The anterior horn of the medial meniscus is the site of most variations, but anomalies of the medial meniscus are extremely rare. From July 1990 through December 1994, the authors performed arthroscopy on 1068 symptomatic knee joints and incidentally found anomalous insertion of the anterior horn of the medial meniscus into the anterior cruciate ligament in eleven knees. They had another lesion(7 discoid lateral meniscus with or without tear, medial collateral ligament tear, Posterior cruciate ligament avulsion fracture). All but one discoid lateral menisci were reshaped, one had to be treated by total lateral meniscectomy, discoid medial meniscus also by reshaping, torn medial meniscus by partial meniscectomy, torn medial collateral ligament by repair and avulsion fracture of posterior cruciate ligament by arthroscopic pinmonths(average, 21.7 months) after surgery. The results were satisfactory except for 2 patients. One damaged his knee in a traffic accident and the other was treated by total meniscectomy of discoid lateral meniscus. It was concluded that this anomaly was not related to the patient's symptoms and mainly associated with discoid lateral meniscus.
Accidents, Traffic ; Animals ; Anterior Cruciate Ligament ; Arthroscopy ; Collateral Ligaments ; Horns ; Humans ; Knee ; Knee Joint ; Menisci, Tibial ; Posterior Cruciate Ligament ; Tears

The brachial plexus block by interscalene approach is useful for any procedure on upper extremity, including the shoulder. Complications such as high epidural block, total spinal anesthesia, permanent neurologic damage, phrenic nerve block, cardiac arrest, pneumothorax and Horner's syndrome etc. were reported. Ipsilateral Horner' syndrome can be used for confirmation of the accompanying sympathetic block. We experienced a case of 35-year old male patient who developed ipsilateral Horner's syndrome following the injection of 40ml of 1% lidocaine with 1 : 200,000 epinephrine to brachial plexus by interscalene approach. This compication lasted for 10days after interscalene brachial plexus block.
Adult ; Anesthesia, Spinal ; Brachial Plexus* ; Epinephrine ; Heart Arrest ; Horner Syndrome* ; Humans ; Lidocaine ; Male ; Phrenic Nerve ; Pneumothorax ; Shoulder ; Upper Extremity

Ninety-one cases of genitourinary tract injuries which were admitted to Severance Hospital during the period from Jan. 1960 to Aug. 1968 were analyzed clinically and statistically. And it was investigated compared with previous papers 1) The rate of genitourinary injuries accounted for 7.3 per cent to the total admission patients during eight years sixty-nine per cent of all injuries were in men and thirty-one per cent in women. The age distribution was much the same as that found in previous literature. Most favorable age was in from 20 to50 years for 72.5 percent 2) The meet common involvement site was in urethra for32.9 per cent while external genitalia showing most common site in war wound Also iatrogenic ureteral injuries was relatively high in spite of most less commonest incidence in previous paper 3) Thirty-six per cent of all injuries weredue to traffic or vehicular accident and twenty-four per cent 'due to iatrogenic. Majority of these iatrogenic injuries occurred in pelvic operation. Falls kick and blow were listed not less frequently. 4) On observation of kidney injuries. predisposed hydronephrotic kidney was injured more frequently due to mild external forces and three cases of sixteen kidney injuries had hydronephrosis dueto stone and congenital ureteral stricture in this series 5) An incidence of ureteral injury during radical hysterectomy was variable in literature. but it was noted around 10 percent generally. In reviewing 197 cases of radical hysterectomy for carcinoma of cervix, incidence of ureteral injuries was 12 cases(7.3 per cent) and it was listed 9.3 percent including bladder injuries. 6) In investigating bladder injuries, 53 percent of injuries were associated with pelvic bone fracture And 87 per cent was extraperitoneal type and 13 per cent wasin intraperitoneal rupture. 7) Also majority of urethral injuries were associatedwith pelvic bone fracture especially in car accident cases and then involved posterior urethra for 85 per cent. And bulbous urethra was injured by straddle injury for 70 per cent.
Age Distribution ; Cervix Uteri ; Constriction, Pathologic ; Female ; Genitalia ; Humans ; Hydronephrosis ; Hysterectomy ; Incidence ; Kidney ; Male ; Pelvic Bones ; Rupture ; Ureter ; Urethra ; Urinary Bladder ; Wounds and Injuries

