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 ; Aneurysm, False ; Angiography ; Arteries ; Diagnostic Tests, Routine ; Forehead ; Humans ; Parents ; Scalp ; Temporal Arteries

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Arthritis, Rheumatoid* ; Elbow Prosthesis* ; Elbow*

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Arthroplasty* ; Knee*

OBJECTIVES: Acrylamide is a neurotoxin inducing central-peripheral distal axonopathy. The authors evaluated several neurologic tests to screen the early effect of occupational acrylamide exposure. METHODS: Fifty-two males working either in the production of acrylamide monomer or in the handling of acrylamide in Ulsan, Korea, were selected and subcategorized into the high-exposure group (n=10, mean age of 30. 4 years) and the low-exposure group (n=42, mean age of 28.9 years). Twenty-three males (mean age 29.4 years) from medical professionals and students were chosen as a non-exposed reference group. Symptom questionnaire, neurologic examination, electrodiagnostic test, vibrotactile threshold test, and Lanthony desaturated 15 panel test (LD-15D) were done. RESULTS: The high-exposure group showed more number of specific symptoms on questionnaire and more abnormal two point discrimination test. High-exposure group showed a significant difference in the median motor conduction velocity, peroneal nerve motor latency, sensory amplitude of median nerve action potential, and sensory latency of sural nerve. The vibrotactile threshold of the high-exposure group was significantly higher in both hands and feet than that of the low-exposure group and the reference group. Average color confusion index on the LD-15D was significantly higher in the high-exposure group (median 22.7, range 0-135.7) than in the reference group (median 2.4, range 0-33.2). CONCLUSIONS: The symptom questionnaire, vibrotactile threshold test, and color discrimination test are sensitive in detection of the early acrylamide-induced neuropathy, and the combination of these tests would further facilitate the effectiveness of the screening.
Acrylamide* ; Action Potentials ; Discrimination (Psychology) ; Foot ; Hand ; Humans ; Korea ; Male ; Mass Screening ; Median Nerve ; Neurologic Examination ; Peroneal Nerve ; Questionnaires ; Sural Nerve ; Ulsan

Multiple neurilerv,omas occurred i.n a 14-year-old boy with neurofibromatosis and right eye blindness. His father succumbed to neurofibromatosis at the age of 42. Histologically-proved neurilemornas and neurofibromas were noted on the face, neck, trunk and extremities, but no cafe au-Iait spots ohserved. There were nevus anemicus, hairy nevus and pigmented moles. The associated features in this patient includc muscular atrophies, weakness of the left hand, parest,hesia of the medial side of left forcarm and Dupuytrens contracture of left fourth finger.
Adolescent ; Blindness ; Dupuytren Contracture ; Extremities ; Fathers ; Fingers ; Hand ; Humans ; Male ; Muscular Atrophy ; Neck ; Neurilemmoma* ; Neurofibroma ; Neurofibromatoses* ; Nevus ; Nevus, Pigmented

A case of pachyonychia congcnita occurring in a 8 year-old boy is described. A few weeks after delivery, his mother noticed thickening of all the finger and toe nails of her baby. Family history was denied. In addition to characteristic features of pachyonychia congenita of all the nails, follicular keratotic papules were noted on the knees, elbows, buttocks and legs, and also tender thick calluses, on the soles with palnioplantar hyperhidrosis. There were three cornu cutaneurn on the popliteal and left antecubital fossae. Other associated fea.tures include a painful tense bulla at the left fourth finger, irnpetiginous patches on the anterior thighs, hoarseness and leukokeratosis linguae, sparseness of the scalp hairs, and granulosis rubra nasi accompanied by facial hyperhidrosis.
Bony Callus ; Buttocks ; Child ; Elbow ; Fingers ; Hair ; Hoarseness ; Humans ; Hyperhidrosis ; Knee ; Leg ; Leukoplakia ; Male ; Mothers ; Nails, Malformed* ; Pachyonychia Congenita* ; Scalp ; Thigh ; Toes ; Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation

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Neurofibromatoses*

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Dislocations* ; Hip*

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Polymerase Chain Reaction* ; Pseudomonas*