PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify the levels of bone mineral density (BMD) and to explain the factors influencing BMD among female college students in Korea. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 144 college women. Lifestyle factors were determined by self-report questionnaire. Body composition was measured by body composition analyzer and bone mineral density was measured by ultrasound bone densitometry. Data were analyzed using SPSS for windows, version 19.0. RESULTS: The mean BMD at calcaneus site was 0.56 g/cm2 (mean T-score=-0.22). The incidence of osteopenia was 21.5%. Factors predicting BMD were menarche age (r=-.22, p=.009) and height (r=-.18, p=.030) with 7% of explained variance. CONCLUSION: These results suggest that health care professionals need to provide young women with program that is intended to affect their intention toward osteoporosis preventive behavior change.
Body Composition ; Bone Density ; Bone Diseases, Metabolic ; Calcaneus ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Delivery of Health Care ; Densitometry ; Female ; Humans ; Incidence ; Intention ; Life Style ; Menarche ; Osteoporosis ; Surveys and Questionnaires

PURPOSE: We retrospectively evaluated the results and complications of urethroplasty in adult patients with hypospadias. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Between February 1997 and June 2007, 21 adult patients with hypospadias underwent urethroplasty. The types of hypospadias were as follows: megameatus intact prepuce(MIP; n=4), subcoronal(n=5), distal penile(n=3), midshaft(n=2), penile(n=2), penoscrotal(n=2), and scrotal(n=3). Among the 21 patients, 13 were in the primary operative (group A) and 8 were in the re-operative(group B). RESULTS: The mean age of the patients was 32.4+/-6.4 years(group A, 33.1+/-6.0 years; group B, 31.1+/-7.8 years). The mean duration of catheter drainage was 8.0+/-2.4 days(group A, 7.9+/-1.8 days; group B, 8.0+/-2.1 days). The surgical procedures included tubularized incised plate urethroplasty(n=14), Thiersch-Duplay(n=3), pyramid(n=3), and transverse preputial island flap (n=1). The overall success rate was 61.9%(group A, 92.3%; group B, 12.5%). Urethrocutaneous fistulas and a meatal stricture occurred in 6 and 1 patients, respectively, with both occurring in 1 patient(38.1% overall complication rate). Fistula repairs were performed successfully in 4 patients and another fistula resolved spontaneously. The meatal strictures were treated with simple dilatation. CONCLUSIONS: Our data demonstrated a very high success rate in the treatment of primary adult hypospadias. And more careful surgical procedure is needed in patients who had history of previous failure more than 2 times because of significantly high complacation rate.
Adult ; Catheters ; Constriction, Pathologic ; Drainage ; Female ; Fistula ; Humans ; Hypospadias ; Male ; Retrospective Studies

Changes in heart rate during reversal of neuromuscular block have been a subject of clinical investigation for manly years. A number of studios have compared the effect used anticholinergica and anticholineaterase. In most studies, the druga were administered separately or simultaneously. Furthermore these studios have ignored any possible affects that the general inhalation aneathetics used during surgery might have had during reversal of neuromusclar Block. Recently, the volatile anesthetics which mar hove a significant role in heart rate during administration of atropine and neostigmine were reported. This study was undertaken to investigate those effects of halothane and enflurane on heart rate chances during reversal of neuromuscular b1ock with glycopyrrolate (0.7 ug/kg) and pyridoatigmine (0.2 mg/kg) which was given either separately or simultaneously have been used on 40 cartes at Depatment of Anesthesiology, Hanyang University Hospital from October 1985 to June 1786. The results were as follows : 1) There were not a significant differences on age, height and weight in compare with subgroups. 2) The changes of systolic and diastolic blood pressure were not a significant statistica-llr in compare with subgroups. 3) The changes of heart rate were showed that Initial increasing and decreasing of base-line level at 10 minutes were statistically significant in compare with subgroups. (p<0.0001) 4) Tachycardia were observed as following sequence; E : G --> P>E:G +P>H : G+P > H : G --> P and bradycardia were as following sequence; H : G --> P>H : G+P>E : G --> P=E : G+P.
Anesthesiology ; Anesthetics ; Atropine ; Blood Pressure ; Bradycardia ; Enflurane* ; Glycopyrrolate* ; Halothane* ; Heart Rate* ; Heart* ; Inhalation ; Neostigmine ; Neuromuscular Blockade* ; Pyridostigmine Bromide* ; Tachycardia

Malignant transformation of mature cystic teratoma is a rare complication. Most com-mon malignant transformation of mature cystic teratoma is squamous cell carcinoma, which represents about 75 to 80% followed by adenocarcinoma in 6 to 7%. It is generally consi-dered that prognosis is extremely poor in case of adenocarcinoma associated with cystic te-ratoma. In this paper, we describe an adenocarcinoma arising from a mature cystic teratoma of left ovary in 47 year old woman. Left ovary was measured 18x15x7cm, 1,295gm in size. Uterus and right ovary were normal appearance. Left ovarian cyst was adhered to omentum and peritoneum. But neither rupture of cyst nor ascites were found at laparotomy. A brief review of concerned literatures was presented.
Adenocarcinoma* ; Ascites ; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell ; Female ; Humans ; Laparotomy ; Middle Aged ; Omentum ; Ovarian Cysts ; Ovary* ; Peritoneum ; Prognosis ; Rupture ; Teratoma* ; Uterus

With the increasing use of CAD-CAM (computer-aided design-computer-aided manufacturing) methods for prosthesis fabrication, utilization of virtual articulators in CAD software has also increased. Among the various methods of positioning the maxilla in a virtual articulator, there are techniques that utilize CBCT (cone-beam computed tomography) or facial scans without the use of a facebow.In this case, a full-mouth rehabilitation was planned for a patient who exhibited multiple crown fractures and occlusal plane disharmony through maxillary complete denture and mandibular fixed prosthetic restoration. Radiopaque markers were added to the duplicated maxillary temporary denture to take closed-mouth impression, which was then scanned and positioned on the CBCT. On CBCT, hinge axis connecting the medial poles of both mandibular condyles along with the Frankfort horizontal plane was designated and utilized to perform virtual articulator mounting. Maxillary complete denture and mandibular fixed prostheses were fabricated, resulting in satisfactory aesthetic and functional outcomes.

