Habitual snoring is common among males, especially among those who are overweight, and gets worse with the age. Snoring Is related to physical obstruction of breathing during sleep. This obstruction occurs when the palatal muscles, uvula muscles, and sometimes tonsiles relax during deep sleep and acts as vibrators. We have treated, with laser assisted uvulopalatoplasty(LAUP), twenty patients who suffer from snoring. CO2 laser was used and approximately I5-30 minutes of operation time was required. There were no singnificant complications, such as bleeding and asphyxia, in the 20 patients treated with LAUP. Results observed in the short term showed that 90% of the patients treated with LAUP considered thems to be essentially improved. Two patients developed scars at the posterior pillars. LAUP is a relatively simple and safe method which is performed at the hospital on an outpatient basis under local anesthesia.
Anesthesia, Local ; Asphyxia ; Cicatrix ; Hemorrhage ; Humans ; Lasers, Gas ; Male ; Muscles ; Outpatients ; Overweight ; Palatal Muscles ; Palatine Tonsil ; Respiration ; Snoring* ; Uvula

A 14-year old girl presented with urinary incontinence along with normally secured voluntary voiding. Careful physical examination revealed leakage of urine through a small opening near the vestibule, ventral to the urethral meatus. Cystoscopically, the right ureteral orifice was absent but otherwise normal. Nonfunctioning right kidney was found on excretory urography. A #4 ureteral catheter was inserted into the ectopic opening as high as 10cm, and the retrograde pyelogram showed dilated right ureter ending blindly at the level of lumber vertebra II with stricture at the level of the tip of the catheter. After the right nephroureterectomy, she became dry and was discharged on the 12th postoperative day. The removed kidney weighed only 8 Gm. and pathological diagnosis was congenital hypoplasia of the right kidney with ectopic ureteral opening.
Adolescent ; Catheters ; Constriction, Pathologic ; Diagnosis ; Female ; Humans ; Kidney* ; Physical Examination ; Spine ; Ureter* ; Urinary Catheters ; Urinary Incontinence ; Urography

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Membranes* ; Rupture* ; Sepsis*

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Animals ; Rats* ; Transplants* ; Veins*

The records of fifty two cases of the ileal conduit at the Seoul National University Hospital during a 6-year period from January 1, 1975 to December 31, 1980 were reviewed. 1. There were 42 males and 10 females (ratio of 4.2:1) ranged in age from 5 to 74 years with peak incidence in the 6th decade. 2. The most common indication of this procedure was bladder tumor and other indications were neurogenic bladder, bilateral ureteral stricture, genitourinary tuberculosis, actinomycosis, urethral stricture. urethral cancer and colon cancer. 3. Seventy seven percent of patients with abnormal renal function preoperatively improved postoperatively. 4. Operative mortality was 3.8%. Early complication included wound infection and disruption, sepsis, obstruction and urine leakage in ileoureteral junction, pneumonia, fecal leakage from ileoileal junction, postoperative acute renal failure, bleeding from ileal loop, and urethral bleeding. Late complication included intestinal obstruction, parastromal dermatitis, acute pyelonephritis, ureteral obstruction and incisional hernia. 5. Thirty three of 43 patients developed bacteriuria, 30.3% of the patients showed mixed infection and major causative organisms were Pseudomonas, Enterobacter, E. coli and Serratia.
Actinomycosis ; Acute Kidney Injury ; Bacteriuria ; Coinfection ; Colonic Neoplasms ; Constriction, Pathologic ; Dermatitis ; Enterobacter ; Female ; Hemorrhage ; Hernia ; Humans ; Incidence ; Intestinal Obstruction ; Male ; Mortality ; Pneumonia ; Pseudomonas ; Pyelonephritis ; Seoul ; Sepsis ; Serratia ; Tuberculosis ; Ureter ; Ureteral Obstruction ; Urethral Neoplasms ; Urethral Stricture ; Urinary Bladder Neoplasms ; Urinary Bladder, Neurogenic ; Urinary Diversion* ; Wound Infection

Parapelvic renal cyst, also designated as pericalyceal lymphangiectasis, is an unusual lesion that is usually brought to light during surgery for ureteropelvic junction obstruction or recurrent pyelonephritis. Grossly, the renal pelvis is enveloped by a multilocular cystic mass filled with clear fluid. This lesion is confined to the peripelvic tissues and does not extend into the parenchyma, which, however, may show the effects of hydronephrosis or pyelonephritis. A 50-year-old man presented with hydronephrosis. An ultrasonography revealed hydronephro-sis of the left kidney. Intravenous pyelography and DMSA ("Tc-Dimercaptosuccinic acid) scan showed nonfunctioning kidney of the same side. Simple left nephrectomy was done. The renal pelvis was mildly dilated and a cyst was found buldging into the renal pelvis. The content was watery clear and the cyst was not connected to the renal pelvis or calyces. The cyst was round unilocular and lined by attenuated single layer of endothelial cells. The endothelial cells showed no reactivity to factor-VIII related antigen. With these findings, we concluded that this cystic lesion is basically lymphatic cyst and hydronephrosis was caused by the compression of pelvic out-flow of the kidney.
Male ; Humans ; Cysts

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Cleft Lip* ; Congenital Abnormalities* ; Nose* ; Transplants*

We report three cases of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia in one family. The punctiform, spider-like and nodular telangieectatic lesions were presented in these all patients, the father, son an daughter. But nevus flammeus-like lesion which was the unusual manifestation of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia was noticed on daughters chest. There were no abnormal laboratory findings and no evidence of systemic disease. Histological findings showed only dilated telangiectatic blood vessels in the upper dermis.
Blood Vessels ; Dermis ; Fathers ; Humans ; Nevus ; Nuclear Family ; Telangiectasia, Hereditary Hemorrhagic* ; Thorax

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