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Adenoma* ; Animals ; Benzo(a)pyrene* ; Ganoderma* ; Mice*

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Arthroplasty* ; Knee*

Endometriosis is a relatively common disease, affecting 5-10% of women of reproductive age. But, endometriosis affecting the urinary tract is very rare entity. Involvement of urinary tract by endometriosis occurs in about 1% of women with pelvic endometriosis. Ureteral endometriosis is mostly asymptomatic for a long time, and associated with nonspecific symptoms at clinical presentation and difficult preoperative diagnosis. The involvement of the ureter is rarely intrinsic by implantation of endometrial tissue in the wall of the ureter, but rather due to external compression by adjacent endometriosis and its attendant inflammation and fibrosis. We have experienced a case of right severe hydroureteronephrosis due to ureteral stricture from endometriosis. Laparoscopic nephrectomy was done due to renal atrophy. At the same time, laparoscopic total hysterectomy with right salpingo-oophorectomy was performed because of the uterine adenomyosis and right ovarian endometrioma. So, we report that with a brief review of literatures.
Adenomyosis ; Atrophy ; Constriction, Pathologic* ; Diagnosis ; Endometriosis* ; Female ; Fibrosis ; Humans ; Hydronephrosis* ; Hysterectomy ; Inflammation ; Nephrectomy ; Ureter* ; Urinary Tract

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Cell Line, Tumor* ; Doxorubicin* ; Epirubicin* ; Humans*

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Fluorides* ; Osteoblasts*

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Lymph Nodes ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Paget Disease, Extramammary

The neurotoxic effects of inorganic lead, a common environmental toxic substance, include peripheral neuropathy in adults and encephalopathy in children. Behavioral changes including hyperactivity, short attention span, easy distractibility and impulsiveness have also been noted in patients with chronic lead exposure in childhood. The level of norepinephrine in brain may relate to hyperactivity and chronic lead exposure. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of inorganic lead (PbCl(2)) administration in neonatal rats using immunocytochemical and electron microscopical analysis of norepinephrinergic neurons of the locus ceruleus. Lead chloride were dissolved in distilled water at the concentration of 0.05%, 0.1% and 0.2% and the solution was administered orally via drinking water. After 4, 8 or 12 weeks of continuous administration, all rats were sacrificed and the brain was processed and immunostained with antibody against tyrosine hydroxylase, a rate limiting enzyme of norepinephrine synthesis antibody. The number of tyrosine hydroxylase immunostained cell bodies in locus ceruleus was estimated. Densitometric analysis of tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactive profiles in electron microscopic photographs were done by using image analyzer. The number of tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactive neurons in the locus ceruleus had increased statistically after lead administration. Density of tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactive profiles in the electron microscopy had also increased. Degenerative changes, such as intra-axonal vacuolar space formation, were found within tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactive axons. Somewhat widened intercellular spaces and retracted processes were also found in the region of the locus ceruleus. Increased tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity may correlate with hyperreactivity of lead intoxicated children. Degenerative changes may be responsible for the short attention span, easy distractibility and impulsiveness observed in case of mild lead poisoning.
Adult ; Animals ; Axons ; Brain ; Child ; Drinking Water ; Extracellular Space ; Humans ; Immunohistochemistry ; Lead Poisoning ; Locus Coeruleus* ; Microscopy, Electron ; Neurons* ; Norepinephrine ; Peripheral Nervous System Diseases ; Rats* ; Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase ; Water