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Pregnancy* ; Spermatozoa*

Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor is a rare sex-cord stromal tumor of the ovary and accounts for less than 0.5% of all ovarian tumors. It is among the most fascinating from pathologic and clinical viewpoints in masculinization. We experience an unusual case of a poorly differentiated Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor in 60-year-old woman who showed masculinization and present it with brief review of literature.
Female ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; Ovary* ; Sertoli-Leydig Cell Tumor*

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Humans

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Walking*

We report herein s case of subcutaneous aspergillosis in a 41-year-old woman with lumbar spondylitis(L4~L5). The patient had received high doses of corticosteroids and broad-spectrum antibiotics and two times of operation due to lumbar problems. The diagnosis of Aspergillus fumigatus infection was established by the mycologic study of cultures from wound exudate and histopathologic examination of the second surgical specimens of subcutaneous soft tissue, which was assumed to be iatrogenically susceptible infection. Intravenous amphotericin B therapy was discontinued because of the immediste adverse effects. After twelve-week therapy of oral ketoconazole(400mg/day), open wound healed and spondylitis with neurologic signs eventually resolved. No evidence of recurrent infection was noted during six months of follow-up.
Adrenal Cortex Hormones ; Adult ; Amphotericin B ; Anti-Bacterial Agents ; Aspergillosis* ; Aspergillus fumigatus ; Diagnosis ; Exudates and Transudates ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Ketoconazole* ; Neurologic Manifestations ; Spondylitis* ; Wounds and Injuries

The differential diagnosis of atypical mycobacteriosis caused by atypical mycobacteria (with the exception of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium bovis, and Mycobacterium leprae) which are widly distributed in soil and water, from pulmonary tuberculosis is possible only when atypical mycobacteria are isolated and identified. In this investigation, attempts were made to isolate atypical mycobacteria from persons registered as tuberculosis patients in the Anyang Health Center in Anyang City, Kyungki province, Korea. Biological and biochemical tests were performed for the atypical mycobacteria isolated from these patients, also retrospective analysis of clinical and X-ray findings of the patients with bacteriologically confirmed atypical mycobacteriosis were done. The results can be summarized as follows; 1. 103 strains of mycobacteria were isolated among 334 sputum samples from patients. 2. Among the isolated mycobacteria, 10 strains (9.7%) were found to be an atypical mycobacteria and 93 strains (90.3%) were tubercle bacilli of human type. 3. On the basis of Runyon's grouping of atypical mycobacteria, there were 3 strains (30.0%) of scotochromogen and nonphotochromogen respectively, 4 strains (40.0%) of rapid grower, and no photochromogen. 4. By biochemical tests, 3 strains of scotochromogen were identified as Mycobacterium scroful-aceum (2 strains) and Mycobacterium szulgai (1 strain) 3 strains of nonphotochromogen were Mycobacterium avium-complex (2 strains) and Mycobacterium terriae (1 strain), and 4 strains of rapid grower were Mycobacterium fortuitum (3 strains) and Mycobacterium chelonae. 5. In drug sensitivity tests, all 10 strains isolated atypical mycobacteria showed resistance to various concentration of INH and SM and low concentration (10 mcg, 40 mcg and 50 mcg) of EB, TH, and CS, and were sensitive to only high concentration (20 mcg and 100 mcg) of EB, TH, CS, and RFP. 6. In analysis of clinical findings by the patients with bacteriologically confirmed atypical mycobacteriosis, it was found that clinical symptoms of these patients appeared not to be mild than those of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. The patients with atypical mycobacteriosis had been treated for pulmonary tuberculosis for a long time and they showed no improvement.
Diagnosis, Differential ; Drug Resistance* ; Gyeonggi-do ; Humans ; Korea ; Mycobacterium ; Mycobacterium bovis ; Mycobacterium chelonae ; Mycobacterium fortuitum ; Mycobacterium tuberculosis ; Nontuberculous Mycobacteria* ; Retrospective Studies ; Soil ; Sputum ; Tuberculosis ; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary* ; Water