome Associated with Controlled Glaucoma.
Soon Kuk JUNG ; Sung Ki LEE ; Bong Chul KIM
Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1995;36(5):890-895
Rieger's syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant developmental anomaly characterized by ocular and systemic abnomalities. These disorders are typically bilateral and usually diagnosed at birth or in the childhood. The most common ocular defects are hypoplasia of the iris, a prominent Schwalbe's line with iris strands and corectopia. A large number of patients have glaucoma due to devel-opmental defects of the anterior chamber angle structure. The authors experienced a case of Rieger's syndrome which was found in 31-year-old female, who had characteristic ocular and other systemic abnormalities. Associated glaucoma was well controlled by filtering surgery.
Adult
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Anterior Chamber
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Atrophy
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Edema
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Female
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Filtering Surgery
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Frontal Lobe
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Glaucoma*
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Glioblastoma
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Humans
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Intracranial Pressure
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Iris
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Neurofibromatoses
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Optic Atrophy
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Optic Nerve
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Optic Nerve Diseases*
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Parturition
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Skin
10.A Case of Aplastic Anemia Following hepatitis.
Gae Soon YEO ; Doo Kweon KIM ; Chul Ho KIM ; Soon Yong LEE
Journal of the Korean Pediatric Society 1990;33(6):864-869
No abstract available.
Anemia, Aplastic*
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Hepatitis*