PURPOSE: This study was done to evaluate the survival rate and prognostic factors of patients with inoperable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated with radiation therapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A retrospective analysis was undertaken of 62 patients who had inoperable NSCLC treated with radiation therapy from January 1991 through December 1993. According to AJCC staging, stage III A was 14 patients and stage IIIB was 48 patients. Forty Gy to 70.2Gy to the primary tumor site was delivered with daily fractions of 1.8Gy or 2Gy, 5 days per week. Thirty-seven patients received neoadjuvant chemotherapy. RESULTS: Complete, partial and no response to radiation therapy were 3 patients, 34 patients and 25 patients, respectively. The median survival period of all patients was 11 month. One year survival rate, 2 year survival rate and 5 year survival rate for all patients were 45.0%, 14.3%, and 6.0% respectively. The median survival period was 6.5 months in stage IIIA and 13 months in stage IIIB. One year survival rates were 28.6% in stage IIIA and 50.3% in stage IIIB. In univariaite analysis, prognostic factors affecting survival were T-staging, AJCC staging, and response after radiation therapy (P<0.05). Pretreatment peformance status affected survival but was not statistically significant (0.05 Brain ; Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung* ; Chemoradiotherapy ; Drug Therapy ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Liver ; Lung ; Lymph Nodes ; Multivariate Analysis ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Pathology ; Radiotherapy ; Retrospective Studies ; Survival Rate

OBJECTIVES: To compare results of 4 different extraction methods in laparoscopic management of dermoid cyst. STUDY DESIGN: This article is a retrospective, multicenter study for 247 patients with benign dermoid cyst in period of 1995-1998. Dermoid cyst was extracted by Endopouch (99 cases), puncture-irrigation-extraction (69 cases), colpotomy (35 cases), and dermoid cyst as a "pouch bag" (44 cases). RESULTS: We analyzed irrigation amount, operative time, postoperative hospital stay and complications by four different extraction methods. Endopouch extraction method needed less amount of irrigation fluid for cleaning the abdominal cavity and had a shorter postoperative hospital stay (ANOVA, p=0.0001). There were no significant differences in operative times among groups. There were four cases of morbidity in puncture-irrigation-extraction method (6%), three had fever (> 38degrees C) and one intraabdominal abscess. One incisional hernia was noted in "pouch bag" method (2%). CONCLUSIONS: We recommend minimal spillage method for extraction of dermoid and careful irrigation of abdominal cavity to prevent potential risk of chemical peritonitis such as Endopouch, "pouch bag", and colpotomy with the exception of puncture-irrigation-extraction method.
Abdominal Cavity ; Abscess ; Colpotomy ; Dermoid Cyst* ; Fever ; Hernia ; Humans ; Laparoscopy* ; Length of Stay ; Operative Time ; Peritonitis ; Retrospective Studies*

The prevalence of intestinal tuberculosis has been markedly decreased with the development of anti-tuberculous chemotherapy, preventive medicine, vaccinations, early detection and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, and improved eeonomic conditions. Nowadays, intestinal tuberculosis is a disease that should be differentiated from the inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, Behcet's disease, and colon cancer and amebic colitis. This disease also has a new clinical significance in that it has an increased infection rate and unfavorable outcomes in patients infected by HIV or in those who undergo organ transplantation or receive immunosuppressive agents. Tuberculosis of the duodenum was a rare disease and was not reported in the last decade. Moreover Intestinal tuberculosis extensively involving the small bowel including the duodenum and colon was very rarely reported in the various relateid literature. Recently we experienced a case of advanced intestinal tuberculosis involving the duodenum, jejunum, ileum, and colon accompanied by tuberculous cervical and abdominal lymphadenopathies, in a 49-year-old woman who manifested profound general weakness, diarrhea, and marked weight loss. She was diagnosed pathologically by upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, colonoscopy, and fine needle aspiration cytology as well as by roentgenologic examination. The patient was given antituberculous medication which resulted in dramatic clinical improvement. In this report, we present this case with review of the related literature.
Biopsy, Fine-Needle ; Colitis, Ulcerative ; Colon ; Colonic Neoplasms ; Colonoscopy ; Crohn Disease ; Diarrhea ; Drug Therapy ; Duodenum ; Dysentery, Amebic ; Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal ; Female ; HIV ; Humans ; Ileum ; Immunosuppressive Agents ; Inflammatory Bowel Diseases ; Jejunum ; Middle Aged ; Organ Transplantation ; Prevalence ; Preventive Medicine ; Rare Diseases ; Transplants ; Tuberculosis* ; Tuberculosis, Lymph Node* ; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary ; Vaccination ; Weight Loss