In order to grasp the real status of male sterility of the Koreans, clinical observation, semen analysis, and testicular biopsy were conducted on 257 cases. the study was performed in the Department of Urology, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine during the period from April 1963 to March 1968 for5 years. 1) The 257 cases complained of sterility occupied 4.3% of the total number of outpatients, 5927. visited during the observation period. 2) The age range of the cases applied was from 55, maximum, to 21. minimum, with the category of 26 to 35 occupying 2/3 of the whole. 3) The majority of the cases were in the 2nd to 5th year of their marriages 10.8%. 4) Cities were found to produce more of such cases than the country. and no specific relationship was revealed to be connected with patient's occupations. 5) Tuberculous diseases weremore prevalent in the past histories of those involved, and gonorrhea and mumps showed a decreasing tendency. 6) 141 cases (55.2%) produced 2 to 4ml of semen amount and 40 cases, less than 1.0ml. 7) 90 cases (35.O%) were found have azoospermia and 122 cases (47.7%) had more than 50 X 10(6) sperms, 8) 106 cases (63.5%) had higher than 60% of active sperm while 16 cases showed to have less than 20%. 9) Findings of testicular biopsies were conducted on 35 cases with azoospermia of oligospermia: Germinal cell aplasia-17 cases (48.6%); spermatogenic arrest-10 cases (28.6%); hypospermatogenesis-6 cases (17.1%); normal-2 cases.
Azoospermia ; Biopsy ; Gonorrhea ; Gyeongsangbuk-do ; Hand Strength ; Humans ; Infertility ; Infertility, Male* ; Male ; Male* ; Marriage ; Mumps ; Occupations ; Oligospermia ; Outpatients ; Semen ; Semen Analysis ; Spermatozoa ; Urology

We report a case of focal eosinophilic myositis of the frontalis muscle in a 38-year-old man. The skin lesion was a single firm flesh-colored swollen lesion measuring 1×1.5 cm in size on the right forehead. The biopsy revealed inflammatory infiltrates composed of mainly eosinophils and a few lymphocytes in the muscles. The skin lesion subsided with intralesional injections of triamcinolone acetonide, 5 mg/ml.
Adult ; Biopsy ; Eosinophils* ; Forehead ; Humans ; Injections, Intralesional ; Lymphocytes ; Muscles ; Myositis* ; Skin ; Triamcinolone Acetonide

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Humans ; Infant, Newborn*

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Athletes* ; Dysmenorrhea* ; Female ; Humans

Craniopharyngioma is a benign, slow-growing tumor that constitues 3-9% of all intracranial tumors, and arises from epithelial remnants of the Rathke's pouch. We analized MR (2.0T) findings of ten cases with surgically proved craniopharyngioma retrospectively. CT was avilable in five cases, and Gd-DTPA was used in six cases. Characteristic findings of craniopharyngioma in MRI included multilocularity and variable signal intensities within each loculus that were more prominent in T1WI. Detection rate of calcification in MR was 60%. Six cases with Gd-DTPA enhancement revealed irregular or rim-like enhancement. MRI provides useful informations regarding the location, extent and biochemical characteristics of the oraniopharyngioma as well as its relationship to the neighboring structures which will be valuable in planning surgical resection.
Craniopharyngioma* ; Gadolinium DTPA ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Pheniramine ; Retrospective Studies

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Esophageal Atresia* ; Tracheoesophageal Fistula*

The plica is remaining synovial septa in adult life which developed in early fetal life. The suprapatellar plica separates the suprapatellar pouch from the knee joint which sometimes has chnical significance according to its shape, but it has been occasionally overlooked and also pathophysiology of symptomatic plicae may be hard to explain. The authors experienced 7 cases of suprapatellar plica syndrome which mimic soft tissue tumor in 7 patients who had complained of vague pain and ill defined mass around the knee and by arthroscopy found the imperforated suprapatellar plica in which increased hydraulic pressure cavity evokes the clinical symptoms and signs exarnination from 1992 to 1997. We suggest that the suprapatellar plica with complete septum might be clinically significant in patients who are in active life.
Adult ; Arthroscopy ; Humans ; Knee ; Knee Joint

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Neuralgia* ; Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation*

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The 35 patients of femur neck fracture treated with bipolar hemiarthroplasty were followed up for an average of 18 months with the range of 12 months to 5 years after bipolar hemiarthroplasty from Jan. 1986 to Dec. 1992. 1. Mean age of the patient was 68 years old(25-93) and mean hospitalization period was 55 days. 2. Associated medical problems were diabetes mellitus in 6 cases, cerebrovascular disease in 5 cases, rectal cancer in 1 case and pulmonary tuberculosis in 1 case. 3. An anterior dislocation, one of the early complication occured in 1 case, and superficial infection in 3 cases(8.5%), a deep infection, one of the late complication occured in 1 case. 4. The clinical result was focus on the functional hip assessment of bipolar hemiarthroplasty after femur neck fracture, and the functional results evaluated by Lunceford's Method were excellent in 22 cases(63%), good in 5 cases(14.3%), fair in 5 cases(14.3%), poor in 3 cases(8.6%). 5. The bipolar hemiarthroplasty was satisfactory method for the displaced femur neck fracture in the elderly patients, but to return the patient's preinjury activity level, more active postoperative rehabilitation should be required.
Aged ; Cerebrovascular Disorders ; Diabetes Mellitus ; Dislocations ; Femoral Neck Fractures ; Femur Neck ; Femur ; Hemiarthroplasty ; Hip ; Hospitalization ; Humans ; Methods ; Rectal Neoplasms ; Rehabilitation ; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary