No abstract available.
Hepatolenticular Degeneration*

BACKGROUND: Automated border detection(ABD) is a new echocardiographic modality providing continuous on-line measurements of left ventricular(LV) cavitary ares, volume, and ejection fraction(EF) throughout the cardiac cycle. Previous study showed that LV volume and EF measurements with ABD system approximate manually traced LV volume and EF obtained with conventional 2-dimensional echocardiography. But further clinical validation needs a comparison of LV function between the ABD system and established methods. The purpose of this study is to compare EF, peak ejection rate(PER) and peak filling rate(PFR) between on-line ABD system and the gated cardiac blood pool scinitigraphy. METHOD: 27 patients with an apical 4 chamber view of LV in which at least 75% of the endocardium was clearly seen were selected for this study. They had a normal sinus rhythm and underwent echocardiographic study on the same day of or one day before gated cardiac blood pool scintigraphic study. The off-line estimation of LV volume was performed by the method of disc, after manually tracing the endocardial border on the apical 4 chamber view and EFoff was calculated. Also on that view the ABD system was turned on, and EFABD, PEABD, PEABD were calculated automatically from LV volume curve. They were compared with EFRI, PERRI, and PERRI obtained by the gated cardiac blood pool scintigraphy. RESULTS: 1) EFoff and EFABD were highly correlated with EFRI(r=0.78, 0.90 respectively : p<0.001). The mean difference between EFRI and EFoff was 4+/-9%, and the limits of agreement between EFRI and EFoff were -16~22%, EFoff were less than EFRI(p<0.05). The mean difference between EFRI and EFABD was 5+/-7%, and the limits of agreement between EFRI and EFoff were -9~+19%. EFABD was also less than EFRI(p<0.05). 2) PERABD and PERABD were highly correlated with PERRI and PERRI(r=0.74, 0.60, respectively ; p<0.001). The mean difference between PERRI and PERABD was -0.1+/-0.7EDV(enddiastolic volume)/sec, and the limits of agreement were -1.5~+1.3EDV/sec. PEABD was slightly greater than PERRI(p>0.05). The mean difference between PERRI and PEABD was -0.8+/-0.8EDV/sec, and the limits of agreement were -2.4~+0.8EDV/sec. PEABD were greater than PERRI(p<0.01). CONCLUSION: EF, PER, PER measurements by the ABD system and the gated cardiac blood pool scintigraphy have significant correlations. Thus ABD echocardiography is a useful method for assessement of LV function.
Echocardiography* ; Endocardium ; Gated Blood-Pool Imaging* ; Humans ; Ventricular Function, Left*

Herpes zoster is known to be more frequent and severe in patients during immunosuppressive treatment and various predisposing factors, such as Hodgkin's disease, advanced tumor stage, local X-ray irradiation, splenectomy and cutaneous anergy. This report presents the case of a 23-year-old woman who developed herpes zoater on two separate occasione during the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus with immunosuppressive agents (corticosteroid and cyclophosphamide). In each occasion, it was involved by different and multiple dermatomes. Treatment with oral and intralesional corticosteroids administration proved to be beneficial without any complication, although some delayed recovery of the disease was noted.
Adrenal Cortex Hormones ; Causality ; Female ; Herpes Zoster* ; Hodgkin Disease ; Humans ; Immunosuppressive Agents ; Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic* ; Splenectomy ; Young Adult

No abstract available.
Foot* ; Hand* ; Herpangina* ; Mouth Diseases* ; Mouth*

The authors analysed statistically 4,231 Cases of the ocular injuries among 19,204 Out-and Inpatients who visited to the local eye clinic at Young-Deong Po, where are many factories, from Jan. 1971 to Dec. 1971. The incidence of ocular injuries was increased about two times as much as that in 1964 at this eye clinic and was more prevalent than other places. It was shown that the incidence was exceedingly more prevalent in male than in female and iron piece was most freguent one among materials which caused trauma(64.7%). Most of the patients were improved well with proper early management of trauma. 6.6% resulted in blindness.
Blindness ; Female ; Humans ; Incidence ; Inpatients ; Iron ; Male

Three cases of synchronous carcinomas of endometrium-fallopian tube, endometrium-cervix and endometrium-ovary are reported. Case 1 is endometrial endometrioid adenocarcinoma with FIGO stageIb, Grade 2 and tubal serous adenocarcinoma with FIGO stage Ib, Grade 2. Case 2 is endometrial serous carcinoma with FIGO stage Ilb and squamous cell carcinoma with FIGO stage Ial. Case 3 is endometrial endometrioid adenocarcinoma with FIGO stage Ia, Grade 1 and ovarian mucinous adenocarcinoma with FIGO stage IIIa, Grade 2. There is much confroversy with respect to staging and management of such cases since these tumors may represent either two synchronously occuring primaries or single primary with metastases. It is suggested that when each tumor is different histological subtype the tumors may be considered as two separate primaries and treatment may be less aggressive. It may be a favorable prognosis. The authors present three cases of synchronous carcinomas with a review of literature.
Adenocarcinoma ; Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous ; Carcinoma, Endometrioid ; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Prognosis

OBJECTIVE: We tried to evaluate the effects of arteriovenous fistula (AVF) on the nerve conductions of the arms in hemodialyzed patients with chronic renal failure (CRF). METHOD: Subjects were 22 patients with AVF in patients with CRF and 10 controls without AVF in patients with CRF. We studied nerve conductions, and compared the findings in the arms with fistula and without fistula, and the arms in controls. RESULTS: In ulnar motor nerve conduction study, the amplitude in fistula side was lower than non-fistula side, but the conduction velocity in non-fistula side was lower than fistula side. In radial motor nerve conduction study, the distallatency in non-fistula side was more delayed than that in fistula side. There were no statistical significancies between fistula side and non-fistula side in the other nerve conduction study parameters in arms. And there was no statistically different incidences of carpal tunnel syndrome in both sides. Comparing with controls, conduction velocities of ulnar and radial motor nerves and peak latencies of ulnar and radial sensory nerves were more delayed in both sides. CONCLUSION: There were no significant local effects of arteriovenous fistula on nerve conductions in patients with chronic renal failure.
Arm ; Arteriovenous Fistula* ; Carpal Tunnel Syndrome ; Fistula ; Humans ; Incidence ; Kidney Failure, Chronic* ; Neural Conduction*

Background: The aim of this study was to develop a scoring system to stratify the risk of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) and to select the proper management. Methods: We performed a systematic search of MEDLINE and Embase. Data regarding patients’ prognoses were obtained from the included studies. Odds ratios (ORs) with statistical significance were extracted from the publications. To generate a risk scoring system (RSS), ORs were summed (RSS1), and summed after natural-logarithmic transformation (RSS2). RSS1 and RSS2 were compared to the eighth edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system and the 2015 American Thyroid Association (ATA) guidelines for thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid carcinoma. Results: Five meta-analyses were eligible for inclusion in the study. Eight variables (sex, tumour size, extrathyroidal extension, BRAF mutation, TERT mutation, histologic subtype, lymph node metastasis, and distant metastasis) were included. RSS1 was the best of the analysed models. Conclusion We developed and validated a new RSS derived from previous meta-analyses for patients with PTC. This RSS seems to be superior to previously published systems.

PURPOSE: The mortality and morbidity rate after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) is still high, although the operative techniques and skills and the perioperative care has been improved. The incidence of PD for benign disease is 5~20%. The aim of this study is to determine the factors that differentiate between the benign group and the malignant group by comparing the clinical manifestations, and we studied the safety of performing PD for benign diseases by observing the early and late postoperative complications. METHODS: We retrospectively studied 124 patients who had been diagnosed with benign or malignant pancreatic diseases and who underwent PD between April 1995 and December 2005. We divided the patients into two groups, i.e., the benign group (20) and the malignant group (104), to compare their clinical characteristics and postoperative outcomes. Result: Chronic pancreatitis was the most common disease (35%) in the benign group and distal CBD cancer was the most common disease (40.4%) in the malignant group. Jaundice, weight loss, and elevation of CA 19-9 were more frequent in the malignant group than in the benign group (p<0.05). There were no statistical differences in the mortality rate (10.0% vs 6.7%), reoperation rate (5.0% vs 4.8%), hospital stays (27.1 days vs 24.0 days), early complications (30.0% vs 44.6%) and late complications (22.2% vs 26.4%) between the two groups. There were no mortality and newly developed malignancy during 33.4 months of follow-up period in benign group. CONCLUSION: On the preoperative evaluation, jaundice, weight loss, and elevation of CA 19-9 were more frequent in the malignant group. The postoperative early and late complications showed no difference between the two groups and complication rate was generally favorable. Thus, PD can be performed safely for benign diseases that cannot be treated in a conservative fashion and also for other clinically suspicious malignant diseases.
Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Incidence ; Jaundice ; Length of Stay ; Mortality ; Pancreatic Diseases ; Pancreaticoduodenectomy* ; Pancreatitis, Chronic ; Perioperative Care ; Postoperative Complications ; Reoperation ; Retrospective Studies ; Weight Loss