No abstract available.
Humans ; Inpatients*

OBJECTIVE: To report the efficacy of vaginally administered bromocriptine. MATERIAL AND METHOD: Case report. RESULTS: The prolactin level was significantly decreased after the administration of bromocriptine vaginally. CONCLUSIONS: The vaginal administration of bromocriptine can be an alternative to oral administration in patients with hyperprolactinemia who show severe side effects.
Administration, Intravaginal ; Administration, Oral ; Bromocriptine* ; Humans ; Hyperprolactinemia* ; Prolactin

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Child* ; Edema* ; Humans

No abstract available.
Anus, Imperforate*

A complex syndrome, later called as Prader-Willi syndrome, was first described in 1956 by Prader et al, and Zellweger and Schneider characterized this syndrome as hypogonadism, hypotonia, hypomentia and boesty. It is not rare in western countries and more than 400 cases have been reported until 1983. But our interest arose because of our recent experience of diffuse noncirrhotic fibrosis of the liver in a 6 year-old boy who had the clinical features of Prader-Willi syndrome. The core of liver showed destruction of most of the hepatic lobules, particularly of the acinar zone 3, and replacement bt diffuse fibrosis. The remaining liver cells underwent fatty change, and the overall changes resembled chronic sclerosing hyaline disease of the alcoholic type. Inflammation was negligible. This particular case suggests that the severe fatty change of liver could result in irreversible damage to the hepatocytes and progressive fibrosis.

To provide ideas for the recognition of neonatal and infantile liver diseases caused by cytomegalovirus(CMV) infection, histopathological examinations were made on hepatic tissues obtained by biopsy or autopsy from 23 patients. All patients were sero-positive for IgM anti CMV and had no other known or suggested etiologic factors for their liver disease. There were five different types of liver diseases: 8 cases of giant cell hepatitis(34.8%), 4 cases of biliary atresia(17.4%), 5 cases of biliary atresia with changes of neonatal hepatitis(21.7%), 4 cases of diffuse hepatic fibrosis(17.4%) and 2 cases of hepatic necrosis with CMV inclusion(8.7%). The diffuse hepatic fibrosis involved both the hepatic lobules and portal areas without evidences of regeneration. This type of liver disease appeared to be a chronic progressive illness that began during the first week of life, and in 3 of 4 cases, the liver biopsy was dong at 5 to 9 months after birth. The two patients showing CMV inclusion in their liver were premature of debilitated, and died within I month after birth. Diffuse hepatic necrosis as well as the cytomegalic change of bile duct epithelium was characteristic. The findings suggest that the pattern of CMV liver disease depends on the major site of hepatic injury, the status of status of patient's defense mechanism and the chronicity of illness.
Infant ; Male ; Female ; Infant, Newborn ; Humans ; Biopsy

Percutaneous vertebroplasty is an effective, minimally invasive procedure for the treatment of vertebral compression fractures, and is a technique for treating lower back pain that appears to be increasingly popular throughout the world. We experienced two cases involving a rare complication of percutaneous vertebroplasty, namely pulmonary embolism caused by acrylic cement. One patient showed no subjective symptoms after vertebroplasty, while the other experienced chest pain. In the former, fluoroscopy demonstrated perivertebral venous leakage during vertebroplasty, and at chest radiography, tubular or branching high-density linear structures were observed. In addition, intravascular emboli were identified at CT. In the second patient, symptomatic therapy led to reduced chest pain.
Chest Pain ; Fluoroscopy ; Fractures, Compression ; Humans ; Low Back Pain ; Pulmonary Embolism* ; Radiography ; Thorax ; Vertebroplasty*

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Temporal Bone*

Notch stenosis had been thought to be related with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the possible relationship between notch stenosis and ACL injury. We measured the notch seen on the axial section in MRI at popliteal groove. We have retrospectively analyzed 116 cases of knee MRI. All cases were divided into three groups ; Group I were fifty six normal knee. Group II were thirty knee with contact ACL injuries. Group III were thirty knee with non contact ACL injuries. The result were as follows; 1. Statistically significant difference was found in the notch width index (NWI) between group I and group III but no significant differences was found in the NWI between group I and group II. 2. Statistically significant correlation to non-contact ACL injuries was found in the NWI at both anterior and posterior outlet of the notch. 3. An unique shape of the notch was found in the majority of group III.There seemed to be an obvious relationship between notch stenosis and non-contact ACL injuries.
Anterior Cruciate Ligament* ; Constriction, Pathologic ; Knee ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging* ; Retrospective Studies

OBJECTIVE: This study was to investigate the localization of CDK inhibitor, p57(kip2) in mouse endometrium during the estrus cycle and pre- and peri-implantation periods. METHODS: The p57(kip2) protein was immunostained from endometrium of mouse sacrificed at diestrus, proestrus, estrus, and metestrus cycle, and at day 1-6 post-coitum (p.c.). RESULTS: The staining in the luminal epithelium was very weak in comparison with glandular and stromal cells. In diestrus stage, immunoreactivity of p57(kip2) was heterogeneously strong in parts of decidualized or degenerated stromal cells. In proestrus stage, strong immunoreactivity p57(kip2) was largely found in stromal cells. But, p57(kip2) was showed low immunoreactivity in estrus stage. In metestrus stage, immunoreactivity of p57(kip2) was heterogeneously strong in decidualized stromal cells. In day 1-2 p.c., immunoreactivity of p57(kip2) was low in some endometrial stromal cells. In day 3-4 p.c., immunoreactivity of p57(kip2) was strong in some endometrial stromal cells. In day 5-6 p.c., immunoreactivity of p57(kip2) was strong in decidual cells. CONCLUSION: These suggest that p57(kip2) may play an essential role in endometrial differentiation for maintenance of implantation, especially decidualization of endometrial stromal cells.
Animals ; Diestrus ; Endometrium* ; Epithelium ; Estrus* ; Female ; Metestrus ; Mice* ; Phenobarbital ; Proestrus ; Stromal Cells