No abstract available.
Humans ; Stomach Neoplasms* ; Young Adult*

No abstract available.
Hepatitis B Surface Antigens* ; Interferons* ; Lymphocytes*

Paralytic scoliosis is a disease characterized by its long severe curve and the continuous progression of the deformity even after cessation of growth. It is also resistent to conservative treatment and more patients require surgical treatment than those with idiopathic or congenital curvature. Patients suffer from marked limitation of normal activities in walking and sitting due to imbalanced paralysis of trunk muscles and pelvic obliquity. The indication for the conservative treatment with Milwaukee brace allowing for skeletal growth in a straight alignment is much limited and surgical correction and fusion are almost always indicated even in a young age. This paper was aimed to review our experience with ninteen patients with paralytic scoliosis who were treated with various methods of preoperative corrections and surgery from Jan. 1970 to Dec. 1981 and the following results were obtained. 1. The average age when scoliosis was observed was 7.7 years but the average age of surgery was deferred to 17.7 years. 2. No treatment had been done until most of the patients could no longer maintain balanced posture in sitting and walking due to collapsing spine and marked pelvic obliquity. 3. The causes of paralysis were poliomyelitis in 15 cases, meningocele in two, cerebral palsy and Charcots disease in each one. 4. Preoperative average degree of scoliosis was 107.8° and the final correction was 47.9°(44.4%) with loss of correction 3.6° (3.4%) after 5.6 years of follow-up in average. 5. The more severe the curve was, the more flail was the spine and the more correction could be obtained. 6. Preoperative correction was performed for 16 cases and Harrington instrumentation and posterior fusion were performed for all cases except one meningocele with defect of posterior element in which Dwyer instrumentation was indicated. 7. Breakage of Harrington rod was observed in two cases 1.3 and 3.8 years postoperatively but no problem arose from it in seven and two years of follow-up respectively. 8. Significant pelvic obliquity was observed in seven cases, which were treated by Harrington instrumentation with sacral bar or sacral hook and posterior fusion extended to sacrum.
Braces ; Cerebral Palsy ; Congenital Abnormalities ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Meningocele ; Muscles ; Paralysis ; Poliomyelitis ; Posture ; Sacrum ; Scoliosis ; Spine ; Walking

A 53-year-old man developed some erythematous follicular macules accompanied with tingling sensation on both shoulders. Histologic finding showed a dense lymphocytic infiltrate around the infundibular portion of the follicle, where separation of the dermoepidermal junction was seen. The insect, obtained from the skin lesion, was identified as a larva of an Ap- hid
Aphids ; Cryptococcosis* ; Humans ; Insect Bites and Stings ; Insects ; Larva ; Middle Aged ; Sensation ; Shoulder ; Skin

No abstract available.
Ixodes* ; Tick Bites* ; Ticks*

A case of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis is reported. Most of the alveolar spaces were filled with amorphous deep eosinohilic material which revealed strong positive reaction to periodic acid-Schiff staining. Electron microscopic observation of this material showed numerous lamellar bodies in the alveolar spaces and cytoplasms of alveolar macrophages. A part of them were concentric multilamellated type A lamellar bodies and the other were finger printlike type B bodies. Combined type A and type B lamellar bodies were rarely present. From the above features it is suggested that both type A and B lamellar bodies could be transformed one another and those lamellar bodies may be originated from pulmonary surfactant.

PURPOSE: Intestinal atresia is a well-recognized cause of bowel obstruction in the newborn. The management of neonates with intestinal atresia has improved in recent decades due to refinements in neonatal intensive care, operative techniques, use of total parenteral nutrition (TPN), and neonatal anesthesia. More recently, the survival rate has risen rapidly up to 90%. METHODS: Twenty-five (25) cases of intestinal atresia were encountered at Kwangju-Christian Hospital between January 1985 and December 1998. We reviewed sex, gestational age, body weight, clinical manifestations, associated ano malies, causes, interval to operation, preoperative complications, operative methods, and postoperative complications. RESULTS: Sites involved were the duodenum (n=10; 40%), the jejunum (n=5; 20%), and the ileum (n=10; 40%). The sex distribution was male predominant (1.8:1). The overall survival rate in our hospital was 76%. CONCLUSION: Refinements in neonatal intensive care and perioperative management were important in decreasing postoperative mortality.
Anesthesia ; Body Weight ; Duodenum ; Gestational Age ; Humans ; Ileum ; Infant, Newborn ; Intensive Care, Neonatal ; Intestinal Atresia* ; Jejunum ; Male ; Mali ; Mortality ; Parenteral Nutrition, Total ; Postoperative Complications ; Sex Distribution ; Survival Rate

No abstract available.
Hantaan virus* ; Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome* ; Prevalence*

Coronary arterivenous fistula(CAVF) is an uncommon congenital coronary anomaly-Bilateral CAVFs that originate from both coronary arteries are very rare. Coronary arteriography performed in recent years has clarified the incidence and various features of this lesion. Baim et al.1) reported that only 5% of the coronary artery fistulas arose from bilateral coronary arteries. In this report, we present a case of bilateral coronary artery pulmonary artery fistulas associated with atypical chest pain.
Angiography ; Arteries* ; Chest Pain ; Coronary Vessels ; Fistula* ; Incidence ; Pulmonary Artery

Recent studies indicated that cellular and humoral immune reactions against Afycobacterium leprae may be involved in the development of some of the pathological manifestations. In lepromatous leprosy one might anticipate the formation of immune complexes from concomitant occurrence of large amounts of mycobacteria and corresponding antibodies. Indeed, there are some evidences of an involvement of immune complexes in the pathogenesis of erythema nodosum leprosum(ENL), mainly based on clinical and pathological studies. Some of numerous immune cornplex tests have been applied for the study of leprosy, But no single test has yet been shown to be the rnost sensitive and the most specific for the entire spectrum of circulating immune complexes. Furthermore. Leprosy has been found to differ in its clinical manifestations and immunological behaviors in different geographic areas and races. The authors considered it is necessary to determine the circulating immune complexes in Korean patients with leprosy to evaluate the immune status and the differences in the immunologic reactivity between the lepromatous and the tuberculoid spectrum of Ieprosy.
Antibodies ; Antigen-Antibody Complex* ; Continental Population Groups ; Erythema Nodosum ; Humans ; Leprosy* ; Leprosy, Lepromatous