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Infertility* ; Pregnancy*

Background: Stomach cancer is the most commonly diagnosed malignant tumor in Korea. Early detection by mass screening very important to increase survival rate of stomach cancer, because the prognosis of early gastric cancer is excellent, and specific symptoms and physical findings are rare with early gastric cancer. Methed: 1865 car manufacturing company employees were examinined by gastrofiberscopy at a dispensary of the company from May 6, l992 to July 13, 1992. Results: 1. Number of cases with normal finding was 1262(67.7%), gastritis 422(22.6%), gastric ulcer 47(2.5%), gasrtric cancer 4(0.2%), duodenitis 39(2.1%), duodenal ulcer 63(3.4%), combined ulcer(gastric & duodenal) 2(0.1%,), post operative state 6(0.3%), and others 4(0.3%) in total 1865 examinees. 2. Of 422 cases with gastritis, cases with superficial gastritis were 171 (9.2%), atrophic gastritis 138(7.4%), erosive gastritis 94(5.0%) and hemorrhagic gastritis 19(1.0%). 3. Of 4 cases with stomach cancer, 1 case was advanced stomach cancer and 3 cases were early gastric cancer(two cases of IIc and one case of IIc+III) by macroscopic classification. Conclusion: Mass screening provides an excellent opportunity to detect gastric cancer in populations without symytoms or with nonspecific symptoms. It should be recommended to undergo screening exam for high risk group of stomach cancer.
Classification ; Duodenal Ulcer ; Duodenitis ; Gastritis ; Gastritis, Atrophic ; Korea ; Mass Screening* ; Prognosis ; Stomach Neoplasms* ; Stomach Ulcer ; Stomach* ; Survival Rate

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Epidermal Cyst* ; Nevus*

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Epidermal Cyst* ; Nevus*

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Mesenteric Lymphadenitis* ; Yersinia pseudotuberculosis* ; Yersinia*

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Mesenteric Lymphadenitis* ; Yersinia pseudotuberculosis* ; Yersinia*

With the aging process, the senile lids are manifested by the excessive skin, decreased height of palpebral fissures with interference of the vision. Sometimes these patients often complained the blepharitis on the lateral canthal area and phtophobia. But there are many diseases to differentiate from senile lids such as dermatochalasia, blepharochalasia, hypertrophy of orbicularis oculi, herniation of orbital fat, myasthenia gravis, and blepharoptosis. Blepharospasm must also be differentiated because of sysmptoms similar to the above described senile lids. Essential blepharospam is an idiopathic progressively debilitating desease which involve bilateral spasm of the orbicularis oculi. So just only an conventional blepharoplasty could not get an improvement of symptoms and some times it makes the symptoms worsen. This case report is about blepharospasm patients visiting for blepharoplasty. And the patients got relatively the satisfied results with the injection of botulinum A toxin, aided by neurologist, instead of blepharoplasty. In conslutions, The blepharospasm in required to detect in preoperative evaluation for blepharoplasty. Once the blepharospasm is diagnosed, it is better to cooperate with neurologist and to do the blepharoplasty.
Aging ; Blepharitis ; Blepharoplasty* ; Blepharoptosis ; Blepharospasm* ; Botulinum Toxins ; Botulinum Toxins, Type A ; Humans ; Hypertrophy ; Myasthenia Gravis ; Orbit ; Skin ; Spasm

It is generally accepted that fractures should be treated by closed methods, however for certain femoral fractures in adults, closed methods yields an unacceptable high incidence of nounlon, malunion, delayed unlon, and disability. For these fractures various methods of open reduction and internal fixation have been recommended, but unfortunately, there are frequent reports of complications and failures. The recently developed association for study of Internal fixation (ASIF) compression plating apparatus, seems to satisfy the basic objectives of internal flxatlons: namely
Adult ; Femoral Fractures ; Femur ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Incidence ; Joints ; Walking

Acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy(APMPPE), first described in 1968 by Gass, is chracterized by rapid loss of central vision secondary to multifocal, yellow-white placoid lesions at the level of the pigment epithelium and choroid and significant visual improvement after spontaneous resolution of the active lesions within several weeks or months. Fluorescein angiography shows chracteristically that the chtoidal fluorescence is not visible at the site of acute lesion in the early arterial and arteriovenous phases and become hyperfluorescent due to staining of the lesions in the late venous phases. We experienced a case of acute multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy in 26 years old female patient occurring in both eyes.
Adult ; Choroid ; Epithelium ; Female ; Fluorescein Angiography ; Fluorescence ; Humans

Inhibition of K⁺ outward currents by linopirdine in the outer hair cells (OHCs) of circling mice (homozygous (cir/cir) mice), an animal model for human deafness (DFNB6 type), was investigated using a whole cell patch clamp technique. Littermate heterozygous (+/cir) and ICR mice of the same age (postnatal day (P) 0 –P6) were used as controls. Voltage steps from –100 mV to 40 mV elicited small inward currents (–100 mV~–70 mV) and slow rising K⁺ outward currents (–60 mV ~40 mV) which activated near –50 mV in all OHCs tested. Linopirdine, a known blocker of K⁺ currents activated at negative potentials (I(K,n)), did cause inhibition at varying degree (severe, moderate, mild) in K⁺ outward currents of heterozygous (+/cir) or homozygous (cir/cir) mice OHCs in the concentration range between 1 and 100 µM, while it was apparent only in one ICR mice OHC out of nine OHCs at 100 µM. Although the half inhibition concentrations in heterozygous (+/cir) or homozygous (cir/cir) mice OHCs were close to those reported in I(K,n), biophysical and pharmacological properties of K⁺ outward currents, such as the activation close to –50 mV, small inward currents evoked by hyperpolarizing steps and TEA sensitivity, were not in line with I(K,n) reported in other tissues. Our results show that the delayed rectifier type K⁺ outward currents, which are not similar to I(K,n) with respect to biophysical and pharmacological properties, are inhibited by linopirdine in the developing (P0~P6) homozygous (cir/cir) or heterozygous (+/cir) mice OHCs.
Animals ; Deafness ; Hair Cells, Auditory, Outer* ; Humans ; Mice* ; Mice, Inbred ICR ; Models, Animal ; Tea