With the increasing use of CAD-CAM (computer-aided design-computer-aided manufacturing) methods for prosthesis fabrication, utilization of virtual articulators in CAD software has also increased. Among the various methods of positioning the maxilla in a virtual articulator, there are techniques that utilize CBCT (cone-beam computed tomography) or facial scans without the use of a facebow.In this case, a full-mouth rehabilitation was planned for a patient who exhibited multiple crown fractures and occlusal plane disharmony through maxillary complete denture and mandibular fixed prosthetic restoration. Radiopaque markers were added to the duplicated maxillary temporary denture to take closed-mouth impression, which was then scanned and positioned on the CBCT. On CBCT, hinge axis connecting the medial poles of both mandibular condyles along with the Frankfort horizontal plane was designated and utilized to perform virtual articulator mounting. Maxillary complete denture and mandibular fixed prostheses were fabricated, resulting in satisfactory aesthetic and functional outcomes.

With the increasing use of CAD-CAM (computer-aided design-computer-aided manufacturing) methods for prosthesis fabrication, utilization of virtual articulators in CAD software has also increased. Among the various methods of positioning the maxilla in a virtual articulator, there are techniques that utilize CBCT (cone-beam computed tomography) or facial scans without the use of a facebow.In this case, a full-mouth rehabilitation was planned for a patient who exhibited multiple crown fractures and occlusal plane disharmony through maxillary complete denture and mandibular fixed prosthetic restoration. Radiopaque markers were added to the duplicated maxillary temporary denture to take closed-mouth impression, which was then scanned and positioned on the CBCT. On CBCT, hinge axis connecting the medial poles of both mandibular condyles along with the Frankfort horizontal plane was designated and utilized to perform virtual articulator mounting. Maxillary complete denture and mandibular fixed prostheses were fabricated, resulting in satisfactory aesthetic and functional outcomes.

With the increasing use of CAD-CAM (computer-aided design-computer-aided manufacturing) methods for prosthesis fabrication, utilization of virtual articulators in CAD software has also increased. Among the various methods of positioning the maxilla in a virtual articulator, there are techniques that utilize CBCT (cone-beam computed tomography) or facial scans without the use of a facebow.In this case, a full-mouth rehabilitation was planned for a patient who exhibited multiple crown fractures and occlusal plane disharmony through maxillary complete denture and mandibular fixed prosthetic restoration. Radiopaque markers were added to the duplicated maxillary temporary denture to take closed-mouth impression, which was then scanned and positioned on the CBCT. On CBCT, hinge axis connecting the medial poles of both mandibular condyles along with the Frankfort horizontal plane was designated and utilized to perform virtual articulator mounting. Maxillary complete denture and mandibular fixed prostheses were fabricated, resulting in satisfactory aesthetic and functional outcomes.

With the increasing use of CAD-CAM (computer-aided design-computer-aided manufacturing) methods for prosthesis fabrication, utilization of virtual articulators in CAD software has also increased. Among the various methods of positioning the maxilla in a virtual articulator, there are techniques that utilize CBCT (cone-beam computed tomography) or facial scans without the use of a facebow.In this case, a full-mouth rehabilitation was planned for a patient who exhibited multiple crown fractures and occlusal plane disharmony through maxillary complete denture and mandibular fixed prosthetic restoration. Radiopaque markers were added to the duplicated maxillary temporary denture to take closed-mouth impression, which was then scanned and positioned on the CBCT. On CBCT, hinge axis connecting the medial poles of both mandibular condyles along with the Frankfort horizontal plane was designated and utilized to perform virtual articulator mounting. Maxillary complete denture and mandibular fixed prostheses were fabricated, resulting in satisfactory aesthetic and functional outcomes.

Endoscopic injection therapy using various different agents(ethanol, polidocanol, epinephrine with and without hypertonic saline, etc.) is considered as the least expensive and effective technique to obtain hemostasis in peptic ulcer bleeding, however most of these agents induce tissue necrosis or degeneration. Theoretically the injection of fibrin glue in peptic ulcer bleeding may be safer than that of other agents, however, to date, there have been no data from randomized clinical trials on the comparison of the efficacies between these agents. To compare the hemostatic efficacy between FG[Beriplast P, Behring, Germany] and HSE[3% saline and epinephrine(1: 10,000)], we conducted a prospective, randomized, clinical trial among one hundred twenty-seven patients with peptic ulcer bleeding from March, 1992 to December, 1993 and in whom a visible vessel or active bleeding was identified.
Epinephrine* ; Fibrin Tissue Adhesive* ; Fibrin* ; Hemorrhage* ; Hemostasis ; Humans ; Necrosis ; Peptic Ulcer* ; Prospective Studies*