No abstract available.
Classification* ; Diabetes Mellitus* ; Diagnosis*

No abstract available.
Diabetes Complications* ; Humans ; Physicians, Family*

PURPOSE: The relationship between altered HLA expressions and cervical carcinogenesis is not fully elucidated. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The histological evaluation comprised of 21 microinvasive squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), 26 invasive SCC, 3 microinvasive adenocarcinoma and 9 invasive adeno carcinoma of cervix. We used monoclonal antibodys (mAbs) to HLA class I beta2-microglobulin (L368), HLA class I B/C heavy chains (HC-10) and HLA class II heavy chain (LG II-612.14). RESULTS: In tissues from microinvasive SCC, the expressions of B/C heavy chains and class II heavy chain were significantly decreased. The expressions of beta2-microglobulin, B/C chains, and class II heavy chain in SCC were all significantly decreased. Especially, in the metastatic tissue from the same patient, the expressions of beta2-microglobulin and B/C chains showed to be somewhat decreased compared to those in primary tumor tissues, and the expression of class II heavy chain was decreased further than that in primary lesion. In primary invasive adenocarcinoma, the expression of B/C chains was significantly decreased. CONCLUSION: These results suggest that alterations of HLA class I and II expressions seem to occur at a particular step in tumor development and depend on tissue types: when the tumor becomes invasive and starts to metastasize.
Adenocarcinoma ; Carcinogenesis ; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell ; Cervix Uteri ; Female ; Humans ; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms

No abstract available.
Stomach Neoplasms*

No Abstract available.
Korea*

Regulation of respiration differs significantly between wakefulness and sleep. Respiration during wakefulness is influenced by not only automatic control but also voluntary and behavioral control. Sleep is associated with definite changes in respiratory function. With the onset of sleep, voluntary control of ventilation that overrides automatic control during wakefulness becomes terminated. Also ventilatory response to various stimuli including hypoxemia and hypercapnia is decreased. With these reasons respiration during sleep becomes fragile and unstable so that marked hypoxemia can be happened in patients with lung disease especially during REM sleep. Obstructive sleep apnea may also be developed if upper airway resistance is increased in addition to these blunted ventilatory responses.
Airway Resistance ; Anoxia ; Humans ; Hypercapnia ; Lung Diseases ; Respiration ; Sleep Apnea, Obstructive ; Sleep, REM ; Ventilation ; Wakefulness

Backgraund : Most of the inflammatory bullous lesions in bullous pamphigoid(BP) and epidermolysis bullosa acquisite(EBA) demonstrate similar clinical and histological features. However, the specificities of the autoantibodiea reactive to the dermo-epidermal junction antigeins are different. In these two bullouk dermat loses, there are no remarkable differences in symptomaiology, there are no unique predilection sites for the lesions and they do not usually leave scars after nvolution. Considering these similarities, dermatologists could encounter some clinical confuiion in maling a provisional diagnosis. OBJECTIVE: Authors examined three patients of BP with classic inflammatory bullous eruptions and threa patients of EBA with inflammatory bullous lesions to see if here were any differences in the morphology of the immuno-fluorescence(IF) pattern. METHODS: For direct IF of vertical or semi-vertical sections, perilasional skin was obtained in each patient for indirect IF of horizontal or semi-horizonta1 sections, Ig(bound substrates were prepared from all these autoantibody-positive individuals. All specimens veri; observed at 200/400-magnification fields through an ordinary fluorescence microscopy. RESULTS: Patterns of fluorescence observed by direct IF were characterized as thin-linear in BP and thick/coarse-linear in EBA along the basement membrane zone. On the horizontal section preparations in indirect IF, the patterns of fluorescence were clean-linear in E3P hnd more fluffy-linear in EBA at the dermoepidermal junction, These patterns could be recognized aim/larly in the fields of both 200 and 400-magnification, however each minor differences were not easy to distinguish each other. CONCLUSION: The above findings of subtle differences in the pattern of IF may provide some suggestions to the examiners for the need of differential diagnosis in theae riseases.
Basement Membrane ; Blister ; Cicatrix ; Diagnosis ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Epidermolysis Bullosa Acquisita* ; Epidermolysis Bullosa* ; Fluorescence* ; Humans ; Male ; Microscopy, Fluorescence ; Pemphigoid, Bullous* ; Skin

