No abstract available.
Tendon Injuries* ; Tendons*

No Abstracts Available.
Bronchoscopy*

Soico-medical survey was carried out on six hundred and thirty Korean households in the cities of Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya in Japan from Nov. 1972 to Dec. 1972, and following results were obtained. 1. Age distribution of households showed the highest occurrence in the group of 40 to 49 years of age in the both sexes. Families with five members showed highest occurrence, and the average number of familial members was 5.7 persons per one household. 2. More than half of the householders were some independent enterprisers rather than to be the employees and most of the households had one familial member engaged in more or less liberal profession. 3. 19.4% of households moved into these cities form 1941 to 1945. 4. 40.5% of all the households had their own houses. The possession rate of noe's own house was higher in the households which had long period of residence in Japan. 5. 83.5% of all household had various medical insurance. And the 6.2% of the household which had no insurance stated that the reason for not being affiliated was "because to be the foreigner". Household of shorter dwelling period had less tendency to be affiliated to the various insurances. 6. In 41.3% of all the households, average medical expenditure amounted to 1000-5000Yen per month. And only 25.6% of household stated that they do not worry about the medical expenditure for the futures. 7. 66.3% of households were consulting to medical doctors for their sickness, such as toothache, severe coughing, porfuse sputum., children's fever and stomach pain etc. 8. 59.4% of households were using the facilities of health center services. The health center service was used mainly for individual health service rather than the environmental aspect. And 19.8% of households were not aware of health center activities. 9. It was found that 23.5% of households received the screening test of the adult diseases showed as following; stomach cancer, 8.9%; hypertension, 7.9% ; diabetes mellitus, 2.1% ; and uterus cancer, 1.6%. 10. Birth control was carried out in 17,3% of households but not in 52.5%. The chief reason of birth control was "because of poor maternal health" (40.4%) or " should no be done"(5.4%). 11. Most of them are obtaining the knowledges and information on family plannings, public nuisance problems and nutritions etc. by means of the mass communications, while those on preventing diseases and the environmental hygiene through the administrative organizations.
Adult ; Age Distribution ; Contraception ; Cough ; Diabetes Mellitus ; Family Characteristics ; Fever ; Health Expenditures ; Health Services ; Humans ; Hygiene ; Hypertension ; Insurance ; Japan* ; Mass Screening ; Sputum ; Stomach ; Stomach Neoplasms ; Toothache ; Uterine Neoplasms ; Maternal Health

Cystic malformations of the common bile duct have usually been found to occur in the extrahepatic portion of the common bile duct. A rare type occurs at the terminal end of the common bile duct and lies in the intraluminal portion of the duodedum; this latter type has been called a choledochocele. The lesion is undoubtedly congenital. The case of an extrahepatic choledochal cyst and choledochocele (type IVB choledochal cyst in the Totani classification) in a 63-year-old woman is presented. This is rare, combined choledochal cyst.
Choledochal Cyst* ; Common Bile Duct ; Female ; Humans ; Middle Aged

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

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

No abstract available.
Foodborne Diseases*

No abstract available.
Ambulatory Surgical Procedures*

No abstract available.
Chest Pain* ; Thorax*

The mechanism of serotonin(5-HT) induced contraction and Ca++ mobilization was investigated in right cut from rat aorta. Since it is known that 5-HT can interact with alpha-adrenoceptors in addition to a specific action on 5-HT receptors, the effects alpha-adrenoceptors antagonists on these contractile responses to 5-HT were investigated. The results are as follows : 1) 5-HT produced a strong transient contraction and a concentration dependent contraction. 2) The contractile tension to 5-HT increased with extracellular Ca++ concentration (0.1-5mM). 3) The response produced by rings exposed to Ca++-free PSS was significantly weaker than that produced by rings exposed to calcium containing PSS. When rings of aorta that had been stimulated with 5-HT once for 30 min in Ca++-free TBT were washed 4 times for at least; 20 min in zero Ca++PSS to remove 5-HT, than reexposed to 5-HT in Ca++-free TBT, a phasic contraction was not seen during the second stimulation with 5-HT. 4) The contractile response of 5-HT was inhibited by alpha-adrenergic receptor blocker, phenoxybenzamine and phentolamine. Phentolamine(10(-8)M) antagonized response to high concentrations of 5-HT but responses to low concentrations of 5-HT were not antagonized. 5) The contraction induced by 5-HT in Ca++-free PSS was investigated with phentolamin, methysergide. It was blocked by methysergide but not blocked by phentolamine. 6) These results suggest that 5-HT -induced contraction is the effect of both transmembrane Ca++ influx and the mobilization of intracellular Ca++. Low concentration of 5-HT act on specific 5-HT receptors but high concentration of 5-HT also act on alpha-adreno-receptors.
Animals ; Aorta* ; Calcium ; Methysergide ; Phenoxybenzamine ; Phentolamine ; Rats* ; Receptors, Adrenergic ; Receptors, Serotonin ; Serotonin