No abstract available.
Coronary Restenosis*

We experinced a case of 4p+ syndrome in male infant. He had multiple anomalies such as flat occiput, hypertelorism, low set malformed ear, lower anterior hair line, depressed nose, broad nasal bridge, bilateral complete cleft lip and palate, short neck, unusual position of fingers, ventricular septal defect and umblical hernia. He menifested growth and developmental retardation. Karyotype with banding revealed an extra short arm of chromosome 4. The mother's karyotype was normal. His father and father's sister had a translocation between the short arm of chromosome 4 and the short arm of chromosome 9; their karyotypes were 46, XY, t(4;9) and 46, XX, t(4;9), respectively. In this case, trisomy 4p was the result of parental balanced translocatiom. As this is the first case in Korea, it is worthwhile to report with reviewing literature.
Arm ; Chromosomes, Human, Pair 4 ; Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9 ; Cleft Lip ; Ear ; Fathers ; Fingers ; Growth and Development ; Hair ; Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular ; Hernia ; Humans ; Hypertelorism ; Infant ; Karyotype ; Korea ; Male ; Neck ; Nose ; Palate ; Parents ; Siblings ; Trisomy

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Tuberculosis, Miliary*

No abstract available.
Curettage* ; Female ; Humans ; Pregnancy ; Pregnancy, Ectopic*

No abstract available.
Female ; Humans ; Middle Aged* ; Myofibroblasts

Between 1989 and 1993, 31 patients who had undergone ACL reconstruction using autogenous patellar bone-tendon-bone were studied to evaluate the effects on knee joint function. After having harvested the central one third of the patellar tendon, it was positioned isometrically through tunnels of tibia and femur and also central defect of the patellar ligament was sutured loosely. Clinically Hospital for special surgery(HSS) knee socre by Marshall 1997, manual knee test, knee extention and flexion angles, Cybex test, KT-2000 measurments and radiological study were performed for subjective and objective symptoms at the average follow-up 33 months (range 18-72 months). Quadriceps weakness of strength less than 80% of the normal side was present in 61% of patients, patellofemoral joint pain in 15%, AP translation more than 3mm in 23%, flexion contracture of 5 degree or more in 29%. Hospital for special surgery(HSS) knee score was improved from 35 to 46 in average during follow-up period. The height of the patella was increased in 2 cases and decreased in 6 cases within normal variation which was not significant statistically. The above results indicate that importance of postoperative rehabilitation program and extension position of knee joint after surgery place a major emphasis on the avoidance of flexion contracture and on the improvement of joint function.
Contracture ; Femur ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Joints ; Knee Joint ; Knee ; Patella ; Patellar Ligament ; Patellofemoral Joint ; Rehabilitation ; Tibia ; Transplants

In order to evaluate the effects of a topical application of homologous fibronectin on the healing of skin wounds, we made 2 excisional wounds on the back skin of each rat, applied ointment with or without fibronectin purified from citrated homologous plasma, and evaluated the effect according to wound size and microscopic findings. Excised lesions treated with carrier alone, but the difference was significant only in the early phase of wound healing, 2 and 3 days, according to wound size and microscopic changes. A significant decrease in wound size could be found in both groups, treated with ointment containing and not containing fibronectin, between day 4 and 9 when wound contraction was a major contributor to wound closure. Therefore it can be concluded that topical application of fibronectin has a beneficial effect on wound healing during its early phase, but no significant influence on wound contraction.
Administration, Topical ; Animals ; Fibronectins/blood/*therapeutic use ; Ointment Bases ; Rats ; Rats, Inbred Strains ; Skin/pathology ; Wound Healing/*drug effects

Two cases of abnormalities of the left ventricular wall(left ventricular aneurysm or diverticulum) are presented. A saccular deformity of the left ventricle may be and aneurysm or a diverticulum. In one case, the defect seems to be subcalvular aneurysm(or fibrous diverticulum) or aneurysm of the membranous ventricular septum; this lesion seems to be a natural consequence of spontaneous closure of a defect of the membranous septum. The other case, it seems that the defect is ventricular aneurysm with syndrome of myocardial infarction and normal coronary arteries, or double or accessory chambered left ventricle. The thromboembolic phenomenon was noted on a left frontoparietal lobe of brain. Both cases have the diagnosis supported by cardiac catheterization and angiography. The clinical, angiographic and pathologic characteristic of diverticulum and aneurysm of the heart are reviewed, and an attempt is made to clarify the concept of aneurysm and diverticulum of the heart.
Aneurysm* ; Angiography ; Brain ; Cardiac Catheterization ; Cardiac Catheters ; Congenital Abnormalities ; Coronary Vessels ; Diagnosis ; Diverticulum* ; Heart ; Heart Ventricles* ; Myocardial Infarction ; Ventricular Septum

Primary intracranial choriocarcinoma is a extremely rare neoplasm since the case was reported by Askanasy, in 1906, there have been 35 reported, even if germinal neoplasms containing chorocarcinoma-like tissue are added. But pure choriocarcinoma was rarely reported. The purpose of this paper is to report a case of 18-year-old boy with tumor in subependymal region around left frontal horn, which was present with high level of serum beta chain of chorionic gonadotropin(B-HCG) and was verified as germine choriocarcinoma by biopay.
Adolescent ; Animals ; Choriocarcinoma* ; Chorion ; Female ; Horns ; Humans ; Male ; Pregnancy

Thoracopagus is very rare congenital anomaly with an incidence estimated at 1 in 50,000 deliveries or 1 in 600 twin deliveries. If twining is initiated after the embryonic disc and the rudimentary amnionic sac have been formed, and if division of the embryonic disc is incomplete, conjoined twins result. We experienced a case of thoracopagus in 28 years old woman. We present this case with a brief review of literatures.
Adult ; Amnion ; Female ; Humans ; Incidence ; Twins, Conjoined