Backgraund : Most of the inflammatory bullous lesions in bullous pamphigoid(BP) and epidermolysis bullosa acquisite(EBA) demonstrate similar clinical and histological features. However, the specificities of the autoantibodiea reactive to the dermo-epidermal junction antigeins are different. In these two bullouk dermat loses, there are no remarkable differences in symptomaiology, there are no unique predilection sites for the lesions and they do not usually leave scars after nvolution. Considering these similarities, dermatologists could encounter some clinical confuiion in maling a provisional diagnosis. OBJECTIVE: Authors examined three patients of BP with classic inflammatory bullous eruptions and threa patients of EBA with inflammatory bullous lesions to see if here were any differences in the morphology of the immuno-fluorescence(IF) pattern. METHODS: For direct IF of vertical or semi-vertical sections, perilasional skin was obtained in each patient for indirect IF of horizontal or semi-horizonta1 sections, Ig(bound substrates were prepared from all these autoantibody-positive individuals. All specimens veri; observed at 200/400-magnification fields through an ordinary fluorescence microscopy. RESULTS: Patterns of fluorescence observed by direct IF were characterized as thin-linear in BP and thick/coarse-linear in EBA along the basement membrane zone. On the horizontal section preparations in indirect IF, the patterns of fluorescence were clean-linear in E3P hnd more fluffy-linear in EBA at the dermoepidermal junction, These patterns could be recognized aim/larly in the fields of both 200 and 400-magnification, however each minor differences were not easy to distinguish each other. CONCLUSION: The above findings of subtle differences in the pattern of IF may provide some suggestions to the examiners for the need of differential diagnosis in theae riseases.
Basement Membrane ; Blister ; Cicatrix ; Diagnosis ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Epidermolysis Bullosa Acquisita* ; Epidermolysis Bullosa* ; Fluorescence* ; Humans ; Male ; Microscopy, Fluorescence ; Pemphigoid, Bullous* ; Skin

No abstract available.
Spondylolisthesis* ; Zygapophyseal Joint*

The results of surgical treatment for isthmic spondylolisthesis in children and adolescent have been well documented. Successful clinical results with fusion can be expected in children and adolescent. But in adults, instability was not the only problem. In addition to their instability, adults were more likely to have degenerative disc changes and nerve compression not solved by fusion only. The role of decompression in the surgical treatment of adult isthmic spondylolisthesis remains controversial. Anterior interbody fusion could obtain indirect decompression of nerve root through widening of intervertebral space. Posterolateral fusion with transpedicular fixation could get direct decompression. So, the purpose of this study is to compare the clinical results of the anterior interbody fusion and the posterolateral fusion with transpedicular fixation for the treatment of isthmic spondylolisthesis in adults. We reviewed the clinical data of 40 adult patients who had been taken operation due to isthmic spondylolisthesis from June, 1977 to June, 1994. The anterior interbody fusion was performed in 20 patients (Group I) and the posterolateral fusion with transpedicular fixation was performed in 20 patients (Group II). The mean age of group I was 44.1 years old (21-62), and that of group II was 41.3 years old (21-57). The gender of patients was 8 males and 12 females in group I, and 5 males and 15 females in group II. The symptoms and signs of group I and II were similar. The duration of follow-up was average 3.6 years (1.1-16 years) in group I and average 2.3 years (1.1-6 years) in group II. The anterior slippage of group I by Taillard method was 16.1% and was corrected into 10.4% after opera-up was average 3.6 years (1.1-16 years) in group I and average 2.3 years (1.1-6 years) in group II. The anterior slippage of group I by Taillard method was 16.1% and was corrected into 10.4% after operation. That of group II was 15.2% and corrected into 9.8% after operation. The fusion rate at 12 months after operation was 90% in group I and 95% in group II. The clinical results were analysed by Kim's criteria that was focused on the improvement of clinical symptoms. The satisfactory results were obtainted in 85 % of group I and 90 % of group II. So there was no significant difference of clinical results between the anterior interbody fusion and the posterolateral fusion with transpedicular fixation for the treatment of isthmic spondylolisthesis in adults (p<0.05).
Adolescent ; Adult* ; Child ; Decompression ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Male ; Spondylolisthesis